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2018-2019: A Year In Review
The 2018-2019 Food Studies graduate program newsletter shares highlights from important guest speaker series, features graduate student work and awards, shares alumni news and gives a sampling of photos from the year's events.
Falk College, REU Program Host Discussion Series for PTSD Awareness Month in June
To educate the local community about issues related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Syracuse University’s Falk College, is offering a discussion series during the month of June, which is designated as National PTSD Awareness Month. PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events, such as military combat, natural disasters, te…
Veterans, health and society
A recent edition of WCNY’s Connect New York, “Beyond PTSD: Veterans, Health & Society,” interviewed visiting teaching professor Kenneth Marfilius. The session, led by broadcast journalist Susan Arbetter, focused on the mental health challenges of veterans. Besides Dr. Marfilius, experts included Derek Coy, a Veterans’ Health Officer with the New York State Health Foundation, Melissa Spicer, Presid…
Congratulations Falk College Class of 2019
On Saturday, May 11, 2019 Falk College held its Convocation celebrating the Class of 2019 that included 494 degree candidates representing six academic departments and schools, and seven degree programs including: 5 Ph.D. students, 299 undergraduates, 155 master’s candidates, and 35 students earning certificates of advanced study. In her remarks, Dean Diane Lyden Murphy encouraged graduates to “be…
Falk College announces faculty promotions and tenure awards
Falk College is pleased to announce several faculty promotions and tenure awards approved at the May 2019 Board of Trustees meeting, including: Dessa Bergen-Cico, promoted to full professor, Public Health David Larsen, promoted to associate professor with tenure, Public Health Lutchmie Narine, promoted to full professor, Public Health Evan Weissman, promoted to associate professor with tenure, Foo…
Social Work Student Leads On and Off the Ice
As Allie Munroe graduates with a bachelor’s degree in social work from the Falk College, she looks back with deep gratitude on her experience as a student and a four-year defensive player on the Syracuse ice hockey team. After leading Syracuse University to its first NCAA tournament, Allie Munroe charts a course to play professional ice hockey. Allie Munroe grew up at the hockey rink and soccer fi…
Inaugural Berlin Sport Analytics Symposium Highlights Rising Importance of Data in Sport
“Calculating the Future of Sports Through Analytics” was the featured theme of the Inaugural Andrew T. Berlin Sport Analytics Symposium, hosted by Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics on April 3 at the Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago.
O’Donnell Honors Family Heritage in Military Service, Now Serves Fellow Veterans Through Social Work
Everyone remembers where they were when they first heard the news. It was a day that lives were changed forever. Yet in the midst of devastating loss on Sept. 11, 2001, many responded in the spirit of courage and hope. Nathan O’Donnell ’20 was one of them. A high school student at the time, O’Donnell decided to join the U.S. Air Force upon graduation. “I felt called to serve my country,” he says.…
Falk College honors faculty for excellence in research, service and teaching
Professors Rashmi Gangamma, Tracey Musarra Marchese, Yvonne Smith receive 2019 Falk College Faculty of the Year Awards Faculty members from the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy and School of Social Work were honored for excellence in teaching, research and service with 2019 Falk College Faculty of the Year Awards on May 3. The honorees, who are nominated by their peers for outstanding per…
Congratulations to the Class of 2019
As Dean of the Falk College, I would like to congratulate our graduates, the Class of 2019. Each of you has made a lasting impact on our community during your time here at Falk. Now, we wait with great excitement to see how you will change the world as alumni. Limitless opportunity lies ahead—pursue it with confidence. Good luck and Go Orange!