The Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS) recently announced eight high-achieving students were inducted into Kappa Omicron Nu, Omicron Alpha Iota chapter honor society for CFS majors at Syracuse University, including: Emily Chase Elizabeth Fahey Kasey Leeds Anita Robinson Fatima Saunders Allison Schwartz Brady Tannehill Allie Weiss The mission of Kappa Omicron Nu is to develop empowered leaders who use an integrative approach to enhance quality of living through excellence in scholarship, leadership, and research. Students were selected on the basis of academic excellence in the major. The honor society’s purpose is to recognize and support academic excellence while…
Food studies learning assistant and Syracuse University graduate student, Cody Allen Dedischew, was the suite chef for the UPS and Rolex suites during the 2015 Master Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. In his senior year of college at Johnson and Wales University, he had the opportunity to go with a group of students to work the Master. He had to interview with the Augusta National HR staff and chef. He was chosen to work as a cook that first year. By the end of the tournament that year, he was asked to return as a sous chef and…
On April 16 the Department of Child and Family Studies hosted its internship poster session for students taking CFS 494 where they share their experiences of putting theory into practice via their trifold presentations. Many participating students have had two separate experiences while others stayed at the same placement for both courses, each producing a rich and informative practicum experience.
On April 16, child and family studies majors were honored for excellence during a special ceremony. Each award presented is unique and recognizes students for academic success as well as promise and potential in the program of study or future professional goals. This year’s honorees include: Name, Award Title Shinichi Hirata, Bernice M. Wright Memorial Award Ju-Ting Cheng, Outstanding Freshman Award Ivy Liu, Outstanding Sophomore Award Wednesday Shedd, Shannon Davis Memorial Award Rebecca Rothstein, Elizabeth Manwell Memorial Award Blake Slater, Ruth Tolley Award Sara Mileski, Selleck Award Abigail Hard, Florence B. Potter Memorial Award
As they’ve done in previous years, Falk students and their peers on campus, working with faculty and staff, have partnered with McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center to bring attention to the issue in a visual way: by planting pinwheels on campus. Earlier this month, 720 pinwheels were installed on the lawn between the Schine Student Center and Newhouse buildings, with each pinwheel signifying a safe and healthy childhood.“It’s a very striking visual for a very important cause,” according to Brooke Tyszka, academic counselor for Falk College student services. Students in Kappa Omicron Nu, the national honor society program for Child and…
Recent research conducted by two Syracuse University faculty members, working collaboratively with community agencies, indicates the most important issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified (LGBTQ) youth in the Central New York (CNY) community are bullying, family acceptance, self-acceptance, and having to leave home. Additionally, the two issues believed to most likely put LGBTQ youth at risk of homelessness are parental physical or emotional abuse and being forced to leave home because of LGBTQ identity. The study’s complete findings will be shared at a public meeting on the housing experiences of LGBTQ youth from the CNY community on Monday,…
Sixteen students in Chef Chris Uyehara’s Pacific Island Fusion Cuisine hosted a luau on April 19 during a course-required workshop at the Lyman Hall Café and teaching kitchens. “Students learn about this culture by preparing and eating its foods,” Uyehara notes. During the course, students learn from Uyehara and from one another. At the end of each prepared meal, the students and instructor share it together. “It is the best way to learn about community and how to teach the next generation,” says Uyehara.
Each year, 35 Syracuse University Remembrance Scholarships are awarded to undergraduate students on the basis of distinguished academic achievement, citizenship, and service. Three Falk College students have been awarded this prestigious honor for the 2015-16 academic year: Julie Bengis, Sport Management Chistina LiPuma, Nutrition Hannah Visnosky, Sport Management “To be named a Remembrance Scholar is one of the highest honors at Syracuse University that recognizes students’ outstanding academic achievement and service, which is consistent with the Falk College’s priorities for all students. We are very proud of Julie, Christina and Hannah—and all of this year’s scholars,” notes Diane Lyden Murphy,…
Students and their faculty-staff advisors in Falk College were recognized with three 2015 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship during a ceremony April 22. The Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship are given each year to Syracuse University students and groups who exemplify the highest ideal of sustained, quality engagement with citizens in our community. Falk College honorees include: Student Organization—Sport Management Club Innovation in Academic Engagement—FST 402: Feeding the City Legacy Award for Academic Engagement—SWK 435, 445, 671, 672, 771, 772/BSSW seniors, MSW graduate students Read more about the award’s ceremony
In April, the Food Studies program co-sponsored a screening of the documentary, Food Chains: A Revolution in America’s Fields with The Labor Studies Working Group (an interdisciplinary group of scholars from across campus) and the Workers Center of Central New York, to highlight labor issues in the food system. Over 70 people came to the event, which included a discussion with local farmworkers in the CNY region. According to assistant professor of food studies, Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, “the film opened many people’s eyes to the ways that immigrant workers are both exploited by and resisting our industrial food system.” The…
