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Real-World Applications
A research team that includes Public Health professors Bryce Hruska and David Larsen is studying how place-based community factors contribute to, or protect against, an elevated risk of firearm violence in certain ethnic neighborhoods. The team’s findings may help shape Syracuse’s I-81 Viaduct Project...
Exploring Careers
The third “Falk in D.C. Career Exploration” trip this past fall to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., had a new twist: For the first time, the trip included separate tracks for health/human services and sport-related careers as the 27 students who participated represented all Falk College programs ...
Ann Litt Speaker Series
Falk College is pleased to welcome Laura Moretti Reece, a certified specialist in sports dietetics, as the featured speaker of the Eighth Annual Ann Selkowitz Litt Distinguished Speaker Series. Her March 26 lecture on athletes with eating disorders is free and open to the public...
Moving Forward, Looking Back
This year's Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Awards program honored La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino founder José Miguel Hernández Hurtado and Falk College School of Social Work Professor Eric Kingson and remembered Social Work Professor Emeritus Alejandro Garcia ...
‘Filled With Hope’
Trans Support Day 2024, which will be held March 23 at Peck Hall, will provide attendees with the opportunity to connect with local transgender-affirming providers and resources and offer “a space filled with hope, positivity, and community support,” says organizer Tristan Martin...
‘Truly Critical Work’
At Peck Hall just north of the Syracuse University campus, student therapists from Falk College’s Department of Marriage and Family Therapy are providing thousands of much-needed therapy sessions to individuals, couples, and families from the Syracuse community...
Desire to Give Back
As a U.S. Army veteran, School of Social Work graduate student Benetta Dousuah is committed to supporting service members and veterans dealing with mental health challenges. “Our mental health is not taken as seriously as it should be,” she says. Read more about Benetta in this SU News story ...
Supporting Veterans
Ken Marfilius, a U.S. Air Force veteran and assistant dean of online education at Falk College, and Nick Amstrong, a U.S. Army veteran and head of public sector at Cabana, created a partnership that will tap into the combined strengths of both organizations to benefit military veterans and Social Work students ...
Special Delivery
On Feb. 13, Social Workers United students delivered Valentine’s Day cards, heart-shaped donuts, and balloons to the residents of Brookdale Summerfield Senior Living. “We were happy to do something special for a group of people who did not expect to be celebrated,” says SWU president Mary Claytor...
‘A True Inspiration’
Seniors Collin Kneiss, Nicholas Kamimoto, Tyler Bolebruch, and Marissa Schneider from Falk College’s Sport Analytics program will travel to Dallas, Texas, Feb. 21-22 to compete in the AXS National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship and defend Syracuse University’s national title...