Human Development & Family Science News
Reimagining Falk College
The David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics will become the David B. Falk College of Sport - a first-of-its-kind college focused exclusively on sport-related disciplines. At the same time, strategies are in place to position the human dynamics academic programs for future success and impact...
Three for One
Three members of the Falk College family will be honored at the One University Awards ceremony April 19: Katherine McDonald (Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction Award), and Ken Marfilius and Sudha Raj (Continuing Excellence category for the Meredith Professorship Program awards)...
Industry Perspective
As the newest members of the Falk College Advisory Board, Andrea Massop Ramos and Tatiana Warren will bring insights from their professional disciplines, forge corporate and community partnerships, and “add valuable contributions in other influential ways,” says Dean Jeremy Jordan...
Global Impact
In this Q&A, Human Development and Family Science Professor Merril Silverstein, the inaugural holder of the Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professorship in Aging, explains why China’s society is rapidly aging and what that phenomenon means to the United States and worldwide...
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 ...
New Dean for Research
Katherine McDonald, Ph.D., has been named Senior Associate Dean for Research and Administration in Falk College, where under her leadership with the Office of Research Development “the College has experienced steady growth in research activity by every measure,” says Dean Jeremy Jordan ...
‘Same Playing Field’
The Sobczak Family Student Support Endowed Fund was created to help Falk College students who are experiencing financial hardship. “This (fund) is to help set them up to be as successful as their peers, and that way everybody is on the same playing field as much as they can be,” Dee Anna Sobczak says ...
Supporting Student Experience
Megan Myers, who has been named Falk College’s new Assistant Dean of Advancement, joined the Falk advancement team in 2018 and has a history of creating partnerships that have grown the College and created new opportunities for students and faculty ...
Remembering Together
In this Q&A, Human Development and Family Science major Emily Shuman ’24 was one of five Remembrance Scholars who discussed the 35th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 bombing that claimed the lives of 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students, on Dec. 21, 1988...
Video: ‘A Bigger Reason’
A Human Development and Family Science graduate who’s now pursuing his master of social work degree, Calen Headley says his “desire to help other people has grown tremendously” since his internship with InterFaith Works last spring...