Public Health News
Class of 2024 Public Health Awards
The Department of Public Health recently announced its Class of 2024 undergraduate and graduate award winners. And the winners are...
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...
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 ...
High Honors
Falk College boasts a robust, collaborative research community in which students play an active role. Danny Baris (sport analytics), Sarah Dellett (nutrition science), and Mingxuan (Jessica) Li (public health) are three Falk students who have been recently honored for their research achievements...
Navigating New Horizons
U.S. Navy veteran Raul Rosique Jr., who’ll graduate from Falk College this spring with a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science, gravitated toward physical therapy after breaking his leg. “Physical therapists changed my whole perspective of health and exercise,” Rosique says ...
Keeping Schools Open
According to a ground-breaking study led by Falk College Department of Public Health Chair and Professor David Larsen, wastewater surveillance is a potent tool in understanding COVID-19 transmission within school settings and can help manage the public health response to COVID at schools...
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 ...