Public Health News
‘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 ...
Making a Safer World
Department of Public Health Chair and Professor David Larsen is in Austria for the Spring 2024 semester after he received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach and continue his wastewater surveillance research at the Medical University of Innsbruck ...
Joining the Leadership Team
As Falk College’s Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Department of Sport Management Professor Mary E. Graham will guide all efforts related to faculty development and success—from hiring to retirement—and work closely with university offices and leadership across campus...
Staying Ahead of COVID
According to a Syracuse University research team led by postdoctoral researcher Dustin Hill, testing wastewater for COVID-19 provides a better forecast of new COVID hospital admissions than clinical data. That information will help hospitals for planning and resource allocation when new cases surge...
From the Finish Line to the Classroom
What do marathons, Pearl Jam, and the Phillies have in common? Jeremy S. Jordan, the new dean of the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. Learn more about Dean Jordan in this Q&A from the Syracuse University central marketing team . . .
A Groundbreaking Approach
Public Health Professor Dessa Bergen-Cico, coordinator of the addiction studies program in Falk College, is the co-principal investigator of a research project that’s exploring how the combination of AI and mindfulness-based practices can help people in treatment for opioid use disorder . . .
Dance of Hope
Grace Brashears is a double major at Falk (HDFS and public health) who was recently named the youngest executive director in the 10-year history of OttoTHON, Syracuse University’s 12-hour dance marathon that raises money for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital...
Creating Inclusive Communities
The 2023 AAIDD Research Award that Falk College Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Public Health Katherine McDonald received in June "recognizes her lengthy track record of interest and accomplishment in the field of intellectual disability"...
Real-World Experience
The International Drug Policy Academy, which was co-developed by public health professor Dessa Bergen-Cico, is one of several unique opportunities for students to obtain global experience that exposes them to new ways of thinking about substance abuse and addictive behaviors...