Public Health News
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 ...
‘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 . . .