Combining historically accurate military and espionage details, David B. Falk professor of sport management Rick Burton ’79 published The Darkest Mission. The novel follows the crew of a doomed 100th Bomb Group B-17 bomber through a 50-year odyssey targeting one of America’s most honored public figures. With a whirlwind plot, it falls to a South Boston detective, turning to an NFL-linebacker-turned-priest, to explain one clue (a Bible verse that does not exist). It leads to a series of gritty homicides and a puzzle-filled plot that ends with a blazing conclusion.
Sport management instructor Patrick Ryan serves as a community advisor for the Syracuse City School District’s Institute of Technology. This program is focused on developing the skills that will prepare Syracuse high school students for future careers in Central New York.
Falk College faculty and current students welcomed potential graduate students interested in long-standing graduate programs in child and family studies, public health, marriage and family therapy, nutrition science and dietetics, and social work during a special Fall Information Session for graduate studies on Saturday, November 5 in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building. Detailed information was provided on the College’s newest 36-hour graduate program: the M.S. in Global Health. Admissions was available at the information session to meet with students and provide information on academic programs, scholarships and housing.
Gina Pauline, assistant professor, Department of Sport Management was recognized with the Syracuse University 2011 Teaching Award. The program recognizes excellence in teaching by non-tenured faculty and adjunct and part-time instructors. Recipients are selected for teaching innovation, effectiveness in communicating with students and the lasting value of courses. Pauline, joined the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics in August 2006. And in 2010, she was named David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics Faculty Member of the Year. As an instructor for principles of sport management and event management, among other sales-, marketing- and law-related…
The Syracuse Crunch hosted the American Hockey League’s first outdoor hockey game, the Mirabito Outdoor Classic, against the Binghamton Senators on February 20 at the New York State Fairgrounds. Forty-five students in assistant professor of sport management Gina Pauline’s SPM 324—Sport Event Sponsorship and SPM 444—Sport Marketing Management classes played a role with Crunch staff in all facets of the event. The students from the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics’s Department of Sport Management assisted in areas including ticketing, hospitality, VIP operations, marketing, promotion, parking and sales. Earlier in the month, Pauline and her students enrolled…
