Sport management founding director instrumental in program’s national reputation for academic rigor, experiential learning, social responsibility Michael D. Veley, M.P.S., Director and Chair of the Department of Sport Management, was named the inaugural Rhonda S. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University’s Falk College. His strategic vision has played an instrumental role in the development and growth of the Falk College’s undergraduate and graduate degrees in sport management while elevating its Department of Sport Management to national prominence. In 2011, Syracuse University alumni David B. and Rhonda S. Falk committed $15 million to SU—one of the largest ever…
Nutrition major Sam Rodgers, who is a long snapper on the SU Men’s football team has launched “Lift for Life”, a fundraiser for brain cancer research, working in in partnership with his teammates and the national organization, Uplifting Athletes. Rogers is the president of the Syracuse University chapter of Uplifting Athletes, a national organization that partners college football teams to help fight rare disease through research. On July 25, the team will host its first Lift for Life weight lifting competition. In May, Rodgers participated in a Mission trip to Haiti to assist with projects and work with children at…
An invited Q and A with Dr. Jaipaul Roopnarine, was featured by Psychology Today. The blog explores how fatherhood differs across cultures and through time. The Q&A highlights the work of Dr. Roopnarine, an international researcher and expert on father-child relationships across cultures, Caribbean families and childhood outcomes, early childhood education in international perspective, children’s play across cultures, immigrant families and schooling in the U.S. He is currently the editor of Fathering Journal and recently published, Issues and Perspectives in Early Childhood Development and Education in Caribbean Countries.
As part of his on-going work in theory development in domestic violence perpetration, professor of social work, Ken Corvo, was awarded a $15,000 grant from the FHL Foundation for the proposal, “The Role of Executive Function Deficits in Domestic Violence Perpetration.” Corvo notes that for nearly 40 years, public policy response to domestic violence has been defined as the socially sanctioned dominance of women by men. The view of patriarchy as the sole cause of domestic violence is the underpinning for a policy/practice paradigm that has dominated the regulatory, legal, and policy discourse of the United States, Canada and other…
Alex Ptachick For one week, from sun up to sun down, he spent his time improving a Haitian orphanage and playing with impoverished children. He welded soccer nets, built a basketball court and dug a 120-yard trench for a power source. He introduced the kids to baseball and outfitted them in sports gear he brought from home. The tears the children shed when he left were a testament to the lasting impact he made on their lives. Sam Rodgers, a junior long snapper for the Syracuse University football team, traveled to Williamson, Haiti to serve the poverty-stricken community for one…
Dr. Kay Moeckly Wiggins, 79, died on Sunday, June 2, at her home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was born February 17, 1934 in Amherst, South Dakota. Kay is survived by her loving children, Bryan and Karis Wiggins of Bainbridge Island and Syracuse, New York, their spouses Audrey Wiggins and Dr. Karl Sperber; her sister and brother-in-law, Joy and Bob Kloster of Vandalia, Illinois; her brothers, Kirk and Randy Moeckly of Britton, South Dakota, and Kirk’s wife Carol Moeckly. Also surviving are her grandchildren, Clayton, Erin, and Haley Wiggins; nieces and nephews, Andrea Horn, Kurt Kloster, Ryan, Steven, and Barbara…
Congratulations Graduates! You did it And in the process, you made us all very proud. A number of people have asked a variety of questions, and I thought the answers might be helpful to the entire group so please, take the time to read it through! I contributed to the Class Act campaign but didn’t get my copy of the DVD at convocation. THANK YOU for your contributions. If you would, please forward Kate Veley, your mailing address and she will forward your DVD to you. I meant to make a contribution to Class Act and never got around to…
Kathleen Glow-Morgan, LCSW-R, social work executive at Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC), will be the VACO acting national director of social work from May 12-24. She has a master of social work from Syracuse University’s School of Social Work and a BS in human development, also from SU. “She has been assigned to this extremely high-level position, which reflects the regard in which she is held here as well as in Washington. We are very proud of her and know she will do a great job,” notes Robert W. McLean, Lt. Col. USMC (Ret.), public affairs officer, Syracuse VAMC.…
The barriers to women’s access to adequate food and nutrition were the focus of a presentation by Anne C. Bellows, Ph.D., Falk College professor of food studies, at the United Nation’s forum series: The Future of Global Food Policy this spring. Bellows’ presentation entitled, “Eating, Feeding, Being Fed: Gender, Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food,” explored why the food and nutrition status of women and girls is not improving despite a global call for the inclusion of women and an international gender perspective. “Institutionalized gender discrimination and structural violence impose barriers to women enjoying the right to adequate…
Several Falk College faculty and staff shared their artistic contributions during the On My Own Time campus art exhibition this spring through a variety of media, including photography, ceramics, drawing and glasswork. Falk College participants included: Alejandro Garcia, Professor, School of Social Work Mary Kish, Internship Coordinator, Child & Family Studies Pamela Paul, Office Coordinator, School of Social Work Susan Scholl, Internship Coordinator, Public Health, Food Studies & Nutrition Jill Sneider, Adjunct Instructor, Child & Family Studies Beth Sotherden, Administrative Assistant, Marriage & Family Therapy A panel of judges from SU and professional artists from CNY Arts (formerly the Cultural…
