Department News
Creating Change
Spiking housing costs and stagnant wages for working-class and lower-income workers can create economic disparity and hardship. How to address this issue is the theme of an Oct. 30 Lender Center for Social Justice event in Washington featuring Food Studies Associate Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern...
Impact of ‘Social Factors’
In this Q&A with SU News, Human Development and Family Science Assistant Professor Catherine García discusses her award-winning research that explores why the fastest-growing segment of older adults in the U.S.—those of Hispanic/Latine origin—are at higher risk for chronic diseases...
Breaking the Stigma
As the first social work student to intern with the Syracuse University Athletics Department, Rachel Hamilton G’24 organized several mental health outreach initiatives. Now, Hamilton is working with Social Work Professor Ken Marfilius to forge new ground in the emerging field of sport social work...
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...
Video: Marriage and Family Therapy M.A. Online Students
During the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy in-person residency in April, we caught up with master of arts online students Stacey Martha McDonald Lowe and Ali Asad Somjee to see why the program was the perfect fit for them...
Lighting a Spark
Through conversations with her family and Falk College advisor Colleen Cameron, and through out-of-classroom experiences, Raven Campbell has transformed her passion for working with children into her career goals of becoming a child life specialist and developmental pediatrician …
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"...
Vital Voice
Qingyang Liu, a graduate student in the Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) in Falk College, has been named graduate student representative to the Syracuse University Board of Trustees for the 2023-24 academic year. . .
Highlighting DEIA Initiatives
From using satire as a means for social change to better understanding the teachings of the Haudenosaunee, the breadth of DEIA efforts across Syracuse University will be on display at The D.E.I.A. Symposium Oct. 3. HDFS Associate Professor Kamala Ramadoss is one of the event’s organizers...
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...