Department News
Elder Abuse and Restorative Justice Webinar
Syracuse University Professors Discuss Elder Abuse and Restorative Justice on Jan. 26. Older adults are vulnerable to abuse and financial exploitation, particularly if they are socially isolated, and standard approaches often intensify that isolation by severing family relationships to prevent further abuse...
Social Work Students ‘Rise Above’ This Holiday Season
Falk College’s relationship with Al-amin Muhammad started nearly four years ago, when he received a Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Award. This holiday season, the School of Social Work had another surprise for Muhammad...
Introducing the Wastewater Surveillance Network
The wastewater surveillance network is another tool in the arsenal to combat the omicron variant of COVID-19. Attend the webinar to learn how the network will work across New York State and the health benefits derived from it...
Falk College alumna to serve as Syracuse City Clerk
Patricia “Katie” McBride G’21 will be elected the first African-American woman City Clerk for the City of Syracuse by the Syracuse Common Council and will begin her service on January 5, 2022. McBride earned a Master of Arts degree in human development and family science December 2021...
Future medical doctors devoted to health equity
Public health empowered future physicians, Khan and Patel, to promote health equity while pursuing their careers in medicine. Patel says "Health should not be a consequence of race, geographic location, gender, socioeconomic status, or sexuality..."
Training for the future
Exercise science majors hit the ground running, prepare for careers in physical therapy Exercise Science majors Julia Geronimo (left) and Ally Krevolin (right) are both interns at the Institute for Human Performance at Upstate Medical University. Future physical therapists Julia Geronimo ’24 and Ally Krevolin ’23 are jump-starting their careers with a foundation in exercise science. As exercise sc…
Growing Food and a Future
A dual major and Lender Center fellow infuses her academic journey with a passion for community farming and food security. The research she is doing helps organizations collaborate on new food security solutions...
Heart of the Field
Former U.S. Air Force explosive technician, and Nutrition Science graduate student, Justin Pascual, plans to become a naval aerospace and operational physiologist, to help prepare military members for the physiological stressors of a combat-based career...
Earning four degrees with six children and working full-time
If you can dream it, you can do it. If this mom can do it, you can too!—After being a stay-at-home mom for 15 years, Shirley earned an associate, bachelor and master in social work and a C.A.S. in women’s and gender studies. A mother of six, and working full-time, she overcame many obstacles...