Health & Society

Child and family studies Ph.D. student Elif Dede Yildirim, working with Jaipaul Roopnarine, the Jack Reilly Endowed Professor of Child and Family Studies, has received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children…

Alejandro Garcia was honored recently with the State Society on Aging of New York’s (SSANY) 2014 Advocate for Older Adults Award. The Advocate for Older Adults Award recognizes a record of planning, policy development and advocacy work. Garcia, who currently…

Jonathan Preston G’02, G’08 may be new to the Syracuse University faculty, but he’s no stranger to the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). Preston first stepped onto campus as a graduate student 13 years ago. Today, he is…

Thanks to farmers’ markets, farm-to-school programs and community-supported agriculture, locally grown foods are more readily available—and more in demand. People want to know where their food comes from. How is it grown? What steps are involved in its processing? Evidence…

In honor of her dedication and service to Syracuse University and its students for more than 40 years as an educator, researcher, scholar, mentor and friend, the Falk College announced the establishment of the Dr. Alice Sterling Honig Endowed Scholarship…

In the 1990s, Falk College sport management professor, Chad McEvoy was a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, working closely with William A. Sutton, a distinguished academic and practitioner recognized for his visionary leadership connecting  the sport marketing…

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, will honor Falk College Associate Professor of Nutrition Sudha Raj with two awards at the 2014 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) to be…

Professor R. David Lankes shares a personalized, humor-filled account of his experience being diagnosed with and living with cancer over the last two-plus years in his new book “The Boring Patient.”

Aesoon Park, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a three-year, $400,000 grant award from the National Institute of Health. A clinical psychologist and member of Syracuse’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, she will…

Power plant standards to cut climate-changing carbon emissions will reduce other harmful air pollution and provide substantial human health benefits, according to a new study released Sept. 30 by scientists from Syracuse, Harvard and Boston universities. The research shows that,…