Health & Society
Michael Schwartz Receives Fulbright to Study Health Care Access for Deaf Persons in Northern Ireland
Michael Schwartz, associate professor of law and director of the Disability Rights Clinic in the College of Law, has been named a recipient of a research scholarship through the U.S.-U.K Fulbright Awards Program. He will spend the spring 2015 semester…
Psychologist Elected President of Society for Mathematical Psychology
For the last three years, Amy Criss, associate professor of psychology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has served on the board of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. Earlier this month, at the society’s annual meeting in Québec,…
School of Education’s Center on Human Policy awarded $2.3 Million Grant for Community for All Project
The Center on Human Policy (CHP), a Syracuse University-based policy, research and advocacy organization affiliated with the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education in the School of Education, has been awarded a five-year, $2.3 million dollar National Institute on Disability…
Institute on Communication and Inclusion to host Annual Summer Institute July 28-30
The Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI) at the School of Education will host its annual summer institute at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel from July 28-30. This year’s theme, “Envisioning the Future: Writing a New Disability Narrative,” boasts a…
Sociology Professor Looks at the International Student Experience
A recent jump in the number of students from Asia enrolling in American universities has led Yingyi Ma to her latest research and a purpose in thinking about the best experience for international students.
Rosa Leon ’14 Awarded National Institute of Health Research Supplement
Rosa Leon ’14, who graduated this past May with a dual major in biology and neuroscience, received a diversity supplement to Sandra and James Hewett’s National Institute of Health grant to support her research. This supplement will allow Leon to…
A Reason to Smile on South Campus
The recent gift of a Syracuse University alumna and her family is bringing a big smile to the Bernice M. Wright (BMW) Child Development Laboratory School every day. Literally. Earlier this month, a 12-foot blue and orange “happy face”…
World Cup Begins, But Will We Watch?
One of the biggest spectacles in sports is underway in Brazil, as soccer teams representing 32 nations compete in the World Cup. But while the rest of the world watches, soccer fandom in the United States is still lukewarm at…
Reducing Adolescent Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System
A Falk College research team is helping Onondaga County identify risk factors that indicate when children and youth will cross over from the child welfare system into the juvenile justice system. The team includes CFS associate professor Matthew Mulvaney, the…
Blending Passions for Playing, Studying Sports
In the 1990s, many economists disdained sports economics as a field for specialization. But, as someone who had played and watched sports his whole life, Rodney Paul went against that advice he heard in graduate school. Paul had an extensive…