Health & Society
The Road to Intellectual Freedom
Renowned classical scholar and author, Michele Valerie Ronnick will present 鈥14 Black Classicists: The Politics of American Learning鈥 on Thursday, Sept. 21, at聽5:30 p.m. in Bird Library鈥檚 Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114). 聽The lecture is part of the 2017…
Shannon Monnat Named Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion
Shannon Monnat, a rural demographer and sociologist whose work focuses on public health, joins the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion. Monnat studies health disparities, stratification and inequality,…
Counseling Center Announces Fall 2017 Group Therapy Options, Including New Groups
The Counseling Center has announced its new and returning group therapy options for students for the fall 2017 semester. Group therapy is an effective and unique therapy option, specifically for college students. The Counseling Center offers popular, yet personal, group…
Join in the Fun of Walktober, Kickoff Event Monday
Walktober is a free,聽monthlong聽initiative聽and competition sponsored by Health Monday 黑料不打烊 and the University Wellness Initiative聽that encourages聽students, faculty,聽staff and family members of SU employees聽to step outside and take聽a walk. The event聽welcomes walkers, joggers, rollers, cyclist and all in between to track…
Arlene Kanter Continues ‘Revolutionary’ Research on Services for Students with Disabilities in Israel
Continuing her engagement with disability rights scholarship and advocacy around the world during her sabbatical year away from the College of Law, Professor Arlene Kanter visited Israel in August 2017 to work on a research project to support students with…
Diversifying Medicine: Triple Triumph Panel at Coming Back Together
Three women physicians, as students, doctors and faculty members, faced discrimination of many kinds.聽These powerful pioneers, Sharon Brangman, Patricia Numann and Ruth Weinstock, created programs that earned the highest levels of national distinction and acclaim. Their work and their names…
黑料不打烊 Shines at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal
More than two-dozen researchers from the Department of Sociology are on the world stage at the American Sociological Association (ASA)鈥檚 112th Annual Meeting in Montreal. The theme of this year鈥檚 meeting is 鈥淐ulture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.鈥…
Mary Kiernan Inducted into American Academy of Chefs
In July, Associate Teaching Professor Mary Kiernan was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs (AAC), the honor society of the American Culinary Foundation (ACF). The ACF was established in 1929. Today, the professional chefs鈥 organization boasts 17,500 members and…
Dessa Bergen-Cico: We are all ‘Same Same, but Different’
Since June 12, Dessa Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health in Falk College, has been participating in a three-month Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The program covers such areas as peace, conflict prevention and resolution. For…
A Decade of PRIDE
Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together 黑料不打烊 undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…