Colloquiums

The Falk College Office of Research Development sponsors activities and events, including faculty retreats, informational seminars and opportunities to learn about faculty research and scholarship in their areas of expertise. Below is a listing of historical Research Colloquiums:

Browse by Year:

1 2021 | 2 2020 | 3 2019 | 4 2018 | 5 2017 | 6 2016 | 7 2015 | 8 2014 | 9 2013 | 10 2012 | 11 2011

2021

Using Social Media to Grow Public Visibility & Academic Collegiality
Presented by: Jennifer Stromer-Galley (Professor & Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs)
Date: October 22, 2021

Falk College Women Full Professors and Full Professors of Color: Setting the Goal, Handling the Challenges, and Strategies for Success 
Moderator: Deborah Monahan
Panelists: Dean Murphy, Dessa Bergen-Cico (PHP), Ambika Krishnakumar (HDFS), Lutchmie Narine (PHP), and Carrie Smith (SWK)
Date: March 12, 2021

Community-based Research on COVID-19 and Well-being while Training Undergraduate Students
Presented by: Joel Lalone (SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at SUNY Jefferson Community College & Visiting Scholar in the Department of Public Health at Falk, collaborating with Dr. David Larsen)
Date: April 23, 2021

2020

Open Access publishing
Presented by: Scott Warren (SU Library) and Anne Rauh (SU Library)
Date: December 11, 2020

Early Identification of Cognitive Impairment among Vulnerable Older Adults Living at Home
Presented by: Maria Brown
Date: Sep 25, 2020

Re-envisioning Validity
Presented by: Karen Kirkhart
Date: February 14, 2020

Coping with Losses: Need Un-fulfillment and its Influence on Sport Consumer’s Temporal Psychological Well-being (SHDI Seed Grant)
Presented by: Jamie Kim
Date: January 17, 2020

2019

Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (FNIR) to Measure Neural Changes Related to Mindfulness-Based Practice
Presented by: Dessa Bergen-Cico, Rachel Razza, Mark Costa
Date: November 1, 2019

A Logistic Regression Analysis of Reported Concussion Risk among NCAA FBS Football Players
Presented by: Brittany Kmush, Bhavneet Walia, and Shane Sanders
Date: October 25, 2019

Agricultural Guestworkers and the New Immigrant Economy
Presented by: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Date: October 25, 2019

Wins Above Replacement and the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Vote: A Natural Experiment
Presented by: Shane Sanders, Sport Management
Date: September 20, 2019

Conserving Biodiversity while Promoting Stable Agroecosystems in the Galapagos Archipelago
Presented by: Margaret Voss, Nutrition Science & Dietetics
Date: March 1, 2019

Investigating Fishing with Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets in the Upper Zambezi River
Presented by: Rick Welsh, Public Health and David Larsen, Public Health
Date: February 1, 2019

2018

Risk Factors for Short and Long Term Adverse Health Outcomes among College and Professional American Football Players
Presented by: Brittany Kmush, Public Health; Arthur Owora, Public Health; Shane Sanders, Sport Management; Bhavneet Walia, Public Health
Date: September 11, 2018

Big Data and Social Policy: Current and Future Developments
Presented by: Dr. Philip Gillingham, The University of Queensland, Australia
Date: October 24, 2018

2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: Building Korea’s Brand Personality and Equity with the Olympic Brand
Presented by: Jeeyoon Jamie Kim, Sport Management
Date: October 19, 2018

Maternal & Parental Engagement and Children’s Cognitive & Social Skills in Caribbean Countries
Presented by: Jaipaul Lalla Roopnarine, Pearl S. Falk Endowed Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Date: September 10, 2018

National Longitudinal Surveys79 Children and Young Adults: An Overview
Presented by: Bhavneet Walia, Instructor, Falk College Office of Research Development / Economics
Date: April 20, 2018

Rural Behavioral Health Services: Crisis and Contradiction in the Age of Managed Care
Presented by: Matthew Spitzmueller, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Date: April 13, 2018

Autonomy and Community Inclusion Under French Disability Rights Law: A Contrast to the U.S.
Presented by: Nancy Mudrick, Professor, School of Social Work
Date: April 6, 2018

Drugs, Trauma and Public Policy: Ground Breaking Research in Georgia’s Post-Soviet Era
Presented by: Dessa Bergen-Cico, Associate Professor, Public Health, Food Studies, and Nutrition
Date: April 6, 2018

Family Size, Adult Children’s Socioeconomic Achievement, and Disability among Older Adults in China
Presented by: Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging Studies, Human Development & Family Science / School of Citizenship and Public Affairs / ASI
Date: March 23, 2018

2017

School Climate Survey: Enhancing Student Achievement
Presented By: Kendra DeLoach McCutcheon, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Date: November 17, 2017

National Longitudinal Surveys:  An Overview
Presented By: Bhavneet Walia, Affiliated Research Associate, Falk College Office of Research Development
Date: October 27, 2017

Using Textual Analysis Software to Measure Team Brand Association Networks
Presented By: Patrick Walsh, Associate Professor, Sport Management
Date: October 20, 2017

The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability
Presented By: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor, Food Studies
Date: October 20, 2017

Culture, Context, and the Exploration of Identity Among Middle Eastern Families
Presented By: Rashmi Gangamma, Assistant Professor, Marriage and Family Therapy & Ambika Krishnakumar, Professor & Department Chair, Human Development and Family Science
Date: October 13, 2017

The Migration Wave in Europe: Resulting Challenges for Public Health and Social Service Systems
Presented By: Elena Hedoux (Pompidou Group) & Thomas Kattau (Pompidou Group)
Date: September 26, 2017

Acculturation, Work-family Interface, Dietary Patterns and Health Among South Asian Immigrants
Presented By: Kamala Ramadoss, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science & Sudha Raj, Associate Professor, Nutrition
Date: March 3, 2017

Hiring, Training and Retaining Competent Direct Care Workers in Youth Residential Treatment: An Ethnographic Study of Workforce Issues in a High-Stress Field
Presented By: Yvonne Smith, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Date: March 3, 2017

Understanding Collaborative Mental Health Policy Reform: Toward Recovery-Oriented Care
Presented By:  Matthew Spitzmueller, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Date: February 3, 2017

Addressing Disparities in Food Access through Mobile Markets: An Exploratory Survey and Research Agenda
Presented By: Evan Weissman, Assistant Professor, Food Studies
Date: February 3, 2017

2016

International Innovations in Child Advocacy
Presented By:  Philipp Sandermann, Ph.D.
Date: September 20, 2016

Hot Topics in Intellectual Property in SU/Falk College Faculty and Researchers
Presented By: Jennifer Crisp, Director, Office of Technology Transfer and Industrial Development, SU
Date: Friday, March 25, 2016

2015

Photo Voice Research Methodology
Presented By: Sandy Lane, Professor and Mary Ann Middlemiss, Associate Professor, Public Health
Date: Friday, November 13, 2015

Housing and LGBTQ Youth: A Mixed-Methods Community Needs Assessment
Presented By: Coolhart Deborah, Marriage and Family Therapy and Brown Maria, School of Social Work and Aging Studies Institute
Date: Friday, November 06, 2015

Family Experiences of Iraqi Refugees Resettled in Syracuse, NY
Presented By: Rashmi Gangamma, Marriage and Family Therapy
Date: Friday, November 06, 2015

Addressing Sanitation in Zambia: Leveraging Traditional Leadership and Modern Technology to Improve Health
Presented By: David Larsen, Pulic Health
Date: Friday, October 30, 2015

Cultivating Food Justice: Using Photovoice to Document the Outcomes of a Pilot Food System Intervention Program for Youth
Presented By: Evan Weissman, Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
Date: September 18, 2015

The Development and Evaluation of a Mind-body Awareness Intervention to Enhance Self-Regulation as a Mechanism to Promote Healthy Weight among Young Children
Presented By: Lynn Brann , Dessa Bergen-Cico, Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition and Rachel Razza, Child and Family Studies
Date: September 18, 2015

How Ukrainian Social & Public Health Interventions are Adapting to War-related Environment: Challenges & Opportunities
Presented By: Yuliya Chorna, M.P.A., M.S.W., Executive Director and Iuliia Pylypas, Program Developer for the International HIV/AIDS & TB Institute
Date: March 31, 2015

Evaluating School-Based Interventions: The Lions Quest Program
Presented By: Mine Göl-Güven, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Boğaziçi University
Date: March 20, 2015

Institutional Review Board (IRB) policies, procedures and deadline dates
Presented By: Tracy Cromp, Director with Jeanne Diederich, Administrative Specialist, Office of Research Integrity and Protections
Date: February 27, 2015

Negotiating a Global Sustainable Development Agenda: the View from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Presented By: Chantal Line Carpentier, Sustainable Development Officer Division for Sustainable Development Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations
Date: February 13, 2015

2014

A Global Assault on Dengue
Presented By: Dr. Mark Polhemus, Director of the Center for Global Health & Transitional Science SUNY Upstate
Date: Friday, November 21, 2014

Social Networks & Successful Aging within a Thai Context
Presented By: Lutchmie Narine, Associate Professor, Public Health, Food Studies & Nutrition with Ambika Krishnakumar, Associate Professor, Child & Family Studies
Date: October 24, 2014

Exploring the Experiences of Children with Trangender Parents: Family Dynamics, Challenges and Protective Factors
Presented By: Deb Coolhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Marriage & Family Therapy
Date: October 3, 2014

Work-family issues in the Context of Immigration: The Experience of Asian-Indian Immigrants
Presented By: Kamala Ramadoss, Assistant Professor, Department of Child & Family Studies
Date: October 3, 2014

Developing a Dengue Early Warning System in Coastal Urban Ecuador
Presented By: Anna M. Stewart, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Center for Global Health and Transitional Science at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Date: September 26, 2014

Full-time, Part-time and Just-About-No Time Dads: Race, Class, Employment & Different Models of Fathering Infants
Presented By: Margaret Usdansky, Research Associate, Professor, Child & Family Studies
Date: April 4, 2014

Strategies and Approaches for Securing Foundation Funding
Presented By: Melissa Whipps, Assistant Director Foundation Relations
Date: March 28, 2014

Building on the Promise of Children and Families
Presented By: Brian McKee and Kevin Slimmer from Elmcrest Children’s Center
Date: January 31, 2014

2013

Remittances from Migrant Children and Quality of Life of Older Adults in Rural China
Presented By: Merril Silverstein, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work
Date: November 1, 2013

Neighborhood Violence & Trauma: A University/Community Dialogue
Presented By: Local Community Members
Date: October 4, 2013

Long-Term Effects of Sleep Habits and Learning related Behaviors
Presented By: Eunjoo Jung, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Child & Family Studies
Date: September 13, 2013

A Case Study Using Qualtrics
Presented By: Mary Graham
Date: April 12, 2013

New Jersey’s Attempt to Add Sports Betting: Does it threaten the integrity of the game?
Presented By: John T. Wolohan, J.D., Professor of Sport Management
Date: April 19, 2013

2012-2013 Seed Grant Recipients
Presented By: Dessa Bergen-Cico, Rachel Razza, Maria Brown, Bruce Carter, Carrie Smith
Date: April 5, 2013

Parenting Practices and Childhood Outcomes in Indo-African-, Mixed-Ethnic Trinidadian Families
Presented By: Jaipaul Roopnarine, Ph.D., Pearl S. Falk Professor of Human Development and Family Science
Date: February 22, 2013

Climate Change and Food Security
Presented By: Rick Welsh, Ph.D., Professor of Food Studies, Department of Public Health, Food Studies & Nutrition
Date: January 25, 2013

2012

Mindfulness-based Approaches to Treating PTSD and Anxiety
Presented By: Dessa Bergen-Cico, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Faculty Fellow, Burton Blatt Institute
Date: December 7, 2012

Community-Based Participatory Research: Benefits, Challenges and Strategies for Research with Minority Communities
Presented By: Katherine McDonald, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Faculty Fellow, Burton Blatt Institute
Date: November 9, 2012

A Treatment Model for Family Therapy with Complex Trauma
Presented By: Linda Stone Fish, M.S.W., Ph.D., Department of Marriage & Family Therapy
Date: October 5, 2012

2011-2012 Seed Grant Recipient Presentations
Presented By: Leigh Gantner, Ph.D., “Understanding the Dynamics of the CNY Food System”
Presented By: Eunjoo Jung, Ed.D., “Everyone Succeeds”
Presented By: Gina Pauline, Ed.D., “WISE Industry Pulse Study”
Date: April 20, 2012

Fan Preferences in Professional Hockey – The Effects of Team Success, Fighting, and Promotions
Presented By: Rodney Paul, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sport Management
Date: March 23, 2012

Community Research as a Teaching Method
Presented By: Sandy Lane, MPH, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Public Health
Date: February 10, 2012

2011

Creation and Implementation fo a Healthy Campus Environmental Audit
Presented By: Tanya Horacek, Ph.D., RD, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
Date: December 9, 2011

Attachment Theory and Domestic Violence
Presented By: Ken Corvo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Date: November 4, 2011

Environmental Toxicants
Presented By: Brooks Gump, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health
Date: September 23, 2011