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On Monday, April 1, 2013, ASI Faculty Affiliate Luvenia Cowart was one of five Syracuse University faculty and staff members to receive the 2013 Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence at a campus ceremony and reception in their honor. As a professor of practice in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Cowart co-founded the Genesis Health Project in 2004. It is a partnership between minority churches, community and government sponsors and the University to reduce health disparities in minority populations. Focused on black families in low-income areas of Syracuse, this community-designed, culturally sensitive initiative promotes healthy lifestyles across the lifespan among African Americans, who have the highest rates of obesity in the U.S., by empowering them to improve their diets, food preparation techniques and exercise habits. In 2012, membership and project scope increased to include 10 inner-city minority churches and an expanded programmatic reach encompassing diabetes prevention and management as well as stroke.

Under Cowart’s leadership, the Genesis Project has accomplished numerous milestones, including health seminars, fitness programs, educational programs at barbershops and healthy lifestyle activities with churches and universities. Her work and the Genesis Health Project were recognized with the prestigious National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Director’s Award in 2008 from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health. She received the 2011 Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People through Empowerment) Award from the American Journal of Health Promotion for her efforts related to addressing health disparities and received the 2012 Post-Standard Achievement Award for her pioneering work with the Genesis Health Project in the Syracuse community. The Genesis Health Project has also been recognized several times with the SU Chancellor’s Award for Public and Community Service.

For more information regarding the award, please click here.

 

 

On March 26, 2013, ASI Faculty Associate Professor Alejandro Garcia received the 2013 Mary and Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Award for his significant contributions to the field of social work through teaching, research, policy advocacy, and service. Professor Garcia is a Professor of Social Work within Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University.

The Rubenstein Social Justice Award recognizes a person who reflects the values of social justice in his or her professional and personal life. The award is given in honor of the late professor Daniel Rubenstein, a former faculty member in the School of Social Work and his late wife, Mary Lou, a former school social worker.

For more information regarding the award, please click here.

 

 

Eric Kingson presented “The Changed Politics of Social Security” at the Florida State University Claude Pepper Center on February 21.  He also authored (with Nancy Altman) an op ed that appeared in the Feb 19^th edition of USA Today.

Click the link below to view the original op-ed:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/19/strengthen-social-security-coalition/1931643/

 

ASI Faculty Affiliates Madonna Harrington Meyer and Christine Himes have been named the new Co-Editors of Baywood Publishing’s Society and Aging Series. More details regarding the announcement can be found by clicking here.

 

ASI Affiliate Professor Eric Kingson was recently quoted in a Washington Post article titled, “AARP uses its power to oppose Social Security, Medicare benefit cuts for retirees.”

To read the full text of the article, you can click on the following link:

Eric Kingson – Washington Post

 

On November 1, 2012, Dr. Toni Miles delivered the 2012 Syracuse Seminar on Aging. You can view video of her talk, “The Medicaid Expansion, Long Term Care Financing and the Boomer Cohort,” by clicking the following link:

2012 Syracuse Seminar on Aging

On October 11, 2012, ASI Professor Eric Kingson spoke at the Syracuse March to Save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The event was a rally organized by local senior, union and disability rights groups to urge lawmakers to oppose cuts to these programs.

To see the full text of his statement, please click on the following link:

Statement of Eric Kingson – Syracuse March to Save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

On October 12, 2012, Professors Douglas Wolf and Len Burman participated in a discussion on the politics and policies behind some of the big issues in the upcoming election. Professor Wolf spoke on the election’s impacts on aging and demographics, while Professor Burman spoke of the election’s implications on tax policy.

You can watch the full discussion on “Election Issues: Death and Taxes,” by clicking on the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBlJweYYii4&list=UUv4o9bYltCBjBJXtLpMIQRA&index=1&feature=plcp

Douglas Wolf recently joined the Scholars Strategy Network, the mission of which is to address “… pressing public challenges at the national, state, and local levels. As progressive-minded citizens, SSN members spell out the democratic and policy implications of their research in ways that are broadly accessible.”

Wolf’s first SSN Policy Brief, published in April 2012, is titled Family Care for America’s Sick and Frail Elders.