Center for Health and Behavior fall lecture series begins
CORRECTION: The lecture series takes place from 8:30-9:30 a.m.. Previously the story read 8:30-9:30 p.m.
If You Go
What: Center for Health and Behavior Seminar Series
Where: Huntington Hall, Room 530C
When: Tonight at 8:30 a.m.
How Much: Free
The Center for Health and Behavior Seminar Series starts tonight at 8:30 a.m. in Huntington Hall with its first event, ‘College Drinking: Rite of Passage or Public Health Problem?’
The series includes eight health-related lectures given by SU faculty, staff and students, as well as Onondaga County’s Commissioner of Health. The Seminar Series events were set up in hopes of allowing SU and the local community to discuss current health research on campus. ‘The series is designed for two purposes,’ said Kate Carey, tonight’s speaker, CHB scientist and psychology professor. ‘So others know what the center is doing and the research we are promoting, but also to reach out to find other partners who might be able to expand our portfolio.’ Debbie Zeger, a junior hospitality management major, expressed her confidence in tonight’s seminar.
‘Despite what we learned throughout our lives about alcohol, people are still willing to take the risk,’ she said. ‘Scare tactics are not effective, so maybe talking about it can be beneficial.’
Carey will talk about risks, as well as discuss some of the health prevention and intervention practices SU has been studying.
Noah Levine, a sophomore entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises, marketing and finance major, predicts students will choose not to attend the seminar.
‘I don’t think people will want to go,’ he said. ‘Hearing someone tell you that drinking is bad or it has health consequences is not new for kids our age.’
According to its Web site, the CHB researches behavioral and psychological aspects of health, studies the effects of health issues, such as arthritis and HIV, and develops programs to promote healthy lifestyles for all ages. Its work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and other funding.
The CHB hopes the seminar series makes people aware of the wide range of research taking place, provide students with more information about faculty projects, as well as those being done collaboratively with other institutions, Carey said.
The series is free for SU students, faculty and the community, and will take place 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the Allport Room (Room 530C) of Huntington Hall, on the first and third Friday of each month.
Published on September 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm
