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National Children's Bureau gives $1 million grant to SSW
The School of Social Work has received a three year, $1,049,180 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Children's Bureau. The bureau is the oldest federal agency for children and is responsible for assisting states in the delivery of child welfare services. The grant will be used to assess how well federally funded child welfare training programs are preparing foster children in the United States in life skills such as employment, education, housing, and health. Mary Collins, an SSW associate professor and the director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in sociology and social work, will direct the work of a research team composed of seven full-time SSW faculty. The team will survey project staff, their child welfare providers, and trainee supervisors as well as assess training materials through a cross-site study evaluating nine federally funded child welfare training programs throughout the country. In addition, the team will conduct three national studies on the value of training interventions for the child welfare and social work education fields, which will include a comprehensive literature review and a survey of child welfare administrators and deans of schools of social work about their involvement in federally funded child welfare projects. “Information from this national evaluation will provide important lessons to build on strengths of training approaches and improve their weaknesses,” says Collins, “eventually resulting in system improvements to serve vulnerable children and families.”
CGS chair's book on Catholic Church receives prize
Jay Corrin (GRS'76), a CGS professor of social science and chairman of the division of social science, was awarded the American Catholic Historical Association's John Gilmary Shea Prize for his 2002 book Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy at its annual meeting this month. The prize is named after Shea, a famous historian of American Catholicism, and is given annually to the American or Canadian author who has made the most original and significant contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Church with a book published during the previous year. Margaret Thompson, chairman of the judging committee, says that Corrin's book “is an impressively broad, insightful analysis that persuasively demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of European Catholic thought in the century preceding Vatican Council II. . . . The result is a work that will be valued by scholars, even as it remains accessible to the educated general reader.”
CFA student wins trumpet competition
Karin Bliznik (CFA'06), a performance major at CFA's school of music, was awarded first prize in the Crawford Trumpet Competition, held at Montclair State University in early December. She bested 22 undergraduate and graduate students from institutions such as the Peabody Institute and the Juilliard School. Bliznik's prize included $1,000 and a solo performance of the competition piece, Alexander Arutunian's Concerto in A flat, with the Montclair State University Symphonic Band, conducted by Stephen Chenette, president of the International Trumpet Guild. Previously, Bliznik won a competitive scholarship to the 2003 International Trumpet Guild Conference and was a finalist in the 2003 Eastern Music Festival Concerto Competition.
CFA flutists in final round of competition
Dawn Weithe (CFA'03), who graduated with a master's of music in woodwind performance and is currently working on a CFA performance diploma, and Sarah Paysnick (CFA'04), a master's of music in woodwind performance candidate, have been selected to compete in the final round of the 24th annual James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. It will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 8, at Seully Hall at the Boston Conservatory and is free and open to the public. Weithe and Paysnick are students of Marianne Gedigian, a CFA teaching associate in the school of music, a former winner of the competition, and principal flutist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. The competition, begun in 1980 to honor the memory of Pappoutsakis, a Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist for nearly 40 years and teacher of generations of musicians, is open to those studying flute at the Berklee College of Music, the Boston Conservatory of Music, BU, the Longy School of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. For more information, e-mail president@pappoutsakis.org.
16 January 2004
Boston University
Office of University Relations