BUSSW Alumni Association Announces First Overseas Chapter
A new milestone in the BUSSW Alumni Association has been reached—-establishment of the first chapter overseas. Barbara Kondilis-Petropoulos, a MSW/MPH graduate in 1998 and 1999, respectively, is serving as the chapter representative. She lives in Athens, Greece. Barbara currently is the Coordinator of Student Affairs, a researcher, and a part-time faculty member with the […]
SSW Commencement Speaker Video Available for Viewing
A video of SSW Commencement speaker Joan Wallace-Benjamin is available for viewing at https://www.bu.edu/ssw/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=110
New SSW Faculty Book Published
Two BUSSW faculty members–Professor Melvin Delgado and Professor Lee Staples–have a new book in publication (Oxford University Press): Youth-Led Community OrganizingMelvin Delgado and Lee Staples Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. […]
Two BUSSW Faculty Members Receive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants
The School of Social Work has received two grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The one-year grants were awarded through RWJF’s New Connections Initiative: Bringing Diversity to RWJF Grantmaking and Increasing Secondary Data Analysis Program, which seeks to bring the Foundation a broader perspective in its program planning and design. Assistant Professor […]
World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Comes to Boston University in 2010
Boston University has won the bid to host the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in June 2010. Organizers are Dr. Gail Steketee, Professor and currently Dean ad interim at the School of Social Work, and Dr. Michael Otto, Professor and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders in the Department of […]
Assistant Professor Muroff Awarded One-Year OCD Grant
The Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, Inc., has awarded BUSSW Assistant Professor Jordana Muroff a one-year grant of $43,477 for the study, Delivery of Internet Treatment for Compulsive Hoarding (D.I.T.C.H.). This study aims to test the effectiveness of an online CBT-based group intervention designed to help people with compulsive hoarding better manage their symptoms. Professor Muroff’s project is […]
Video of Dean ad interim Gail Steketee’s Presentation on Compulsive Hoarding Now Available on BUniverse
A video of Dean ad interim Gail Steketee’s Alumni Association-sponsored First Thursday Program presentation on compulsive hoarding is available for viewing on BUniverse at https://www.bu.edu/ssw/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=95
MAOA-IGSW Partnership Seeks to Improve Mental Health Services to Older Adults in Massachusetts
The Executive Office of Elder Affairs has recently awarded a Mental Health and Aging grant to the Massachusetts Association of Older Americans (MAOA), in collaboration with the Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) at Boston University School of Social Work. The grant will fund an innovative program of mental health education and supervision for […]
BUSSW Faculty Again Ranked Highly
In early 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that BUSSW faculty are ranked 8th in the in productivity among schools of social work with doctoral programs. BUSSW is the only school of social work in New England to be ranked in the top ten. Comments Dean ad interim Gail Steketee, “The productivity ranking means […]
CCPH Recognizes BUSSW Partnership Project
The CCT Partnership–Casa Esperanza, Inc., Boston University School of Social Work’s Center for Addictions Research and Services (CARS), and Tapestry Health Systems–has been recognized with an honorable mention in the 2007 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Awards. CCT is a partnership between two Massachusetts community-based organizations and BUSSW that is based on the joint […]