Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones Featured in Boston Globe Magazine Article
Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones (’57) was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine article on February 2 as founder of Boston’s City to City Program. As described in the article, "Since 1997, City to City has taken influential Bostonians on annual trips to major metropolitan areas, mostly in the United States but occasionally overseas, to see […]
Massachusetts Office of Elder Affairs and IGSW Renew Partnership for Crucial Workforce Training
Efforts to prepare more social workers to care for the burgeoning older population got a boost with the announcement that The Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) at Boston University School of Social Work and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs will join forces for a second year of geriatric training for agency staff […]
Professor Geron to be Active in Winter/Spring Conferences on Aging
Dr. Scott Miyake Geron, Director of the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work and Associate Professor for Social Welfare Policy and Research, is playing an active national and international role this winter and spring in a variety of programs with a focus on aging. These include: * Invited participant to Hartford Foundation and AARP-funded […]
Professor Spencer Authors Youth Mentoring Section of New Research in Action Series
SSW Assistant Professor Renee Spencer is a contributor to MENTOR’S new Research in Action series. Professor Spencer’s contribution is on the issue of “Why Youth Mentoring Relationships End” and may be accessed at http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_386.pdf According to MENTOR’S website, “The Research in Action series contains 10 issues on some of the most pressing topics facing […]
SSW Team to Present on Compulsive Hoarding at SSWR Annual Conference
Several members of the SSW community will be participating in a symposium on compulsive hoarding as part of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) annual conference in Washington, DC, January 17 to 20, 2008. The symposium, Compulsive Hoarding: Psychopathology and Public Health Issues, with Assistant Professor Jordana Muroff and Nancy Morrow-Howell of Washington […]
SSW Professor, Alumna to Receive NASW Awards
Two members of the SSW community are being recognized by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) at the organization’s annual awards reception on March 11, 2008. Professor Scott Miyake Geron, who is Director of the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work, will be honored with the Beverly Ross Fliegel […]
SSW Well Represented at Hoarding Conference
Several members of the School of Social Work community presented at the MassHousing’s Community Services Conference, “Thinking Outside Our Box(es): A Housing, Service, Clinical and Enforcement Team Approach to Hoarding,” in Marlborough Massachusetts, on December 12, 2007. Presentations included: Hoarding: What It Is, Individual and Public Consequences, and a Team Approach to Effective Interventions—Gail […]
Professor Hudson to Join Minority Aging Research Advisory Board
Professor Rob Hudson, Chair of the School’s Social Welfare Policy Department, has been invited to join the national advisory board of the Resource Center for Minority Aging Research at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. The Center, now in its 11th year, is funded by the National Institute on Aging as a collaborative […]
Spaces available for GIS Training Workshop on January 10 & 11
The School of Social Work is offering a training workshop on GIS (Geographic Information System) technology in conjunction with the Boston University Department of Geography and Environment. The two-day workshop on January 10 and 11 will provide hands-on instruction to GIS mapping technology, an increasingly popular tool for sophisticated community level analyses. There are a […]
Online Video of Puerto Rican Experience Program Now Available
An online videotape of the Alumni Association-sponsored First Thursday Program, “The Puerto Rican Experience as a Vital Model of Social Work Training and Research Collaborations,” is now available at: https://www.bu.edu/ssw/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=144 In this November 1, 2007 program, Assistant Professor Luz López and study/travel participants discuss the three-week summer travel and study program in Puerto Rico […]