Professor Collins & PhD Student Adrianna Spindle-Jackson Publish White Paper on Workforce Development for Vulnerable Youth
Professor Mary Collins and PhD student Adrianna Spindle-Jackson of BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) published a new white paper featuring learnings from two studies focused on the challenges and opportunities in workforce development for vulnerable youth. The studies, conducted at BUSSW between April 2020 and March 2021, examine how state and local workforce development […]
Professor Sprague Martinez Leads Health Equity Core for Long Covid Project at Harvard Medical School
Health equity expert Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, an associate professor at BU School of Social Work, is bringing her expertise to a new working group researching Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 – a now-pervasive condition commonly referred to as “long COVID.” The working group is part of Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness which […]
PhD Student Cristina Brinkerhoff Submits Testimony Opposing Mass. Ballot Initiative Targeting Gig Workers
Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff, a doctoral candidate at Boston University School of Social Work, joined a large group of workers’ rights advocates at the Massachusetts State House last week to submit testimony opposing a ballot initiative that Brinkerhoff calls anti-worker and anti-consumer. The ballot initiative (H4.375/H.4376) attempts to regulate and define the contract-based relationship between app-based gig […]
Professor Jacobson López Named Visiting Fellow at Yale AIDS Research Center
Daniel Jacobson López, assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work, will be a visiting fellow in the Research Education Institute for Diversity Scholars (REIDS) at the Yale School of Public Health’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). The highly competitive fellowship is designed to support racial and ethnic minority scholars who are […]
Five BUSSW Faculty Recognized for National Awards
On April 20, 2022, Boston University will recognize five School of Social Work faculty for their recent national awards in a celebration led by President Robert A. Brown and members of BU’s academic leadership. The event will honor BU faculty who received prestigious awards for teaching, research and scholarship at a national level in the […]
3/25: Professor Sprague Martinez Centers Black Women & Their Health in Sisters with Superpowers Panel
In honor of Women’s History Month, the entertainment and media company Rolling Out is hosting a free two-day conference called Sisters with Superpowers // Peace & Purpose to celebrate powerful women in business, culture, and community. Linda Sprague Martinez, an associate professor at BU School of Social Work, joins the conference as one of three […]
BUSSW Seeks Lecturers for Salaried Full-Time Positions in Clinical & Macro Practice
As one of the nation’s top schools of social work, Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is dedicated to the pursuit of inclusive excellence in education, research, and evidence-based practice to advance social, racial, gender, and economic justice and solve the most pressing societal problems of the 21st century. BUSSW is currently seeking applications […]
The New York Times: Alum Jill Shames (SSW’83) Provides On-the-Ground Services Near Ukraine with Israeli Nonprofit
BU School of Social Work alum Jill Shames (COM’82, SSW’83) was recently interviewed by The New York Times for an article focused on the Israeli aid workers who have joined the effort to provide emergency services for Ukrainian refugees. Shames, a social worker who lives in Israel, is currently in Moldova volunteering in an advanced […]
JobMakers Podcast: Lecturer Celina Miranda (SSW’01,’15) Discusses Immigrant Entrepreneurship & Community Uplift in Jamaica Plain’s Latin Quarter
Last week on the JobMakers podcast, BU School of Social Work alum and lecturer Dr. Celine Miranda (MSW’01, PhD’15) shared her experience as executive director of the Hyde Square Task Force in a conversation with host Denzil Mohammed, director of the Public Education Institute. JobMakers is a production of the Pioneer Institute and The Immigrant […]
Bostonia: Alum Jill Shames (SSW’83) Provides Frontline Emergency Services to Ukrainian Refugees Near Site Where Her Ancestors Fled Anti-Semetism 140 Years Ago
BU School of Social Work alum and social worker Jill Shames (COM’82, SSW’83) is providing on-the-ground emergency services for Ukrainian refugees just across the Ukraine border in Moldova, where she’s volunteering with the non-profit group United Hatzalah of Israel. As an aid worker in the group’s Advanced Psychotrauma Unit, Shames says she is “summoned to […]