Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) doctoral candidate Mohit Tamta, who focuses on cross-national research on housing insecurity, urban poverty, and health disparities among marginalized communities in India and the United States, was recently featured in the South Asian Social Work Educators Association (SASWEA) Fall 2025 Newsletter, which was showcased during this year’s Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Annual Program […]
Highlighted in the BU Alumni & Friends blog, Ricardo Neal (SSW ‘99), founder of We Will All Rise, recently established the Williams-Neal Fund for Community Change, named in honor of his family to provide field education stipends for BUSSW students facing financial hardship. Reflecting on his own time in the program, Neal recalls how […]
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) PhD Candidate Lea Vugić received an Honorable Mention Doctoral Award for the 2025 Grand Challenges in Social Work to Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice. Vugić’s dissertation entitled “Centering Social Justice in Social Work Education: An exploration of perspectives on how social justice is modeled in an MSW program,” was […]
Assoc. Prof. Jennifer M. Gómez, top Google scholar of 2024, recently received the 2025 Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma. The award, given in memory of Linda Saltzman who dedicated her life to ending intimate partner violence through research, encourages continued research in this field by […]