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 […]
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has named Dr. Lenette Azzi-Lessing, a clinical professor at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), to be a National Racial Equity Scholar in Residence. Professor Azzi-Lessing is a longtime advocate for the development of innovative strategies, resources, and initiatives that help dismantle barriers and promote equity within and […]