BUSSW Team Wins Shipley Academic Innovation Grant
A BUSSW team is reimagining how MSW students practice critical skills—using ethical, AI-driven simulations embedded in Blackboard Ultra.
Professor Lee’s Book on Motivational Interviewing Wins National Award from the American Journal of Nursing
The book highlights culturally adapted motivational interviewing (CAMI) and how integrating culture into MI can enhance engagement and outcomes across diverse communities.
BU Today: BUSSW Faculty and Dean Honored with Research Awards
The Recognizing Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Scholarship Reception at BU honors faculty members who receive distinguished national and international awards.
Professor Alvarez-Hernandez Named to CSWE MFP Fellowship Board
BUSSW professor Luis Alvarez-Hernandez will mentor and support social work students from minoritized populations as a newly elected advisor on the CSWE MFP board.
PhD Candidate Mohit Tamta Recognized for Research
Doctoral candidate Mohit Tamta focuses on cross-national research on housing insecurity, urban poverty, and health disparities among marginalized communities in India and the United States.
PhD Candidate Lea Vugić Earns National Recognition
PhD Candidate Lea Vugić received an Honorable Mention Doctoral Award for the 2025 Grand Challenges in Social Work to Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice.
Assoc. Professor Jennifer M. Gómez Receives Trauma Researcher Award
Assoc. Prof. Jennifer M. Gómez, top Google scholar of 2024, received the 2025 Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award.
Kim Hokanson Elected Co-chair of NASW’s National PACE Board of Trustees
Kim Hokanson, a lecturer at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), has been elected co-chair of the National Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Board of Trustees at the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). She also continues to serve as chair of the Massachusetts PACE Board at NASW-MA. These roles reflect her deep commitment […]
BUSSW Dean Jones Co-Leads National NCI-Funded Initiative to Transform Psychosocial and Palliative Oncology Care
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is proud to serve as a key academic partner on a newly awarded $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI R25CA298892) to support ESPEC Oncology: Transforming Psychosocial and Palliative Cancer Care, a national training and mentorship initiative designed to enhance the role of social workers in […]
Student Kris Berg Selected as a 2025 Promising Practitioner by NASW-MA
Kris Berg (SSW, MPH ‘27), a dual degree student at BU School of Social Work and BU School of Public Health, has received the Promising Practitioner Award for 2025 from the NASW Massachusetts Chapter. The award is given to BSW and MSW students in the Commonwealth who exhibit distinguishable academic and field work reflected by […]