On October 28, 2014, BUSSW’s Aida Manduley, scheduled to graduate in 2016, sat on a panel of (s)experts at BU’s 3rd Annual Sex in the Dark event. Hosted by Wellness & Prevention Services, the event takes place in complete darkness, minus a few glow sticks, to make students more comfortable discussing intimate issues. Questions are anonymously […]
Dean and Professor Gail Steketee, PhD, was named in Joan Acocella’s article “Let it Go – Are we Becoming a Nation of Hoarders,” published in The New Yorker. Here, Acocella tells the stories of her mother, Homer and Langley Collyer, and Edith Ewing Bouvier Baele and her daughter Edith, also known as Big and Little […]
Associate Professor Luz M. López, along with Lisa de Saxe Zerden (SSW ’93), Philippe Bourgois, Helena Hansen, Roberto Abadie, Kirk Dombrowski, and Ric Curtis, published a letter in the January 2015 edition of the American Journal of Public Health. The letter was written in support of Deren et al.’s work, highlighted in Addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic […]
Boston University School of Social Work Assistant Professor Daniel P. Miller, PhD, was quoted in The Huffington Post’s “Why ‘Family Bonding’ During The Holidays Actually Matters, According To Science.” The article, presented by Johnson & Johnson, curates recent studies to suggest the importance of family bonding during the holiday season. Miller’s quote comes from a 2013 USA […]