BUSSW Professor Receives Grant to Study the Association between Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Binge Drinking
BUSSW is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Sunny Hyucksun Shin has been awarded a Silberman Fund Faculty Grant to continue his research on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adolescent binge drinking. It is well known that exposure to childhood maltreatment increases the risk of alcohol problems in adolescence, but little is known about […]
BUSSW announces arrival of three new faculty: Daniel Miller, PhD, Lisa Moore, PhD and Nikki Wooten, PhD
BUSSW announces three new faculty beginning in this fall: Daniel Miller, PhD, Lisa Moore, PhD and Nikki Wooten, PhD. Professor Miller joins the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Human Behavior Department. He recently completed his PhD at Columbia University School of Social Work. He also holds a Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia, and completed his BA […]
Remembering Elba Cleland
Boston University School of Social Work faculty advisor and alumna Elba Cleland passed away on Wednesday, August 12, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, succumbing to metastatic uterine cancer. She was 56 years of age and taught at Simmons College. A proud graduate of the Boston University School of Social Work, with a dual degree (MSW […]
Remembering Professor Libby Zimmerman
Dr. Libby Zimmerman passed away on the morning of August 10, 2009 after a recurrence of cancer. Dr. Zimmerman was an associate clinical professor at Boston University School of Social Work from 1987 to 2000, where she chaired the Human Behavior Sequence, directed several federal child welfare training grants, and developed an interdisciplinary graduate course […]
Cooney Presents at EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise
Kate Cooney, PhD, assistant professor of macro practice, and co-director of the Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium, presented a paper on U.S. work integration social purpose businesses at the 2nd Emes International Conference on Social Enterprises, held in Trento, Italy from 1st to 4th of July. More than 150 researchers from 36 counties from around the […]
BUSSW Faculty Ranks 6th in Productivity
–Farha Sandhu Faculty at BU School of Social Work have been honored again. Based on research by Academic Analytics, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that SSW’s faculty rank 6th in the Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. SSW The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index rates the productivity of faculty members in 7,294 individual doctoral […]
Achievements in Aging at BUSSW: Honoring the late Professor Emeritus Louis Lowy, PhD
Honoring a legacy that began over sixty years ago, Boston University School of Social Work hosted “Achievements in Aging,” a reception celebrating the life of social work pioneer and beloved Professor Emeritus Dr. Louis Lowy, and the School’s leading research and scholarship in the field of gerontological social work. The April 29 event was held […]
BUSSW Professor Mark Gianino Appointed to AASWG Board
BUSSW Clinical Assistant Professor Mark Gianino has recently been selected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG), the leading international association for social workers and allied helping professionals involved in group work. Members were appointed through a selective nomination process. “AASWG focuses […]
Ruth Named to Health & Social Work Editorial Board
–Farha Sandhu (COM ’09) BUSSW Associate Clinical Professor Betty J. Ruth has recently been invited to serve as a consulting editor for Health and Social Work, a journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). For over 20 years, health professionals have relied on Health & Social Work for the latest advances in areas […]
Dean Freedman Featured in Panel on Developmental Disabilities
Ruth Freedman, associate dean for academic affairs at Boston University School of Social Work, participated in a panel briefing at The Boston Foundation, January 30, presenting the results of a recently released health care research report conducted by The ARC of Massachusetts, “Left Out in the Cold: Health Care Experiences of Adults with Intellectual and […]