Faculty Member, Students to Present on Youth Mentoring
Assistant Professor Renee Spencer will be a panelist for The Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County’s Seminar Series on Empowerment through Mentoring. The program is being held March 13, 2008, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., at Northeastern University. Elizabeth Mangan, a SSW student intern at the Center, will serve as moderator. This panel will provide […]
SSW Financial Aid Director to Represent Massachusetts at National Conference
SSW Director of Financial Aid Ina Frye has been selected as one of two financial aid administrators to represent the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (MASFAA) at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) Leadership Conference in Washington, DC from March 9 to 11, 2008. The NASFAA Leadership Conference is an […]
Significant BUSSW Presence in New Enclyclopedia of Social Work
The National Association of Social Workers, in conjunction with Oxford University Press, is publishing the Encyclopedia of Social Work, 29th Edition this spring. The four-volume publication provides comprehensive information on the social work profession. A number of current and former faculty have contributed to this new edition: Mary Ann Amodeo Alcohol and Drug Problems: Practice Interventions […]
Faculty and PhD Students Presenting at SSWR Annual Conference
SSW Professors Mary Collins, Cassandra Clay, Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Ruth Paris, and Sunny Hyucksun Shin, PhD students Jieha Lee and Rolanda Ward, and MSW/MPH student Rendelle Bolton are presenting at this week’s Annual Conference of The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). The conference is being held in Washington, DC today through Sunday. The presentations include: […]
Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones Featured in Boston Globe Magazine Article
Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones (’57) was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine article on February 2 as founder of Boston’s City to City Program. As described in the article, "Since 1997, City to City has taken influential Bostonians on annual trips to major metropolitan areas, mostly in the United States but occasionally overseas, to see […]
Professor Geron to be Active in Winter/Spring Conferences on Aging
Dr. Scott Miyake Geron, Director of the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work and Associate Professor for Social Welfare Policy and Research, is playing an active national and international role this winter and spring in a variety of programs with a focus on aging. These include: * Invited participant to Hartford Foundation and AARP-funded […]
Professor Spencer Authors Youth Mentoring Section of New Research in Action Series
SSW Assistant Professor Renee Spencer is a contributor to MENTOR’S new Research in Action series. Professor Spencer’s contribution is on the issue of “Why Youth Mentoring Relationships End” and may be accessed at http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_386.pdf According to MENTOR’S website, “The Research in Action series contains 10 issues on some of the most pressing topics facing […]
SSW Team to Present on Compulsive Hoarding at SSWR Annual Conference
Several members of the SSW community will be participating in a symposium on compulsive hoarding as part of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) annual conference in Washington, DC, January 17 to 20, 2008. The symposium, Compulsive Hoarding: Psychopathology and Public Health Issues, with Assistant Professor Jordana Muroff and Nancy Morrow-Howell of Washington […]
SSW Professor, Alumna to Receive NASW Awards
Two members of the SSW community are being recognized by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) at the organization’s annual awards reception on March 11, 2008. Professor Scott Miyake Geron, who is Director of the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work, will be honored with the Beverly Ross Fliegel […]
SSW Well Represented at Hoarding Conference
Several members of the School of Social Work community presented at the MassHousing’s Community Services Conference, “Thinking Outside Our Box(es): A Housing, Service, Clinical and Enforcement Team Approach to Hoarding,” in Marlborough Massachusetts, on December 12, 2007. Presentations included: Hoarding: What It Is, Individual and Public Consequences, and a Team Approach to Effective Interventions—Gail […]