BUSSW Professor and Doctoral Student to Present at SRCD Conference
Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm and Jieha Lee, a BUSSW doctoral student, will be presenting at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. The meeting is being held in Boston, March 29 to April 1, 2007. The presentations are: Substance Use among Asian American and Pacific Islander Sexual Minority Youth: Findings from the […]
Professor Collins Testifies Before Massachusetts House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Collins, Associate Professor of Social Welfare Policy, with the School of Social Work, testified on January 30, 2007 before the Massachusetts House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect on the development of new legislation to reform Massachusetts Department of Social Services practices. Following is her testimony: Thank you for the opportunity […]
BUSSW Faculty and Doctoral Students Presented at SSWR Conference
Several BUSSW faculty and doctoral students presented and moderated sessions at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work Research (SSWR), which was held January 11 to 14, in San Francisco. Professor Maryann Amodeo was moderator for "Mainstreaming Substance Abuse Education: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries" and co-presented a poster session with Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm on […]
BUSSW Ranked 8th in Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index
The Boston University School of Social Work ranks eighth among schools of social work with doctoral programs on the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, according to a report in the January 12, 2007 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. BUSSW is the only school of social work in New England to be ranked in […]
Professor Spencer to Deliver Keynote at Mentoring Conference
BUSSW Professor Renee Spencer will be one of two keynote speakers at the Friends of Youth 8th Annual Mentoring Conference, Mentoring: Art or Science, to be held January 25 and 26, 2007, in Redwood Shores, California. In Spencer’s keynote, “Building and Sustaining High Quality Mentoring Relationships,” the factors that tend to be associated with […]
Professor Rob Hudson Honored for 10 years of Editorship
BUSSW Professor Rob Hudson was honored at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) for having completed ten years as Editor of Public Policy & Aging Report, the quarterly publication of GSA’s National Academy on an Aging Society. The meeting was held in Dallas from November 16 to 20. In addition […]
SSW Faculty Member Receives BU Professorship
Dr. Marah Curtis, Assistant Professor in the School’s Social Welfare Policy Department, has been awarded three years of salary and research support as a Boston University Peter Paul Development Professorships. The Professorship recognizes new faculty members with great promise in their field. Dr. Curtis is one of four recipients of this award for the 2006/2007 academic year. Dr. […]
SSW Professors Receive Important New Grants
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded BUSSW a grant to test whether providing mobile mental health and health services will result in a reduction of HIV risky behaviors among a sample of 700 Puerto Rican injection drug users. The grant includes $500,000 for the outcome evaluation and $2,000,000 for […]
New Faculty Join BUSSW in 2006/07
The Boston University School of Social Work welcomes the following new faculty in 2006/2007: FULL-TIME FACULTY Jordana Muroff, Ph.D., M.S.W., Assistant Professor, received her MSW and PhD from the University of Michigan joins the Clinical Practice Department. In academic year 2005-2006 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan in the Program for Improving […]
Professor of Social Work talks with Chronicle about gay adoption
Original Post: March 15, 2006 By Rebecca Lipchitz Mark Gianino Mark Gianino, (SSW’83) a clinical assistant professor of clinical practice at the School of Social work, will be a guest tonight on WCVB Channel 5’s Chronicle to discuss the social development of children adopted by same-sex couples. Gianino, himself an adoptive parent in a same-sex […]