Center for Aging & Disability Education and Research to Participate in PCORI Grant; Partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital
BUSSW’s Center for Aging & Disability Education and Research (CADER) will work in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital on a three-year, $1.9 million PCORI grant. The grant focuses on “Acute Community Care to Avoid Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits,” and examines a new Massachusetts acute community care program–a collaboration between the EasCare ambulance service provider and […]
Downsizing the Home: Dr. Gail Steketee Shares Her Insights on Hoarding
BUSSW’s Dean Gail Steketee discusses the difference between clutter and hoarding in her assessment of the emotional connections to items. She is highly esteemed in her field. Her work highlights her expertise in obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders. She co-authored the book, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, and the first edited scholarly volume on […]
BUSSW Receives Award for SWRNet at Society for Social Work and Research Conference
During the Plenary Session on January 15 at the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference in New Orleans, LA, Dean Steketee was asked to come to the stage to receive a surprise award for BUSSW’s management of SWRnet (Social Work Research Network), the online compendium of research funding and related research opportunities disseminated […]
The New Yorker: “Let It Go”
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 […]
Daniel P. Miller Awarded the 2015 Society for Social Work and Research Excellence in Research Award
On October 27, 2014, the Society for Social Work and Research announced the recipient of its Excellence in Research Award: BUSSW Assistant Professor Daniel P. Miller, PhD. In 2013, Miller’s article “Exposure to Childhood Neglect and Physical Abuse and Developmental Trajectories of Heavy Episodic Drinking From Early Adolescence into Young Adulthood,” authored alongside Sunny H. Shin […]
BUSSW Professor Present at Several Fall Conferences
Boston University School of Social Work professors traveled the world this fall presenting and sharing their expertise with audiences at various conferences, including the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, the Addiction Health Services Research Conference, and more. Below is a list of the BU […]
Fall Faculty Updates: Lena Lundgren, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, and CARS Director
Associate Dean and Professor Lena Lundgren hosted the 2014 Addiction Health Services Research Conference (AHSR), a national conference bringing together experts in the field of addiction research, in Boston. Professor Lundgren introduced alumnus Douglas Brooks (SSW’99), one of the plenary speakers at the 3-day event. For more information about this year’s AHSR Conference, click here. […]
Associate Professor Jordana Muroff Quoted in Huffington Post Article
Boston University School of Social Work Associate Professor Jordana Muroff, Ph.D, was interviewed by The Huffington Post’s Carlin Florin for the article “8 Signs you Might Become a Hoarder.” Muroff notes that 80 percent of hoarders began by 18 and that the onset of hoarding begins, on average, at age 12 or 13. Florin also […]
BUSSW Recognizes Recent Faculty Accomplishments and Research
Clinical Associate Professor Furlong Speaks to Harvard Public Health Students Clinical Associate Professor Janice Furlong gave a talk for a health policy class on November 27, 2012, at the Harvard School of Public Health, about mental health policy and the potential impact of DSM-5 revisions. On December 2, she participated in a panel discussion at […]
Associate Professor Merighi Authors Annual Report for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Associate Professor Joseph R. Merighi was the lead author on a report titled, ”End Stage Renal Disease Network Organization Program 2010 Summary Annual Report,” published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This report is distributed to members of the U.S. Congress, […]