Category: Students

PhD Candidate Lea Vugic

PhD Candidate Lea Vugić Earns National Recognition

Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) PhD Candidate Lea Vugić received an Honorable Mention Doctoral Award for the 2025 Grand Challenges in Social Work to Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice. Vugić’s dissertation entitled “Centering Social Justice in Social Work Education: An exploration of perspectives on how social justice is modeled in an MSW program,” was […]

Kris Berg Boston University

Student Kris Berg Selected as a 2025 Promising Practitioner by NASW-MA

Kris Berg (SSW, MPH ‘27), a dual degree student at BU School of Social Work and BU School of Public Health, has received the Promising Practitioner Award for 2025 from the NASW Massachusetts Chapter.  The award is given to BSW and MSW students in the Commonwealth who exhibit distinguishable academic and field work reflected by […]

Sofia Vargas (3rd from left) and Matteo Montero-Murillo (3rd from right) with other CSWE fellows outside of Rep. Ayanna Pressley's office on Capitol Hill (Courtesy of Sofia Vargas)

Recent MSW Grads Advocate for Change & Build Connections at 2025 CSWE Fellows Forum

Two recent Boston University School of Social Work graduates, Matteo Montero-Murillo (MSW’25) and Sofía Vargas (MSW’25), capped off the academic year at the 2025 Fellows Forum hosted by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national association representing social work education.  Montero-Murillo and Vargas, who were both appointed 2024-25 fellows of CSWE’s Minority Fellowship […]