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 (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 […]
Two faculty members and an MSW student from Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) teamed up with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) to evaluate the needs of an essential workforce: infant and early childhood mental health care providers. The researchers – Prof. Alicia Mendez, Prof. Ruth Paris, MSPCC’s […]
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 […]