Sarah Keenan Elected Student Representative to NASW-Massachusetts Chapter Nominating Committee
Stacy Keenan, a second-year Macro Practice student, has been elected Student Representative by her peers to the NASW-Massachusetts Chapter Nominating Committee. In a letter to Dean ad interim Gail Steketee, Phyllis King, Chapter President, and Carol Trust, Chapter Executive Director, wrote, “This election speaks to the professionalism, competence, and trustworthy reputation Sarah communicated to […]
New Students’ Orientation Scheduled for September 4
New Social Work Students’ Orientation Tuesday, September 4 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Boston University George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Ave, 2nd floor For more information, please contact: Heidi Maitland, M.Ed. Interim Coordinator of Student Services and Registration Administrator (617) 353-3761 maitland@bu.edu Fax: 353-5612
Professor Cooney Participates in Panel Discussion on Alleviating Poverty Through Business Strategy
Professor Kate Cooney was an invited speaker on a panel at the Academy of Management Meeting in Philadelphia on August 5. The panel, "Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy," brought together scholars from various disciplines to explore five key aspects to approaches to poverty alleviation through business: social entrepreneurship, nonprofit-for-profit partnerships, strategy and the role of government, business-educational partnerships, and micro interventions (including village work and micro […]
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 […]
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 Students Participate in Innovative GEM Consortium
As the number of older adults is expected to triple in the coming decades, new workforce opportunities have emerged for social workers who specialize in aging. As the baby boom generation ages and life expectancy grows, demand for social workers continues to increase. Yet a 2004 national survey by the National Association of Social Workers […]
PhD Student Receives Farnsworth Scholarship to Study Compulsive Hoarding in Older Adults
BUSSW doctoral student Christiana Bratiotis has been awarded the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust Aging Policy Research Fellowship in the amount of $30,000 for pre-dissertation research on "The Community Response to Compulsive Hoarding in Older Adults." The study will be conducted between June 2006 and May 2007. The substantial risk to health and safety for older […]