Amy Mengni Yao, a graduating doctoral candidate at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), has received the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for her dissertation, “Food Insecurity and Mental Health among Urban Women, and the Effects of Policy Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The Horowitz Foundation supports projects with a social policy application […]
By Bianca V. (MSW’23) As a second-year student in the MSW program at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), I have often felt like a circus performer this semester while juggling four classes, a field placement, a part-time job, friends, and other responsibilities. While classes and my field placement certainly take the front seat, I […]
Nandy Barbosa (SSW’23), a recent MSW graduate from Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), is a featured panelist at a virtual event on social work careers in aging hosted by the Older Adult Behavioral Health Network and three partner schools: BUSSW, Simmons University and Salem State University. The event is part of an initiative […]
Eliana Kaplan (SSW’23), a master’s student at Boston University School of Social Work, was recently awarded a 2023 Social Work Grant Award by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI). As part of the award, Kaplan will attend the Lawrence Lifson Psychodynamic Psychotherapy conference in Boston and hold a guest partnership at BPSI with free […]