Faculty News

Dean Laura Lein, along with colleagues Assistant Professor Luke Shaefer and Assistant Professor Sue Ann Savas, received an award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation via the University of Detroit Mercy. The project aims to develop a cultural competence course that will tap faculty experts in SSW and the School of Dentistry to develop access-to-care and a provider acceptability evaluation plan by reviewing the types of data dental clinics currently collect, data that will be required for reporting under the Affordable Care Act, and new measures being developed by the Dental Quality Alliance.

Professor Berit Ingersoll-Dayton received an award from the U-M Thai Studies Center. The project will examine the ways in which Thai grandparents contribute to their families as well as the complex costs and benefits of these efforts.

Professor Lorraine Gutiérrez received an award from the U- M Center for Research on Learning & Teaching. Her project proposes to bring together a small group of faculty in the School of Social Work and the School of Arts and Design to create an innovative course that engages students in active learning on the topic of the arts for community change.

Professor Ruth Dunkle and Dean Laura Lein were quoted in PHYS.ORG's article "New centers will lead to enhanced geriatric social work training" ( http://bit.ly/YLJ5y5 ) regarding the U-M Hartford/GSA National Center on Gerontological Social Work Excellence initiative. It was also announced in the Gerontological Society of America ( http://bit.ly/YbzRzE ) and Medical News ( http://bit.ly/YbzZ1Z ).

Professor Sandy Danziger was unanimously selected by the School of Social Work's Distinguished Professor Committee to be the recipient of the School's 2013 Distinguished Professor Award.

Assistant Professor David Cordova received a fellowship award from the Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse at the University of Southern California and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health ( http://sowkweb.usc.edu/research/interdisciplinary-research-training-institute ).

Associate Professor Karen Staller is elected chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. She will also chair the Senate Assembly. The position is a one-year term beginning on May 1.

Ruth Dunkle, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs leads the center at U-M. See the announcement at Gerontological Society of America: http://www.geron.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1649&Itemid=608 . See the announcement at Medical News: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130329/New-centers-chosen-to-increase-geriatric-social-work-training.aspx