Lindsay Bornheimer Receives NIH Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34)
Assistant Professor Lindsay Bornheimer has received a National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34). This three-year grant will support her team in modifying and evaluating acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Suicide Prevention for psychosis...
Jaclynn Hawkins and Jamie Mitchell Receive Loan Repayment for Health-Disparities Researchers
Jaclynn Hawkins and Jamie Mitchell have each received loan repayment awards for their continued commitment to engage in health-disparities research. The awards are from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities whose loan repayment programs were established by Congress and...
Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee Recipient of the 2020 Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change
The Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee (FADC) at the School of Social Work is a recipient of the 2020 Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change (sponsored by CEW+). This award was created to honor CEW+ director Carol Hollenshead and celebrates those...
Roland Zullo's Paper Earns Annual Best Paper Award
Roland Zullo’s paper “Explaining Privatization Failure: The Vice of Sweet Carrots and Hard Sticks” has been selected by the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics as winner of the Annual Best Paper Award. The paper explains why private contracting underperforms in the...
Natasha Johnson Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Natasha Johnson, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, for successfully defending her dissertation, "You Must Work Twice as Hard for Half as Much: Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, and Racism Awareness in Adolescence." Her committee chairs were Daphne Watkins...
Justin Hodge Wins Democratic Primary for Washtenaw County Commissioner
Clinical Assistant Professor Justin Hodge, MSW ‘13, won the Democratic primary for Washtenaw County Commissioner, 5th District; he’ll advance to face the Republican candidate in the November election.
How Government Relief Affects Small-Dollar Loans
Associate Professor Terri Friedline discusses the drop in demand for small-dollar loans with Morning Consult. Without additional government relief, she expects “things to get a lot worse as people are forced to take on debt, including higher-cost, small-dollar loans, to survive the pandemic.”
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Luke Shaefer quoted in The New York Times on Coronavirus Economic Relief
In March, Congress approved more than $2 trillion in economic relief, including hundreds of billions of dollars to individuals in direct stimulus payments, nutritional assistance and bigger-than-normal unemployment checks. The aid “has been much more effective than I first thought,” said Luke...
Center for Equitable Community & Family Well-Being Launches Website
Professor Trina Shanks is the director of the newly launched Center for Equitable Family & Community Well-Being, which is designed to connect the resources and the intellectual strength of U-M with the passion and social capital of community leaders. The center’s work will focus explicitly on...
Daphne Watkins Awarded the Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship
Professor Daphne Watkins has been named a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and jointly administered by the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI), the Diversity...