Mary Neal, MSW '05, has been working in the addiction and recovery field for more than ten years.
Nancy D’Angelo Kusmaul, MSW '00, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the College at Brockport. She completed her PhD in social welfare at the University at Buffalo in 2013. Her dissertation is titled “Understanding the Direct Care Workforce in Nursing Homes: A Study of Life Circumstances and Organizational Factors and Their Relationship to Caring Behaviors and Knowledge.”
Nancy Hatcher, MSW '72, was named the Social Worker of the Year and awarded the Jill Solomon Award for Excellence in Social Work by the National Hemophilia Foundation at its annual meeting in November. Nancy was selected from an elite group of social workers that care for hemophilia patients all across the United States. Nancy serves on national and regional committees and is a member of the NHF Ethics Advisory Committee.
Nancy Kriseman, MSW '82, has been working with elders and their families for more than 30 years. In February 2014 Rowman and Littlefield published her book entitled: The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey.
Patricia Wood Davis, MSW '73, received the Pioneer Award from the NASW Foundation. The Foundation is recognizing Dr. Davis as an astute educator, a visionary, an advocate, a mentor and as a stalwart proponent for the rights and equality of the disenfranchised and the underserved.
Assistant Professor David Cordova and Amanda Ciofu (MSW 13) paper, "Exploring Culturally Based Intrafamilial Stressors Among Latino Adolescents,” has been accepted for publication in Family Relations.
Assistant Professor David Cordova and a team of SSW alumni and MSW students including Laura Alexander (MSW) and alumni Kate Guzman, Caitlin Martin and Craig VanKempen, received first place for their poster entitled, "Here for Youth: Developing and Mobilizing a Community Advisory Board to Assess and Improve Mental Health Services for Adolescents". Their research was presented at the 2014 Outreach, Partnerships & Implementation Science at the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research symposium.
Barbara Ngwenya (PhD 2000) of Okavango Research Institute became the first Motswana woman to become professor in the field of Applied Anthropology at the University of Botswana.
Julie Nagel, MSW '82, PhD '87, author of Melodies of the Mind, had a book signing on October 4, 2013 at The Juilliard School. She also presented at the William Alanson White Conference in New York in October.
Linda Bowman, MSW '75, has returned to serving as a renal social worker. She is working at DaVita, the second largest provider of dialysis in the U.S.
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