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  1. Debra K. Mattison
     
    Debra Mattison U-M IPE Foundations Experience Team Received Award

    Debra Mattison, Clinical Assistant Professor, is a member of the U-M IPE Foundations Experience Team that received the 2019 Demonstration Model Award at the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center (MIPERC) annual conference in Grand Rapids. Frank Ascione of the Center for IPE nominated the 10-member team, which is led by Laura Smith of UM-Flint, in part for "innovative solutions to teaching IPE principles to our large and diverse group of health science students."

  2. Diane Kaplan  Vinokur
     
    Diane Kaplan Vinokur Recognized with 2109 Terry McAdam Book Award

    Associate Professor Emerita Diane Kaplan Vinokur’s new book “Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace” has won the 2019 Terry McAdam Book Award from The Alliance for Nonprofit Management.  “Particularly at this moment when many nonprofits face significant fiscal challenges, we found it to be a hopeful and practical template for collaboration and strengthening the nonprofit sector,” noted the award committee. 

  3. Roland W. Zullo
     
    Roland Zullo Discusses GM Strike with Time Magazine

    Associate Research Scientist Roland Zullo comments on GM strike with Time Magazine. GM union members have joined a national uptick in strikes, with Americans increasingly turning to collective action in the face of unstable employment practices. “In a healthy labor relations context, there’s that understanding that when times are tough, everybody sacrifices. But when times improve, everybody shares, right?” Zullo says.

  4. H. Luke  Shaefer
     
    Luke Shaefer Quoted in The Washington Post

    Luke Shaefer, Professor of Social Work and director of Poverty Solutions, and his co-authors study on material hardships among seniors and children was cited in a recent Washington Post article. Shaefer said about their study "“one of the major takeaways is how incredibly important Social Security is in the retirement security of low- and moderate-income households.”

  5. Karla  Goldman
     
    Karla Goldman quoted in The Times of Israel

    Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work, Karla Goldman, was quoted in the article "200 years ago, John Adams promoted a Jewish state in the Holy Land" in The Times of Israel.  The article explains how the reasoning behind President Trump’s support of a Jewish homeland differs sharply from that of the second president, John Adams. 

  6. Julie M. Ribaudo
     
    Julie Ribaudo featured in Second Wave Michigan story on Infant Mental Health

    Clinical Associate Professor Julie Ribaudo discussed infant mental health programs with Second Wave Michigan. “Babies need to be adored and to adore,” Ribaudo says. “Babies grow better when they love deeply and are loved deeply.”

  7.  
    Kristen Seefeldt Joins U-M Poverty Solutions as New Associate Director

    Associate Professor Kristin Seefeldt has been appointed new associate faculty director at the University of Michigan Poverty Solutions. Poverty Solutions is a presidential initiative that aims to prevent and alleviate poverty through action-based research that informs policymakers, community organizations, government entities and practitioners about what works in confronting poverty.  Seefeldt in her new role will engage more faculty and students in meaningful research opportunities.

  8. Daphne C. Watkins
     
    Daphne Watkins Research Featured in U-M Record

    Associate Professor Daphne Watkins' research on black men is featured in U-M Record.  Watkins researches how men and boys define themselves as men and boys, and how that influences their mental health.

  9.  
    New Faculty Fall 2019

    We welcome four new faculty members to Michigan Social Work — a community joined together by a strong commitment to diversity, respect, inclusion and learning from one another.
     


    Fernanda L. Cross
    Transitional Postdoctoral Research Fellow

     

    Area of Expertise
    Latinx mixed-status families, undocumented immigrants, ethnic-racial socialization, discrimination experiences, adolescent mental health and academic outcomes


    Jessica A. Wojtalik
    Transitional Postdoctoral Research Fellow

     

    Area of Expertise
    Child abuse and neglect, child maltreatment prevention, neighborhoods, poverty, program evaluation, social policy, parenting


    Kathryn L. Maguire-Jack
    Associate Professor of Social Work

     

    Area of Expertise
    American Indian/Alaska Native Suicide Prevention, Indigenous Youth Resilience, Culturally-Specific Behavioral Health Services, Digitally-Enhanced Participatory Research


    Lisa M. Wexler
    Professor of Social Work

     

    Area of Expertise
    Psychosocial and cognitive interventions, schizophrenia, severe mental illnesses and pathophysiology of mental illness and cognitive impairment

    • July 23, 2019
  10. Lisa Fedina
     
    Lisa Fedina's Research on Child Sex Trafficking Cited in USA Today

    Assistant Professor Lisa Fedina's research on child sex trafficking in the United States was cited in the USA Today story, "Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking targets: 'The more vulnerable the better,' investigator says."

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