Faculty News

Associate Professors Andy Grogan-Kaylor and Shawna Lee’s research was cited in The Irish News article, “Spanking children linked to depression and suicide in later life, study suggests.”

Associate Professor Emily Nicklett’s article, “Social Work and Aging in Place: A Scoping Review of the Literature” was published in Social Work Research.

Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle and Assistant Professor Addie Weaver’s article, “Awareness enhancing and monitoring device plus habit reversal in the treatment of trichotillomania: An open feasibility trial” was published in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Professor Jorge Delva was selected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. He joins the following U-M SSW faculty members who are current Fellows of the Academy: Ruth Dunkle, Lorraine Gutierrez, Rosemary Sarri, Michael Spencer, and John Tropman. 

Associate Professor Shawna Lee received a grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund for a project entitled, "Promoting Infant Health and Wellbeing by Engaging Fathers." This project involves implementing and evaluating a fatherhood home visitation and parent education intervention with low-income fathers in collaboration with 6 Healthy Start home visitation sites in Michigan.

Associate Professor Shawna Lee presented, "Incorporating behavioral science into a smartphone app to reduce fathers’ barriers to participation in fatherhood programs" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research 39th Annual Fall Research Conference in Chicago.

Professor Barry Checkoway was a featured panelist at "Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement: Faculty Outreach in Detroit" which is part of the series theme, "Educational Outreach to Inform, Engage & Inspire: Fulfilling U-M's social contract with the public."

Peter Felsman (PhD student) and Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle received a grant from The Detroit Creativity Project for "The Improv Project" which is a Detroit school-based program that teaches life skills to adolescents through improvisational theater. The program has been found to predict increases in social skills and reductions in social phobia, through survey outcome data.