Faculty News

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.

Professor Larry Gant and Laura De Palma (MSW) wrote a column, "Work Practice in the 21st Century" in the Huffington Post to honor social work month.

Associate Professor Trina Shanks's new book "The Assets Perspective - The Rise of Asset Building and it's Impact on Social Policy" is available on Amazon.

Assistant Professor Daphne Watkins aritcle, "The Discipline’s Escalating Whisper: Social Work and Black Men’s Mental Health" was published in Research on Social Work Practice.

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton has a paper, "Social media as a vector for youth violence: A review of literature" published in Computers in Human Behavior.

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor's quantitative research on Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) enterprises is published in the "Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal".

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor and Assistant Professor Shawna Lee's research on spanking was featured in the Washington Post and CBS Detroit.

Professor Lary Gant was interviewed on NPR about providing opportunities for college students to get out of their classrooms and to take what they're learning and put it into practice in Detroit.