Faculty News

Professor Mieko Yoshihama's PhotoVoice Exhibit is on NHK Japanese TV and is also on the home page of the Center for Japanese Studies. The overall goal of the PhotoVoice project is to strengthen the disaster response policies and practices in Japan (and beyond) by engaging the very women affected by the disasters in the analyses of societal conditions and collective efforts to address them.

Assistant Professor David Cordova, Laura Moynihan (MSW student) and Nicole Waller, (MPH student) published " Preventing Substance Abuse and HIV among Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting" in the Journal of Substance Abuse and Alcoholism.

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton is quoted in "How Do You Tell When a Gang is a Gang?" published in the MetroTimes.

Assistant Professor Emily Nicklett was appointed to the 2014 - 2015 Native Investigator Development Program where she will research psychosocial determinants of diabetes outcomes among native elders.

Professor Larry Gant's manuscript "Assessment and Treatment of Drug-Using Individuals with HIV/AIDS" was published in the Third edition of Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients.

Assistant Professor David Cordova's manuscript, "“They Don’t Look at What All Affects Us”: The Role of Ecodevelopmental Factors on Alcohol and Drug Use among Latinos with Physical Disabilities" is published in Ethnicity and Health.

Professor Daniel  Saunders is cited in “Grand Accomplishments in Social Work,” published by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, for his experimental comparison of interventions for men who batter.

Assistant Professor Shawna Lee's research on spanking is sited on the Council & Heal website. The findings revealed that spanking exacerbated aggressive behavior in children. Her article, "Does Warmth Moderate Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Spanking and Child Aggression in Early Childhood?" is published in the journal Developmental Psychology.