School of Social Work News

CASC Program Coordinator and LEO Adjunct Lecturer Alice Mishkin received a grant from the U-M Center for Global and Intercultural Study. She will spend three weeks in Palestine and Israel learning about different models of activism and the role of memory and trauma in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Elizabeth Rhodes successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “The Micro-Dynamics of Health and Education Provision in the Slums of Nairobi” and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Political Science. Her committee consisted of Trina Shanks, Anne Pitcher (co-chairs), Luke Shaefer and Pauline Luong.

Marlena Hanlon (MSW'17), Selin Nurgun (MSW'17) and Missy Orr (MSW'16) were selected as 2016 Dow Sustainability Fellows. The Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at U-M supports full-time graduate students who are committed to finding interdisciplinary, actionable and meaningful sustainability solutions on local-to-global scales.

Associate Professor Lydia Li is the program co-chair of the 2016 meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).

John Doering-White received a Wenner-Gren dissertation award for the 2016 academic year.

Laura Sundstrom and Megan Elyse Williams, Evaluation Associates with the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group, were invited to write a post for the American Evaluation Association blog, AEA365.  Their post highlighted the tool they developed for the Program Evaluation Group, the Tiers of Skill Development.  The Tiers of Skill Development intentionally guide students through developing their evaluation skills.  You can read their blog post here.

Lisa O'Donnell successfully defended her dissertation, "An Investigation on Predictors of Occupational Functioning in Individuals with Bipolar Disorder" and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Clinical Science. She has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA.

Daniel Anderson, Nadia Aggour, Alana Kivowitz and Ferdinando Palumbo (all MSW’16) had their poster entitled "Finding Meaning as Social Work Interns at a College Counseling Center" accepted for presentation at the 2016 Big Ten College Counseling Centers Conference at Purdue University.