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Daphne Watkins YBMen Project is featured in the latest issue of Concentrate Ann ArborAssociate Professor Daphne Watkins project Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) is featured in Concentrate. Her project, is a social media-based intervention that seeks to combat that lack of support, information and conversation around critical issues affecting what Watkins calls "a minority within a minority."
- January 4, 2016
- Office of Student Services Receives Seventh Annual Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award
The Office of Student Services Team was selected to receive the Seventh Annual Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award. In close partnership between the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion and Academic Affairs and the Associate Vice President for Human Resources, the Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award was established to shine a light on those staff members who work toward achieving a welcoming, supportive and inclusive working environment.
- December 27, 2015
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Data Lab Receives Funding from W. K. Kellogg FoundationThe Child and Adolescent Data Lab, directed by Associate Professors Joe Ryan and Brian Perron received an award from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to include educational data in their studies
- December 23, 2015
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Julie Ribaudo Interviews with HometownLife on Cordiality at Family GatheringsClinical Associate Professor Julie Ribaudo was interviewed for the HometownLife article, “Kindness Counts: Keeping the Peace at Family Gatherings Key”.
- December 17, 2015
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- Mathieu Despard Named Faculty Associate at Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion
Assistant Professor Mathieu Despard was named a Faculty Associate at the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion, a division of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
- December 14, 2015
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- Reuben Miller to be Member of Institute for Advanced Study
Assistant Professor Reuben Miller was invited to be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. One of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, the Institute exists to encourage and support curiosity-driven research in the sciences and humanities.
Miller will spend the 2016-17 academic year at the Institute, writing a series of articles on prisoner reentry based on his research in Detroit, MI, Glasgow, UK, and Belgrade, Serbia, while completing a draft of his book, “Halfway Home: Race, Redemption and the Right to a Second Chance”.
- December 10, 2015
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- SSW Master's Programs Re-Accredited by CSWE
SSW's MSW programs were officially re-accredited by the Council on Social Work Education for the next eight years (until October, 2023).
- December 7, 2015
Luke Shaefer's Book Named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015Associate Professor Luke Shaefer's book, "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America" was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015.
- December 4, 2015
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Kristin Seefeldt Cited in The Atlantic on Poor Single MothersAssistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt was cited in The Atlantic article, “How Poor Single Moms Survive”.
- December 3, 2015
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- Gary Stauffer Receives 2015 Rohnke Creativity Award for Commitment to Experiential Education
Family Assessment Clinic social worker and LEO Lecturer Gary Stauffer received the 2015 Karl Rohnke Creativity Award from the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) on October 23 at the AEE International Conference. AEE Awards Committee Chair Elizabeth Speelman said, “Professionally and personally, Gary demonstrates an outstanding commitment to experiential education principles. Gary’s heart and spirit exist on this planet to help people find strength within themselves through creative play and interventions.”
AEE presents this award annually to an individual whose outstanding commitment to experiential education principles are evidenced through the design, creation and/or production of experiential education resources.
- November 24, 2015