School of Social Work News

Professor Lorraine Gutierrez was appointed by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Board as a member of the Commission on Research.

Clinical Assistant Professor Sue Ann Savas received a grant  from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate the Michigan State University, Center for Regional Food Systems (CRFS) which supports a quality food system in Michigan where vulnerable children and families have access to good food, where and farm and food system households can thrive.

She also received a grant from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office to implement a  project-level program evaluation for their Office of Community Engagement.

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor was profiled on the NLS at 50 website which commemorates 50 years of that National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS).

 Assistant Professor Reuben Miller received the Outstanding Mentor Award, awarded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. This past year, he worked with Adrianna Ryba (LSA'18) and Kyle Finnegan (LSA'17) on the Detroit Reentry Study (prison reentry of inner city black men). 

Ann Nguyen successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Social Support Network Typologies and Mental Health among African Americans" and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Psychology. Dr. Nguyen has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.

Professor Emerita Kathleen Coulborn Faller presented “Protections for child witnesses” at the University of Pennsylvania’s One Child, Many Hands: Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare with Frank Vandervort of the U-M Law School.

Professor Daniel Saunders’ article, “Research Based Recommendations for Child Custody Evaluation Practices and Policies in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence” was published in the Journal of Child Custody.

Assistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt discussed her recent paper and research on how people have to take on debt just to maintain their status quo with Michigan Radio’s Stateside with Cynthia Canty.