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  1. Lisa O'Donnell
     
    Lisa O'Donnell Successfully Defends Dissertation, "An Investigation on Predictors of Occupational Functioning in Individuals with Bipolar Disorder"

    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.

    • January 6, 2016
  2.  
    MSW Students Daniel Anderson, Nadia Aggour, Alana Kivowitz and Ferdinando Palumbo to Present at 2016 Big Ten College Counseling Centers Conference

    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.

     

    • January 6, 2016
  3. Pinghui Wu
     
    Pinghui Wu Receives International Student Fellowship from Rackham

    Pinghui Wu was awarded an International Student Fellowship from Rackham Graduate School for the 2016 academic year.

     

    • January 6, 2016
  4. Daphne C. Watkins
     
    Daphne Watkins YBMen Project is featured in the latest issue of Concentrate Ann Arbor

    Associate 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
  5.  
    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.

  6. Joseph P. RyanBrian E. Perron
     
    Data Lab Receives Funding from W. K. Kellogg Foundation

    The 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

  7. Julie M. Ribaudo
     
    Julie Ribaudo Interviews with HometownLife on Cordiality at Family Gatherings

    Clinical Associate Professor Julie Ribaudo was interviewed for the HometownLife article, “Kindness Counts: Keeping the Peace at Family Gatherings Key”.

     

  8.  
    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.

  9.  
    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”.

  10.  
    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

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