School of Social Work News

Associate Dean and Professor Jorge Delva and Assistant Professor David Cordova received a grant from the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center for their proposal, “Preventing Cigarette Use among Urban Adolescents via an m-Health Primary Care Intervention”.

Assistant Professor David Cordova and Associate Professor Brian Perron’s paper, “Trends in the Disapproval and Use of Marijuana among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: 2002-2013” was accepted for publication in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

Assistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt’s paper, "Constant Consumption Smoothing, Limited Investments, and Few Repayments: The Role of Debt in the Financial Lives of Economically Vulnerable Families" was accepted for publication in the June issue of Social Service Review.

The Interprofessional Education Team-Based Clinical Decision Making course won the Provost’s 2015 Teaching Innovation Prize. Back in February it was selected as 1 of 10 finalists (from 57 nominated projects). The course has now been selected as 1 of the 5 winners from these 10 finalists. Associate Professor Brad Zebrack and lecturer Debra Mattison are part of the teaching team for the course. 

Associate Professor Luke Shaefer contends that the poverty debate overlooks crucial changes that have taken place within the population of the poor in The New York Times Op-Ed, “How Poor are the Poor?”.

Clinical psychologist and researcher Adrienne Lapidos and Associate Professor Luke Shaefer received a grant from the U-M Center for Research on Learning & Teaching (CRLT) to collaborate with the School of Dentistry and develop a Dental Hygiene course on Patient- and Family-Centered Care with Diverse Populations.

Emily Bosk successfully defended her dissertation, "All Unhappy Families: Standardization and Child Welfare Decision-Making" and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Sociology. She has accepted an Assistant Professor position with the School of Social Work at Rutgers University.

The Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group is invested in finding ways to convene evaluators and evaluation consumers from across the campus and locally to advance evaluation practice.

This semester, Dr. Stephanie Evergreen, author of Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, delivered the Education Series’ Keynote lecture. Dr. Evergreen is known nationally for her data visualization work and is a highly sought after speaker and consultant. The event was held in conjunction with the School of Social Work mini-course, “Program Evaluation: From Theory to Practice” taught by Sue Ann Savas, Director of the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group.