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Daphne Watkins Receives Phil Jenkins Award for Innovation in Depression TreatmentAssistant professor Daphne Watkins was selected to receive the U-M Comprehensive Depression Center’s 2014 Phil Jenkins Award for Innovation in Depression Treatment.
- September 8, 2014
Diane Kaplan Vinokur Joins Center for Social Impact at Ross School of BusinessAssociate Professor Diane Kaplan Vinokur is now a Faculty Associate at the Center for Social Impact at the Ross School of Business. She will ensure that the Center for Social Impact will more thoroughly examine topics such as social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and community development.
- September 8, 2014
John Tropman Inducted as Fellow of American Academy of Social Work and Social WelfareProfessor John Tropman was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.
- September 8, 2014
Larry Root to Present at 10th Annual Beijing ForumProfessor Larry Root was invited to present at the 10th annual Beijing Forum, organized by Peking University. He will be part of the panel session on "Social-Economic Development and State Governance in Comparative Perspective".
- September 8, 2014
Lorraine Gutierrez Receives Jane Addams Medallion at Fielder, Brown, Duffy Education Social Justice FestivalProfessor Lorraine Gutierrez received the Jane Addams Medallion for her exceptional long-term organizing work with multicultural communities in Detroit at the Fielder, Brown, Duffy Education Social Justice Festival.
- September 8, 2014
Lorraine Gutierrez, Larry Gant and Katie Richards-Schuster Edited Piece in Journal of Community PracticeProfessor Lorraine Gutierrez, Professor Larry Gant and Assistant Professor Katie Richards-Schuster edited “Community Organization in the Twenty-First Century: Scholarship and Practice Directions for the Future” which was published as the current issue of the Journal of Community Practice.
- September 8, 2014
Luke Shaefer Cited in Financial Times Article on WelfareAssociate professor Luke Shaefer was cited in a Financial Times article, “Are 12 million Americans living on less than $2 a day?”.
- September 8, 2014
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Sue Ann Savas Receives Award via Michigan Department of Human Services to Conduct Pilot Project TestingClinical Assistant Professor Sue Ann Savas received an award from the Administration for Children and Families - Children's Bureau via the Michigan Department of Human Services - Office of Child Support to collect and analyze pilot project test data and report written results to the project partners.
- September 8, 2014
- Ferguson Social Justice Forum Featured in Michigan Daily
The Social Justice Forum - Ferguson, held at the School of Social Work, was featured on the front page of the Michigan Daily on September 4.
- September 4, 2014
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- Former Curtis Center Post-Doc Earns NIH Career Development Award
Cristina Bares, Ph.D. at Virginia Commonwealth University was recently awarded a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for research on "Genetic Contributions to Smoking and Internalizing Problems in Adolescence". The five year award includes training and research on quantitative genetics, genetic epidemiology, and molecular genetics to uncover the genetic-mediated risk factors that lead to problems of anxiety and depression and substance use in adolescence while controlling for an important environmental risk factor to substance use in this age group - peers. The award extends Dr. Bares’ work on the longitudinal development of cigarette use in adolescents by examining how the shared heritability of these behaviors change over a vulnerable development period, by incorporating molecular genetic techniques to assess which genes are responsible for the onset and establishment of problems in adolescence, and when they become important, and by examining how genes interact when adolescents’ peers act as an environmental risk factor. National and international secondary sources of phenotypic and genotypic data will be used during the award as well as a primary data source which will involve ecological momentary assessment of adolescent twins.
Prior to joining the faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Social Work, Cristina received her doctorate from the Joint Program in Social work and Social Science (affiliated with Developmental Psychology) at University of Michigan where she focused on cognitive development and its implication for social work practice. She subsequently completed work on adolescent substance use and it was there that she began integrating mental health and substance use as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UM SSW Curtis Center. Professor Jorge Delva served as Cristina's postdoctoral research fellow mentor. As she transitioned to her faculty position, Dr. Bares became a fellow in the NIDA-funded Early Stage Career Mentoring Program for NIDA Research organized by the National Hispanic Science Network and co-directed by Drs. James Anthony (Michigan State University), Felipe Gonzalez-Castro (University of Texas at El paso, and Hilda Pantin (University of Miami). As part of the career development award, Dr. Bares will work closely with Drs. Kenneth Kendler, Hermine Maes, Todd Webb (VCU) and Robert Miranda (Brown University).- August 29, 2014