School of Social Work News

Amanda Tillotson, PhD was selected as a Ford Fellowship Scholar for the 2014-2015 academic year. 

Professor Barry Checkoway's blog, "How to Recruit Black Students at the University of Michigan" is posted in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

At the year-end symposium for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), Devika Sachdev (LSA'16), who worked with Brad Zebrack this year as an undergrad Research Assistant, received the outstanding poster presentation award (second year in a row), for a poster entitled: Psychological Distress and Health-Related Quality of Life for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: The First Two Years Following Diagnosis.

David Cordova recently hosted a town hall meeting for community members in Washtenaw County to voice their experiences and concerns related to mental health issues facing local youth.

Emily Nicklett's article, "Too Little too Late: Socioeconomic Disparities in the Experience of Women Living with Diabetes," was published in SAGE Journals.

Luke Shaefer's report on unemployment was cited in "Fewer Michiganders received unemployment benefits under scaled-back program, report says " from MLive.

Nkemka Anyiwo, PhD was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  The national fellowship is awarded over three years and will begin in the fall.

David Cordova’s paper, "Family Functioning Trajectories and Substance Use and Misuse among Minority Urban Adolescents: A Growth Mixture Model" has been accepted for publication in Substance Use and Misuse.