School of Social Work News

Nancy D’Angelo Kusmaul, MSW '00, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the College at Brockport.  She completed her PhD in social welfare at the University at Buffalo in 2013.  Her dissertation is titled “Understanding the Direct Care Workforce in Nursing Homes: A Study of Life Circumstances and Organizational Factors and Their Relationship to Caring Behaviors and Knowledge.”

Nancy Hatcher, MSW '72, was named the Social Worker of the Year and awarded the Jill Solomon Award for Excellence in Social Work by the National Hemophilia Foundation at its annual meeting in November.  Nancy was selected from an elite group of social workers that care for hemophilia patients all across the United States.  Nancy serves on national and regional committees and is a member of the NHF Ethics Advisory Committee.

Nancy Kriseman, MSW '82, has been working with elders and their families for more than 30 years.  In February 2014 Rowman and Littlefield published her book entitled: The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey.

Patricia Wood Davis, MSW '73, received the Pioneer Award from the NASW Foundation. The Foundation is recognizing Dr. Davis as an astute educator, a visionary, an advocate, a mentor and as a stalwart proponent for the rights and equality of the disenfranchised and the underserved.

Assistant Professor Daphne Watkins will present two papers "Lessons learned from the implementation and evaluation of an online mixed methods research continuing education program for social workers" and "A mixed methods study of family support and distress among older, church-going African American men." at the Mixed Methods International Research Association meeting in June.

Assistant Professor David Cordova and Amanda Ciofu (MSW 13) paper, "Exploring Culturally Based Intrafamilial Stressors Among Latino Adolescents,” has been accepted for publication in Family Relations. 

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton talks about his research on gang members, social media and the Internet with Erika Aguilar from Southern California Public Radio.

Katie Lopez was funded, through the LEO Lecturers Professional Development Fund, to attend the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development in Melbourne, Australia where she will be giving a presentation. She will also be conducting site visits for our global field placement students placed there and visiting our institutional partner at the University of Melbourne.