School of Social Work News

Assistant Professor Emily Nicklett was appointed to the 2014 - 2015 Native Investigator Development Program where she will research psychosocial determinants of diabetes outcomes among native elders.

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton discusses "cyberbanging" in the AP story, "Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home on the Net".

Desmond Patton along with Abigail Williams (PhD student), Bakari Wallace and Sadiq Patel (MSW recent grads), had their paper selected to be presented at the 2014 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting. The paper/presentation is entitled, “Pivotal moments: Experiences with neighborhood violence altering life trajectories for low-income African American adolescents in Flint, MI.”

Sue Ann Savas received a grant from the New York Community Trust to develop a fellows program in 3 non-profits. This project will innovate the field of social work by building and testing the internal capacity for program evaluation in community-based nonprofits.

Professor Larry Gant's manuscript "Assessment and Treatment of Drug-Using Individuals with HIV/AIDS" was published in the Third edition of Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients.

Assistant Professor David Cordova's manuscript, "“They Don’t Look at What All Affects Us”: The Role of Ecodevelopmental Factors on Alcohol and Drug Use among Latinos with Physical Disabilities" is published in Ethnicity and Health.

Professor Daniel  Saunders is cited in “Grand Accomplishments in Social Work,” published by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, for his experimental comparison of interventions for men who batter.

Julie Nagel, MSW '82, PhD '87, author of Melodies of the Mind, had a book signing on October 4, 2013 at The Juilliard School. She also presented at the William Alanson White Conference in New York in October.