Associate Professor Cristina Bares has received an award from the Council of Social Work Education's Katherine A. Kendall Institute for International Social Work Education. The award will fund the development of a new course in the Global Social Work Pathway, which will prepare MSW students to work in a global environment by engaging with instructors from multiple institutions — particularly institutions from the Global South. Students will also develop anti-racist and decolonizing skills through intergroup dialogue. “I am very excited to bring this content to our students so that they may enhance their interpersonal skills through a lens of global social justice,” said Bares.
Associate Professor Cristina Bares will serve as a co-chair for the 2019 National Hispanic Science Network Conference. The network promotes interdisciplinary and translational research across a broad range of disciplines on a national and international front. Since its inception in 2001, the network – in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Eye Institute – has made great strides to advance the field of Hispanic drug use research.
Assistant Professor Cristina Bares gave her Feast of Ideas talk, "Genes and the Environment: How the Environment Gets Under the Skin" on Thursday evening, as part of the Umich Bicentennial Fall Festival.
Assistant Professor Cristina Bares’ article, “Nicotine dependence, internalizing symptoms, mood variability and daily tobacco use among young adult smokers” was published in Addictive Behaviors.
Assistant Professor Cristina Bares’ article, “Familial and Special Twin Influences on Cigarette Use Initiation” was published in Twin Research and Human Genetics.
Assistant Professor Cristina Bares was accepted into the 2017 University of Michigan Medical School Mentored Research Academy.
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