Category: Fellow News
On Social Policy and Research – “The State of Scholarship and the Profession; What Is Promising, and What Needs to Be Done”
Great reading from Academy and Grand Challenges authors on social work research and scholarship: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/701198
NIH Awards Grant to Jonson-Reid
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Academy Fellow and Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work Research at Washington University in St. Louis, is part of a team that received nearly 6.5 million dollars from the NIH to establish the Child Maltreatment Policy Research and Training Center. Read more here.
Getting to Know Fellow Gail Steketee
Former Dean and Boston University professor emeritus Gail Steketee is formally retired. But spend 5 minutes with her and you’d never know. An involved Academy board member, “vintage dancer” and renowned scholar on hoarding, Steketee shows absolutely no signs of slowing down. She’s soon to publish another edition of the Oxford University Press series dubbed
A talk on high performance and leadership from Fellow John Tropman
Academy Board member John Tropman teaches in University of Michigan’s School of Social Work, Business School and Executive Leadership program. In this podcast he talks leadership in a podcast and delves into orchestrating high performing persons into high performing organizations. Listen here: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/107198/the-challenges-of-leadership
Class of 2019 Fellow Katherine Magnuson receives award
University of Wisconsin Madison’s Katherine Magnuson has been awarded the Wisconsin Partnership Program Award. Magnuson, a 2019 Academy Fellow, will focus focus on improving health outcomes in early childhood education through the award. More….
Fellow Macy on domestic violence
Discussion on domestic violence and organizations who assist from Fellow Rebecca J. Macy at UNC Chapel Hill: https://chapelboro.com/focus-carolina
Domestic violence and children: reviews from Fellow Jeffrey Edleston
Fellow and USC Dean Jeffrey Edleson reviews 31 articles in this journal entry that expands common definitions of how children witness adult domestic violence.
Award for Fredriksen-Goldsen
Academy Fellow Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen has been named the 2018 recipient of the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging by the American Gerontological Society of America. Read more on her award.
Edleston featured on New Zealand Public Radio
UC Berkeley Dean and Fellow Jeffrey Edleston is an expert on the Hague Convention and domestic violence. He was featured on New Zealand public radio on a local case. Read more:
Delva Receives New Appointment
Boston University Dean Jorge Delva was recently appointed as director of the BU Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH). More……