News Archive
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Six professors of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work are recognized among the top 2% of scientists in the world for 2023 in a study by Elsevier and Stanford University. The ranking considers 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields. Based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database, it represents approximately 100,000 scientific researchers from a pool of more than 8 million globally.
The school’s faculty named for 2023 are:
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On November 5, 2024, Danny Hang, MSW ’11, the son of refugees from the Vietnam War who grew up in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, won his first election to public office. As a new member of the West Hollywood City Council, he is proud to represent the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as one of the only members of color. The inspiration to mount a political campaign, Hang says, began with his educational experience at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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Susan Hess, associate teaching professor of practicum education at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, has been appointed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to the first-ever Women’s Advisory Board.
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Tracie Kirkland, associate teaching professor in the Department of Nursing at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, has received the most prestigious recognition in the nursing profession, selection as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. The 2024 cohort of distinguished inductees were honored at the annual Health Policy Conference: Courageous Transformations Towards an Equitable Future in Washington, D.C.
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In early 2022, Valeria Iniesta-Guzman, MSN ’23, was placed with a street medicine mobile unit providing care for the homeless population in Santa Ana, California. It was one of her clinical internship requirements for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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María P. Aranda, the Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger professor in Social Policy and Administration and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, is named the 2024 recipient of the Research Recognition Award from the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA). The award acknowledges trailblazers who are paving the way in the field of aging, particularly among Hispanic older adults, in the United States.
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Trauma-informed care is moving toward the forefront of mental health treatment today, but often those most at risk for trauma — people of color, those with lower socioeconomic status, immigration status issues and other marginalized groups — experience the most difficulty in accessing this focused care.
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In the 2023-2024 season, the USC Trojan Boxing Club had five athletes on the winner’s podium at the U.S. Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) National Championships, including the award for Best Male Boxer of the Tournament. It also produced USC’s first ever National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) champion, Jordan King, a business administration major at USC Marshall School of Business. King received The John J. Fitzpatrick 2024 Most Outstanding Boxer Male award for his performance at the NCBA championships.
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For college student athletes, realizing your dream of playing at an elite level and all the pressures that come with it can take a toll. Approximately a third of collegiate athletes experience depression or anxiety, while suicide rates among National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes have doubled since 2002.
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When Cat Birkenfeld, BA ’23, was a child, she passed a juvenile detention camp on her way to school every day. She remembers peppering her mother with questions about why those kids were there. The bridge between their experiences seemed to her both insurmountably vast and also merely a matter of chance.