News Archive
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If you're ever on fire, the rule is to "stop, drop and roll." But doing so in front of an oncoming USC shuttle bus may defeat the purpose, a group of staff members from the School of Social Work demonstrated in a short video made during the school's annual staff retreat on March 18.
This year's theme was emergency preparedness.
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The USC School of Social Work honored head USC football coach Pete Carroll for his efforts to reduce violence and social worker J. David Hawkins for his advances in prevention science at its scholarship gala, "A Celebration of the Heart," held March 8 at the university's Town & Gown.
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The USC School of Social Work has added Puerto Rico to its growing list of global immersion programs in an effort to expand its international outreach and give students another opportunity to explore regional social problems and problem-solving in a different culture.
Diversity in a Caribbean Context: Implications for Social Work is a global immersion program in Puerto Rico that will examine how diversity characterizes and shapes the human experience and is critical to the formation of identity.
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Los Angeles civil rights attorney Connie Rice grew up in a bubble. As the daughter of an Air Force colonel, she lived the typical itinerant military life on various bases where she rarely saw men misbehave. But after leaving for college, Rice learned the true meaning of her mother's advice on dealing with men: You can't let them know how smart you are; men can get easily threatened.
Unfortunately for Rice, she learned the hard way.
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The USC School of Social Work has acquired three academic journals, expanding its potential impact to shape the field and the research being published in these areas.
The journals – Social Development Issues, Home Health Care Quarterly and Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health – are now housed at the school's Hamovitch Center for Science in the Human Services.
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Assistant Professor Dorian Traube has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help develop HIV interventions.
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For more than 25 years, Kathy Ell has conducted extensive research on cancer screening, major depression, general psychological distress, quality of life and morbidity, and mortality associated with life-threatening and chronic illness. She has led ground-breaking clinical studies on cancer screening, timeliness in getting to the hospital for acute cardiac symptoms and depression care among low-income racial and ethnic minorities. And, she was appointed the first executive director of the National Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research.
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The USC School of Social Work and the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, which specializes in longitudinal studies of children at risk for developing mental disorders, have announced a partnership to create a synergy of resources to help advance the field of child mental health and child welfare.
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The USC School of Social Work has named Lawrence A. Palinkas and Ron Avi Astor to two endowed professorships. Both were honored at an installation dinner on Nov. 6 at the USC Davidson Conference Center.
Marilyn Flynn, dean of the School of Social Work, congratulated Palinkas and Astor and noted their significant career accomplishments and the importance of the endowments.
"Endowed professors are heralded," Flynn said. "Their ideas hold a special weight and are deeply respected."
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Scientists, health care providers, public servants and community members must work together in order to save black babies, concluded a panel of USC experts who participated in a forum to discuss the persistently high rates of infant mortality, preterm delivery and low birth weight among African Americans.
"This is not a black problem," said Jack Turman, director of the USC Center for Premature Infant Health and Development. "We might be losing a person who can change the world. Everybody has that potential; everyone deserves an equal chance."