News Archive
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The USC School of Social Work will offer two new study-abroad opportunities in Israel and China this summer for students who want to explore another culture and different models of social service in an international setting.
The Israel program, convening over a three-week period in June, will focus on social conflict and creative problem-solving, highlighting expressive practice skills. The China course, also a three-week program in May and June, emphasizes Eastern approaches to successful aging in the areas of health, family and social engagement.
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Monica Paz, a graduate student at the USC School of Social Work, has been awarded a $3,000 Consuelo W. Gosnell Scholarship from the National Association of Social Workers.
The scholarship is awarded each academic year to master's degree candidates in social work who have expressed an interest in working with American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic/Latino populations, or in public and voluntary nonprofit agency settings.
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A teenage John Duran was convinced that it was Los Angeles that had done it to him. Raised in a devout Catholic family in the 1970s, it wasn't conceivable that he could actually be gay. So he skipped town for what he thought would be the straighter pastures of Orange County. He got a job at Disneyland, believing the family atmosphere would set him on the right path. Three weeks later, he was dating Peter Pan. He knew there was no more running away from it – he was gay.
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The Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership at the USC School of Social Work has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Overseas Korean Foundation to conduct a national study that will investigate the overall quality of life for first- and second-generation Korean-Americans living in Southern California and the metropolitan areas of Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Vasanthi Srinivasan, a professor from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, is beamed to a USC classroom as the day's guest lecturer. She pulls the shades on the setting sun and welcomes the pupils she sees on her computer screen. Half a universe away, it's another beautiful Southern California morning.
It's business as usual for the USC School of Social Work students taking Professor Michálle Mor Barak's global diversity management class. They know there is no better way to learn about diversity around the world than from their international neighbors – literally.
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The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) awarded Maanse Hoe, PhD '07, the 2008 Outstanding Social Work Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Longitudinal Relationships of Cognitive Deficits, Symptoms, and Social Functioning Outcomes in Community-based Psychosocial Rehabilitation Programs: Mechanisms of Longitudinal Change."
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Tam Dinh, a Ph.D. candidate from the USC School of Social Work, has been awarded a two-year pre-doctoral research fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for more than $30,000.
NIMH provides grants to promising doctoral students to help prepare them for careers as mental health researchers who can conduct innovative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research relevant to its mission of research focused on understanding, treating and preventing mental disorders and promoting mental health.
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The National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Sciences has awarded Qiaobing Wu, a Ph.D. candidate in the USC School of Social Work, a $7,500 doctoral dissertation research improvement grant, making her the school's first doctoral student to receive funding from this source.
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Melissa Edmondson, a Ph.D. candidate in the USC School of Social Work, has received a $20,000 pre-doctoral minority fellowship from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which can be renewed for another two years. The highly competitive fellowship is awarded to ethnic minority students completing their social work doctoral studies who are devoted to the development of mental health and substance abuse research that improves the social well-being of minority communities.
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Veronica Mones, a master of social work candidate in the USC School of Social Work nurse social work practitioner program, has been awarded a $9,000 Gene and Marilyn Nuziard Healthcare Scholarship.
The scholarship, originated by the QueensCare board of directors to honor Gene and Marilyn Nuziard for their 16 years of service developing programs for the underserved of Los Angeles county, is given to students in financial need who pursue an education in the healthcare profession.