News Archive
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USC has received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how interactive digital games could be designed to improve players' health behaviors and outcomes.
USC joins 11 other research teams supported in this first round of funding from Health Games Research, a national program established to strengthen the evidence base related to the development and use of games to achieve desirable health outcomes.
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The March of Dimes has awarded Tyan Parker Dominguez, an assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, a $25,000 grant through its prematurity research, awareness and education campaign to fund projects aimed at helping families have healthier babies and reducing disparities in birth outcomes.
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The USC School of Social Work has announced the appointment of Micki Gress, PhD to senior clinical fellow in field education. This newly created position is a first at USC and for any social work program in the United States.
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The USC School of Social Work, in conjunction with the National Network for Social Work Managers, led the 19th annual Management Institute on homelessness, a two-day event that attracted 175 participants from all over the country to discuss how to halt the epidemic.
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The USC School of Social Work and USC Rossier School of Education, in collaboration with Peking University's Institute of Population Research, organized the first international conference on evidence-based practice and policymaking for the social sciences in Beijing.
More than 100 Chinese scholars and government officials attended the two-day conference and workshop March 17-18, which represented the initial step of providing a framework for establishing a Chinese center on evidence-based practice in the social sciences at Peking University, the first of its kind in Asia. -
The USC School of Social Work brought its largest-ever contingent of students to the annual National Association of Social Workers Lobby Days in Sacramento, Calif., in March. The two-day event convened more than 100 students who met with state legislators and professional lobbyists, experiencing the political process in action and learning how to organize on issues of importance to social workers.
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Public mental healthcare faces several, often interrelated challenges, from inadequate funding and insurance coverage to paperwork overload and crippling stigma. One of the more remarkable hurdles, however, is simply getting veterans in the field to employ new academic findings in order to be more effective with clients. As it is now, studies show there is a two-decade lag between research and its day-to-day application.
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Annalisa Enrile, clinical assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has been designated a "Vagina Warrior" for her efforts to stop violence against women. She was one of six honorees to receive the award from the Fiipino Women's Network and V-Day, a movement started by The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler to raise awareness and funds to benefit female victims of violence and sexual abuse.
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Kristin Ferguson, an assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, has been awarded a faculty fellowship of $12,000 by the John Randolph Haynes Foundation, a leading supporter of social science research in Southern California.
"These awards are extremely competitive, and it is a great honor for a faculty member in our school to receive this kind of recognition," Dean Marilyn Flynn said.
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The National Institutes of Health has presented Anjanette Wells, a Ph.D. candidate in the USC School of Social Work, a $31,000 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
The pre-doctoral fellowship, which is given to doctoral students working with an advisor in the field of cancer research, will help fund the study she is conducting alongside social work professor Kathleen Ell on retention of low-income and minority cancer patients in depression treatment programs.