News Archive
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By Athan G. Bezaitis
On Sept. 25, the USC School of Social Work hosted nine officials from the China National Committee on Aging whose representatives are among the most powerful government officials in China dealing with issues of aging.
The morning began with a tour of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. There, the visitors were welcomed by Zhen Cong, a Chinese-speaking representative of the office of Professor Merril Silverstein, who conducts research on aging in China.
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WHAT: The Network of Korean American Leaders (NetKAL) Fellowship Program, which promotes community-based leadership, is graduating its first class of 24 fellows from the Los Angeles Korean-American community. NetKAL recruits emerging Korean-American leaders from civic, political and business sectors to give them access to the resources they will need to pursue their goals, build coalitions and communicate effectively as empowered leaders at all levels of American society.
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Along with the new academic semester comes a new roster of faces and administrative changes this year at the USC School of Social Work. At the helm remains Marilyn Flynn, whose deanship has been renewed for a third term.
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June Simmons, MSW '70, was aggravated by the immorality and inefficiency of the nation's health care system. But instead of complaining, she turned her frustration into action, and at age 55, established the Partners in Care Foundation to devise new ways of delivering health care. Eight years later, not only has her organization grown tenfold, but she's gaining even more repute as a finalist for The Purpose Prize, which honors social entrepreneurs in their second half of life who are marshalling their accumulated experience to address critical social problems.
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Janet Schneiderman, assistant professor of social work, recently won a grant from the Children and Families Research Consortium to examine the issues foster children caregivers face in accessing and using pediatric health services.
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In recognition of his schizophrenia research to improve the effectiveness of community mental health rehabilitation, John Brekke, the Frances G. Larson Professor of Social Work Research at the USC School of Social Work, received the 2006 Insight Award at PORTALS' 50th Anniversary Golden Bell Awards Gala held in May at the Skirball Cultural Center.
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The Class of 2006 began its journey during what commencement student speaker Maura McGinnis-Gibney recalled as one of the most tumultuous times in world history. From the disastrous tsunami in Southeast Asia and increasing violence in Iraq to the re-election of one of the most controversial presidents in modern times and Hurricane Katrina's destruction of the Gulf Coast, she and her classmates utilized their classrooms - and one another - as outlets to deal with a world evolving literally right before their eyes.
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Sweeping Dreams, a student documentary about housekeepers Milca, Mered and Rosa trying to making a living in Los Angeles, took top honors at the inaugural USC School of Social Work Film Festival.
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USC School of Social Work Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus Rino J. Patti received the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the university's most prestigious faculty honors, at the 2006 Academic Honors Convocation.
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Chinese teens who think of themselves as fat, even if they were normal or underweight, are at a greater risk for depression and school-related stress, a new USC study has found.
Girls who said they were overweight reported an overall grade point average of 3.06 versus 3.20 for other girls, according to the study of nearly 7,000 middle- and high-school students in seven Chinese cities. Boys who felt obese reported being more prone to rudeness and losing their tempers. The study appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior.