News Archive
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As part of an ongoing relationship with the Korean-American community in Los Angeles and abroad, the USC School of Social Work hosted a reception at the Radisson Wilshire Plaza Hotel on April 6 to announce the grand opening of the newly endowed Center for Asian Pacific Leadership Development.
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Janet Schneiderman, R.N., Ph.D., assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, and Roseann Mulligan, D.D.S., M.S., professor and associate dean for community health programs at the USC School of Dentistry, have received a USC Urban Initiative Grant to evaluate the oral health and adherence to follow-up care among individuals with cognitive impairments.
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The USC School of Social Work celebrated the grand opening of the Randall Information Center and the installation of 'Connections,' a mural depicting diverse images of the academic experience, both of which were made possible by a generous gift from the James H. Randall Family Foundation.
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The University of Southern California School of Social Work will host its annual black-tie fundraising dinner, 'A Celebration of the Heart, 85th Anniversary Gala,' on Sunday, Mar. 6, at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills. This year's theme, 'Honoring the Past, Inventing the Future,' commemorates the university's 125th anniversary, as well as the school's own 85-year legacy of helping solve important social problems while attracting the best faculty and students for educating tomorrow's leaders.
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While the backbone of today's global economy is an increasingly diverse workforce, many individuals still perceive themselves as outsiders, according to a new book by University of Southern California Professor Michàlle Mor Barak.
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In recognition of their exemplary public service, scholarly accomplishments and distinction in teaching, Ron Astor, Ph.D. and Jacquelyn McCroskey, D.S.W. have been promoted to the rank of full professor, announced Dean Marilyn Flynn of the USC School of Social Work.
"We are fortunate to have such outstanding leadership on our faculty," Dean Flynn said.
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The USC School of Social Work and the Los Angeles Unified School District will host Oscar-nominated Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the popular documentary film "Super Size Me," in a dialogue with high school students, teachers and social workers on Feb. 17 from 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at Manual Arts High School located at 4131 South Vermont in Los Angeles.
The event brings together students from Belmont, Marshall, Monroe, Venice and Manual Arts High Schools in an open and candid exchange with Spurlock on his film about the perils of a modern fast-food lifestyle.
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The National Association of Latino Elected & Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund has invited Associate Professor Maria Aranda, Ph.D., to be a presenter for the "Latino Mental Health: Youth, Women, and the Elderly" session of the California Policy Institute on Health: Mental Health and Substance Abuse conference on Feb. 12 in Palm Springs, Calif.
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PhD candidate Leopoldo Cabassa from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis presented his preliminary findings from his NIMH-funded study and dissertation, "Hispanic Immigrants' Intentions to Seek Depression Care" today in the Hamovitch Research Center.
Cabassa's other research interests include:
- Access to mental health services
- Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care
- Acculturation
- Sociocultural factors and mental health
- Suicide
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The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Kathleen Ell, D.S.W, $2.95 million to research the treatment of major depression among Hispanic patients with diabetes, which comes on the heels of a similar grant for $2.6 million from the National Cancer Institute to examine depression among Hispanic patients with cancer.