News Archive
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Ron Avi Astor, a professor who holds joint positions in the USC School of Social Work and USC Rossier School of Education, was given the second place distinction by the American Psychological Association's Division One 2006 William James Book Award. The accolade, which honors outstanding scientific volume in general psychology across specialty areas, was awarded to Astor along with co-author Rami Benbenishty of Hebrew University for their book School Violence in Context: Neighborhood, Family, School and Gender, published by Oxford University Press in 2005.
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Kathleen Ell, the Ernest P. Larson Professor of Health, Ethnicity and Poverty at the USC School of Social Work, has received a $250,000 grant from the California Health Care Foundation to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a program designed to improve depression care among low-income ethnic minority patients with congestive heart failure.
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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.