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Professor Iris Chi of the USC School of Social Work is the recipient of a USC Undergraduate Research Award and two faculty research grants from the USC U.S.-China Institute, totaling $26,500.
Chi, an expert in elderly health and gerontology, will use the $10,000 undergraduate research grant to mentor three students, who will assist her in researching the interaction between Chinese immigrant grandparents and their teenage grandchildren. Chi said many of the immigrant grandparents come at the request of their children, who need help taking care of their families.
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In Japan there were decapitations. Hangings in Norway. Group stabbings in Israel. Some say the problems are worse in Italy.
School violence isn't confined to the United States. But until recently there was little communication across borders between researchers, even though some countries like England, Norway and New Zealand have been effectively dealing with violence in schools for decades.
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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. -
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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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 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.