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  • Professor Ron Astor, who holds joint appointments in the USC School of Social Work and USC Rossier School of Education, has won the 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). School Violence in Context: Neighborhood, Family, School and Gender, published by Oxford University Press, was co-authored with Professor Rami Benbenishty of Hebrew University.

  • Iris Chi, the Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese Elderly at the USC School of Social Work, is part of an inter-school collaboration that has been awarded $15,000 for research on the aging population in China from the USC U.S.-China Institute. The grant will be used to expand existing research on the needs of the elderly population in China and to explore their impact on Chinese society as a whole.

  • If the 2,000-mile region along the U.S.-Mexico border were a state, it would rank 12th nationally in AIDS cases per capita, says Helen Land, a University of Southern California associate professor in the School of Social Work.

    This hidden population, isolated from their families and living with one of the most misunderstood and stigmatizing diseases of this era, is chronicled in "Outreach and Care Approaches to HIV/AIDS Along the U.S.-Mexico Border" (Haworth), a collection of articles which Land co-edited.

  • The USC School of Social Work is the nation's first school of social work to provide leadership in developing a clinical and translational research institute anticipated to join a national consortium supported by the National Institutes of Health.

  • Kristin Ferguson, assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, is part of an international interdisciplinary research collaborative that was recently awarded a $125,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Higher Education for Development. This three-year project focuses on strengthening the research capacity of professionals in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya, who work with vulnerable children.

  • Peking University has selected USC to be a long-term strategic partner in the development of research and graduate professional education, making USC one of only a few research institutions in the nation to have this level of collaboration with China’s premier institution of higher learning.

  • When the Children’s ScoreCard was released in October, it brought both good news and bad.

    In the last 15 years, the teen birthrate has been halved, child abuse cases have decreased by 22 percent and violent crime dropped by 41 percent. Still, child poverty rates increased by almost 16 percent between 2002 and 2004, and high school graduation rates have shown a downward trend for the past four years.

  • Professors Kristin Ferguson and Haluk Soydan of the USC School of Social Work will team up with the Salvation Army, which has been awarded a $1 million grant, to create and evaluate the Partnership to Rescue Our Minors from Sexual Exploitation (PROMISE). The grant, which will be received over two years, is funded by the Department of Justice and the Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

  • Making a mammogram a part of a woman’s regular check-up is important because early detection is key in beating breast cancer.

    But for years, many low-income, ethnic women who go to the trouble of getting examined fail or delay the next tests such as a repeat mammogram and biopsy – follow-ups that could save their lives.

    Kathleen Ell of the USC School of Social Work thought she might have a way to change that.

  • Leopoldo J. Cabassa, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, will work on two new grants to study the relationship between Hispanics, diabetes and depression, and Hispanics and depression care.