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  • As a police officer on the streets of Atlanta, Jaymie Lorthridge had her fair share of tough calls. Among the most difficult were those involving children in unsafe situations. Unless she responded to the same location for another incident, Lorthridge rarely had the chance to see what happened to those children after they left her custody.

    One particular experience has stuck with her through the years. Called out to an apartment for one reason or another, she found a tiny baby, several months old at most, left alone on a bed in the empty residence.

  • As soon as Erika Braxton-White saw her 10-year-old client, she knew he was struggling with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. He couldn’t sit still in class for more than a couple of minutes, and what’s worse, he had started to exhibit aggressive behavior, which had led to multiple suspensions.

  • Jeremy Goldbach, an assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has been awarded a grant from the USC James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund to develop a measure of stress for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adolescents.

    The award of $24,195 will help Goldbach collect valuable pilot data for an ongoing project examining how chronic stress associated with identifying as a sexual minority contributes to negative outcomes among LGBT adolescents.

  • USC School of Social Work postdoctoral fellow Patricia Lee King has published a literature review on the validity of postpartum depression screening across socioeconomic groups in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

    King evaluated how closely screening tools used to measure postpartum depression adhered to the standard definition of the disorder, as well as the potential bias that could be introduced by those tools when conducting studies with women of low socioeconomic status.

  • During a three-day tour of USC, retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus met with social work students learning to serve veterans returning from war, viewed a high-tech virtual patient with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and gave a highly anticipated speech to hundreds of student veterans.

    At a dinner on March 26 honoring more than 600 USC student veterans and members of the university’s long-running ROTC program, Petraeus said that never in the country’s history has a generation of young soldiers served so long in combat or on so many tours of duty abroad.

  • For Paul Beigelman, giving to the University of Southern California is a top priority.

    “Next to my family, USC is the No. 1 recipient of favors of my trust,” he said. “I bleed cardinal and gold.”

    That’s why Beigelman, MD ’48, chose to honor his late wife, Irene Beigelman, MSW ’57, with a gift of $25,000 toward the establishment of a scholarship at the USC School of Social Work for a Master of Social Work student who plans to work in the health field.

  • USC deans Marilyn L. Flynn and Karen Symms Gallagher received the first Provost’s Prize for Innovation in Educational Practice at the Academic Honors Convocation on April 23.

    The prize recognizes members of the USC community for their exceptional achievement that advances the university’s mission and its role as a leader in higher education.

  • Adding social gaming elements to a behavior tracking program led people to exercise more frequently and helped them decrease their body mass index, according to new research from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC School of Social Work and the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

  • Scholars at the USC School of Social Work are taking advantage of innovative technology to engage with faculty and doctoral students at two other leading universities without ever leaving campus.

    As part of an interuniversity colloquium with colleagues at UC Berkeley and UCLA, doctoral students and faculty members have been sharing their research and exchanging feedback on topics of aging, organizations and management, and child development using videoconferencing technology offered by the school’s Virtual Academic Center.

  • John Gaspari, executive director of the USC Center for Work and Family Life (CWFL), is the 2013 recipient of the USC President’s Award for Staff Achievement, which recognizes a full-time staff member who has made outstanding contributions to university life and enhanced morale, and demonstrated an enthusiastic Trojan spirit.