News Archive
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As new director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Phillip Browning is acutely aware of the need for strong leadership in social work.
During an inaugural address for the recently resurrected Los Angeles chapter of the Network for Social Work Management (NSWM) hosted by the USC School of Social Work, he emphasized the critical role managers and leaders play in various social work and social services settings.
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For the last four decades, Marleen Wong has dedicated herself to the mental health of traumatized children.
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Lia Andrews, a Master of Social Work student at the USC School of Social Work’s San Diego Academic Center, has been named Up and Coming Student of the Year by the San Diego and Imperial counties region of the National Association of Social Workers-California Chapter for her outstanding leadership, service, and approach to advocacy and outreach.
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Two assistant professors at the USC School of Social Work have been awarded grants by the Southern California Center for Translational Science Institute to study health issues among vulnerable and underserved populations.
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A new program at the USC School of Social Work is bringing postdoctoral scholars into the school’s longstanding tradition of research excellence.
Six promising scholars have been paired with top researchers and faculty members since last fall. Dean Marilyn Flynn said that because research initiatives are becoming increasingly sophisticated and demands on young researchers are complex, it was critical for the school to develop a postdoctoral option.
She said the school has already seen significant benefits from the new research program.
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Rick Newmyer, an adjunct lecturer at the USC School of Social Work, has been named Educator of the Year by the San Diego and Imperial counties region of the National Association of Social Workers-California Chapter for his work educating and training future social workers in service areas such as youth development, transition-age youth and homelessness.