News Archive
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The American Psychological Association has awarded the University of Southern California with a Best Practices Honor for fostering a psychologically healthy work environment, crediting its Center for Work & Family Life for successfully addressing work-life challenges.
The center, which is affiliated with the USC School of Social Work, is an employee assistance program for faculty, staff and their dependents to obtain free, confidential counseling and resources on personal and work-related concerns. USC was the first to introduce the concept of an EAP in a university setting.
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The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging and USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative presented a screening of "Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed," an award-winning documentary that tells the shocking and inspiring life story of Vertus Hardiman—the victim of a horrifying medical experiment.
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Lillian Hawthorne, 88, died on Feb. 20, 2013, in Brooklyn, New York. Professor emerita and assistant dean for student affairs at the USC School of Social Work, Hawthorne, MSW '71, is credited with transforming the school’s field education program, the first to conceptualize field experience as pedagogy.
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Michalle Mor Barak, the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professor in Social Work and Business in a Global Society Professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received a $35,000 grant from the Borchard Foundation’s Center on International Education to hold an international colloquium at the Chateau de la Bretesche in Missillac, France.
The Borchard Foundation offers four grants a year to academicians interested in creating a bridge between France and the United States through scholarship and creativity in cultural, academic and public affairs.
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People with severe mental illness die an average of 20 to 30 years younger than the general population, an alarming trend that caught the attention of John Brekke, a professor with the USC School of Social Work.
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USC School of Social Work alumnus Robert Rueda, who is now the Stephen H. Crocker Professor in Education and a professor of educational psychology at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Education (NAEd).
As an honorific society, the academy consists of up to 200 U.S. members and up to 25 international associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or outstanding contributions to education.
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Associate Professor Helen Land has been named senior editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, which will join the five other publications held at the USC School of Social Work.
Land, who has been with the journal since its inception 10 years ago, will work with an esteemed group of co-editors that include professors Larry Gant of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Nathan Linsk of the University of Illinois School of Social Work in Chicago, and Dexter Voisin of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
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Charles Kaplan, research professor and associate dean of research at the USC School of Social Work, has been recognized by Drug and Alcohol Dependence, one of the top journals in the addictions field, as being among the top 5 percent of the journal’s reviewers.
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Before learning about the USC School of Social Work’s master’s degree program at a graduate school fair, Nicholas Borrelli had never given the field of social work a second thought, nor had he expected it to change the course of his life.
Borrelli grew up in a military family with a father in the U.S. Marine Corps. So, enlisting in the military was second nature to Borrelli.
“I loved G.I. Joe when I was a kid, and I wanted to be a real American hero,” he said. “I wanted to serve my country.”
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Aileen Hongo calls them ladies.
This small act of politeness may seem like nothing to most people. But as she sits in a folding chair next to these women — these ladies — Hongo recognizes that for many of them, even the most basic courtesies may be all that they will ever know.