News: Disaster relief efforts
Have You Voted Yet for Our Alumna Becky Straw? She and Her Nonprofit Are Up for DVF Award
Alumna Becky Straw and the co-founder of her nonprofit, The Adventure Project, have been nominated for a DVF Award in the category of The People’s Voice, for their work in the developing world on women’s empowerment.
CSSW Starts Off Women’s History Month with Three Prominent Women Speakers
With the advent of Women’s History Month, Columbia School of Social Work is honored to be hosting three women who are making history in fields related to social work.
Aging Well Is Not an Oxymoron, Says Professor Friedman
Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Friedman insists that contrary to the ageist bias of today, it is possible to age well. Then he explores what “aging well” really means.
CSSW Celebrates Black History Month
Last week a South Carolina court absolved the Friendship Nine of their “trespassing” conviction of 54 years ago for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter. We see this as an apt way to start this year’s celebrations of Black History Month.
WINTER STORM ADVISORY: 1/26 and 1/27/2015
The University has resumed normal operations today, Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Students, please confirm with your field supervisors that your field placement will take place as usual.
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: Alumna Erin Olivo on Making, and Not Breaking, New Year’s Resolutions
What did you resolve to do with your life in 2015: save more money, lose weight, develop a health habit like exercise, get organized? Before you feel tempted to break your goals, listen to alumna Erin Olivo (MSW’95) discuss “wise mind” living.
Dr. Shear Publishes First Clinical Review of Complicated Grief in NEJM
A clinical review of complicated grief by Dr. Katherine Shear in the January 8, 2015, New England Journal of Medicine delivers a fillip for its treatment and diagnosis in medical settings.
Social Work Students, Help Us Continue the Work That Martin Luther King, Jr., Started
On the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, Dean Takamura says that social workers can benefit from “learning about or reacquainting ourselves with one of the most critical periods in the history of the United States,” which continues to shape the present.
Courtney Cogburn Receives Provost’s Diversity Grant for Work on Media Coverage of Ferguson
Assistant Professor Courtney D. Cogburn has been selected to receive a Provost’s Grants Program Award for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, for a project titled “Black Face to Ferguson: A Mixed Methodological Examination of Media Racism, Media Activism and Health.”
Sending Holiday Wishes to Alumna Jennifer Bornemann, Working to Fight Ebola in Liberia
Alumna Jennifer Bornemann (MS’00) has been deployed to Monrovia, Liberia, to care for victims of Ebola. We wish her all the best and our thoughts are with her during the holidays.