Associate Professor Aidyn Iachini has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and commissioned policy briefs and reports. But two years of work was recently completed with the release of her new book.
Dean Sarah Gehlert was in San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 13 to receive a prestigious award from the American Public Health Association.
Anaida Malkhasian's hometown of Ulan-Ude, Russia is 6,480 miles from the University of South Carolina campus. Interestingly, after earning her undergraduate degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Russia, it was not Malkhasian who chose UofSC but another organization that brought her to the Palmetto State.
The College of Social Work will be represented at the Council on Social Work Education's 64th Annual Program Meeting from Nov. 8-11, 2018 with several presentations by our faculty, staff and Ph.D. students.
After earning her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at El Paso, Elizabeth Polinsky, LISW-CP, moved east to attend the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. She not only earned her Master of Social Work degree but also a graduate certificate in Social Work with Military Members, Veterans and Military Families.
Professor Sue Levkoff has taught at five universities for 40 years. During that time, she has served as director of university institutes and centers and presented nationally and internationally on gerontology and aging. Her publications have also been cited more than 8,000 times.
Immigration policy is rapidly changing and affecting immigrants, refugees and communities. On Nov. 1 at the Russell House, the College of Social Work hosted an Immigration Panel to discuss this important issue.
October is Relationship Violence Awareness Month, and one Bachelor of Social Work student helped lead a drive to support a local women's shelter for victims of domestic violence.
Aaron Guest earned a bachelor's degree and a dual degree Master of Social Work/Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. He also received certificates of graduate studies in gerontology and health communications. His academic and field education experience at the College of Social Work helped prepare him for his current doctoral studies.
New Jersey native Dominique Fay earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of South Carolina. She decided to remain in Columbia to earn her Master of Social Work, thanks to the college's Advanced Standing program.
Assistant Professor Christina Andrews, a leading researcher on opioid use disorder treatment, has helped shape Medicaid policy by sharing her research with the U.S. House of Representatives and publishing in such-nationally recognized journals as Health Affairs and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Assistant Professors Breanne Grace and Benjamin Roth investigated how personal, social and institutional uncertainty and instability causes fear for basic daily interactions of immigrants and refugees in their article, The Violence of Uncertainty - Undermining Immigrant and Refugee Health, which was published in the Sept. 6, 2018 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Led by MSW students and Rural Interprofessional Behavioral Health Scholars Madeline Cook, Samantha McKenzie and Tierney Rhone, the College of Social Work is organizing a drive to collect and provide essential supplies to hurricane victims in the Pee Dee region of northeastern South Carolina.
MSW Advanced Year student Brianna Jenkins came to Columbia to study at Allen University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in social science, with a concentration in human services. But she decided to stay in South Carolina's capital city to attend the College of Social Work.
Terri Hallman, LISW-CP, attended the College of Social Work while balancing life as a wife and mother. She received her Master of Social Work degree in 2015 and currently works for the South Carolina Department of Mental Health as a Child, Adolescent and Family Therapist - Clinic-Based.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is an organization with a mandate to protect refugees and other stateless people. Assistant Professor Breanne Grace, who studies solutions to statelessness in East Africa, was invited in January to present her work at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and use their official archive for her research.
Higher education often opens doors and provides opportunities for students who thought were unattainable. One Bachelor of Social Work student recently completed a summer research project as part of a program to help prepare undergraduates for graduate school and beyond.
College of Social Work alumna Karen Rotabi has advocated and testified in court to prevent Guatemalan immigrant women from returning to the violent conditions of their home country.
The College of Social Work's i3 will host a Learning Exchange on Aug. 10 to review and recognize participating organizations as part of a human-centered design pilot program.
Alumna Jessica Hare shares her memories of the College of Social Work and why she chose the social work profession.
A run-down house in a Northeast Columbia neighborhood will receive a complete, modern renovation thanks to a collaboration between the University of South Carolina's SmartHOME Center for Economic Excellence and several community organizations.
After living in a homeless shelter in Tennessee, Samantha Favor's family relocated to Columbia during her senior year of high school, circumstances led her to Palmetto Place, a shelter directed by a Carolina MSW graduate. Now, Samantha is earning her own MSW at the College of Social Work.
Katrina Spigner earned her MSW as a single mother while working and raising two children. Now, the Dr. Katrina E. Spigner Endowed Fellowship Fund will assist MSW students facing the challenges of pursuing an education while raising a family alone.
According to College of Social Work professor Christina Andrews, Ph.D., the United States is losing more people now to opioid overdose than at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Andrews and other researchers in the College of Social Work are working to stem the tide of opioid abuse by studying the availability and quality of treatment and by improving drug use screenings.
The College of Social Work's I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Justice hosted University of Colorado, Department of Psychology Professor Joshua Correll, who discussed how an individual's race can influence a police officer's decision to shoot.