Author Archive
Meet New Faculty Member Jon Phillips
Jon Phillips is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. He is a licensed social worker with extensive direct practice experience working with children, youth, and families involved in the child welfare system. His research examines how interprofessional and interagency collaboration in the child welfare system affects the families who are served by […]
Cristina Wilson Appointed Research Director
Dr. Cristina Mogro-Wilson, Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, has been appointed Research Director at UConn Health, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Dr. Wilson will provide interdisciplinary leadership to the UCEDD, university, state and nation by identifying, developing, and evaluating research initiatives that benefit persons in Connecticut influenced and affected […]
New Book Examines Issues Facing Refugees and Asylum Seekers
A new book by a pair of School of Social Work faculty members covers the legal, historical, and contemporary issues facing refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In twelve contributed chapters compiled and edited by S. Megan Berthold and Kathryn Libal, the book spans international human rights and humanitarian law as […]
SSW Represented at the 2019 Annual Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards
The Provost’s Office, UConn Alumni and The Women’s Center annually sponsor the Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awards, which recognizes undergraduate and graduate women students who have excelled academically within their school or college and demonstrated high achievement in research and service to the University community. This year, Alysse Loomis PhD ’19 and Aliyah Henry […]
Intern of the Year Award
Anastasia Campos received the Intern of the Year award from the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI). She had the exciting opportunity to intern with two programs at CIRI. In the Survivor Services program, Ana was responsible for providing trauma-informed social service assistance to survivors of torture and their families. She assisted clients in […]
Johanna Schubert ’19, Social Work
"In July of 2016, I attended a Community and School Violence Prevention Symposium that was sponsored by UConn. Afterward, I looked into UConn’s curriculum and really identified with the community organizing track," says Johanna Schubert.
School of Social Work Recognizes Five Long-Time Field Instructors/Advisors
Field Education has been recognized by the Council on Social Work Education as the signature pedagogy for social work. Our MSW students spend 560 hours per year for two years serving as interns in a wide range of agencies throughout Connecticut and in some neighboring states. “We could not prepare our students for successful professional […]
Researchers Propose Innovative Idea to Prevent Child Neglect
The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN) held a competition inviting professionals to share their most disruptive ideas on how to end child abuse and neglect. UConn faculty members Megan Feely (SSW) and Kerri Raissian (Public Policy) and colleagues Lindsey Bullinger and William Schneider submitted a paper that proposes to prevent child […]
Doctoral Student Recipient of Human Rights Institute Research Award
Doctoral student Grace Felten, was recently selected as a recipient of UConn’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) Research Grant Award for the 2018-19 academic year. HRI’s competitive graduate student research grants support and promote projects on human rights related issues for graduate students in all disciplines at UConn. The grant competition prioritizes a range of primary research […]
PhD Student Selected Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar
Alberto Cifuentes Jr. received $5000 from the Proctor & Gamble/Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) to support his dissertation research. He will be focusing his research on the direct and indirect effects of stigma on the health outcomes of commercial sex workers. “I am very grateful to Procter & Gamble/Hispanic Scholarship Fund for this scholarship that will […]