School of Social Work
White House Honors Dr. Cato Laurencin with National Medal of Technology and Innovation
UConn Health's Dr. Cato T. Laurencin was honored by Pres. Barack Obama at the White House on May 19 with a National Medal of Technology & Innovation, the nation's highest honor for technical achievement.
UConn Law, Social Work Contingent Devotes Spring Break to Helping Asylum Seekers
Ten UConn Law students spent spring break interviewing immigrant detainees behind the walls of the York County Prison in Pennsylvania and working late into the night to help prepare their asylum applications.
Two Social Work Faculty Receive Prestigious InCHIP Seed Grants
Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD, Associate Professor, and Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, Assistant Professor, were each recently awarded prestigious InCHIP Seed Grant Awards from the UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy. Dr. Werkmeister Rozas received a $15,000 faculty seed grant for her study “Innovative Diabetes Prevention & Disease Self-Management Intervention for Latino Families.” This […]
Helping Asylum-Seekers Prepare for the Courts
A group of UConn law and social work students will spend Spring Break assisting women asylum-seekers detained at a federal immigration center.
Social Work Students Head to Capitol Hill
The students went to D.C. to learn about and lobby for issues related to the well-being of the clients and communities they serve.
MSW Student Overcomes Obstacles to Find Success
Precious Price’s early years were tough. She was born to a single mother, the fourth of six children. “I grew up in and out of foster care placements.” At 12, she was placed in foster care until she aged out at 22. “I ended up in several different placements while in care, but remained in […]
Three SSW Faculty Receive Scholarship Facilitation Fund Grants
The UConn Vice President for Research awarded three Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) grants to School of Social Work faculty for the spring 2016 semester. The grants will facilitate the growth of extramural research and increase scholarly publications produced by faculty. This builds on the School’s success in receiving these awards. In 2015, the VPR awarded grants […]
Collaborations with State Agencies Yields High-Impact Research
The School of Social Work maintains robust partnerships with the State of Connecticut, linking social work researchers with state agencies, such as DMHAS and DCF. “These are important collaborations because social work is a research discipline and profession, and it’s also a practice profession,” says Dr. Nina Rovinelli Heller, dean of the School of Social […]
UConn Partners with State on Child Welfare Project
The federally funded program seeks to prepare an ethnically and linguistically diverse group of social workers to work with vulnerable children and families.
SSW Hires Three Tenure Track Faculty
Dean Nina Rovinelli Heller announced the appointments of three new tenure-track assistant professors to begin in Fall 2016. “Together, these three candidates bring excellent research and scholarship achievement and potential as well as teaching, practice and community engagement skills”, she said. “Their focus on violence prevention in child welfare, interpersonal violence and corrections will significantly […]