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Grant-funded UB research to analyze women’s digital safety
2/24/26
A Gates Foundation grant will fund Associate Professor Nadine Shaanta Murshid’s project to develop the first measure of women’s digital safety in Bangladesh and other low- and middle-income countries.
Reimagining Black futures: UB events explore Black histories and voices
2/19/26
In honor of Black History Month, the UB School of Architecture and Planning, School of Social Work, and Office of Inclusive Excellence hosted “Reimagine Black Futures During the Age of Authoritarianism: 100 Years of Celebrating Black History.”
UB-led research examines how tech can help mothers separated from newborns
2/10/26
When children are transferred to another hospital’s NICU, parents can connect via video messaging.
UB researchers examine racial differences using secondary traumatic stress scale among child welfare workers
1/26/26
The study tests the validity of the STS scale across racial and gender differences.
Study highlights link between hostile racism and suicide risk in young Black adults
1/13/26
Work suggests that hostile racism associated with a 15% increase in suicide ideation, and 13% increase in suicide attempts.
Ball, Nam named SSWR fellows
1/12/26
Annahita Ball and Yunju Nam, associate professors in the School of Social Work, have been named fellows by the Society for Social Work and Research.
SSWR honors Murshid with book award
1/8/26
The Society for Social Work and Research has honored Associate Professor Nadine Shaanta Murshid for her book, Intimacies of Violence: Reading Transnational Middle-Class Women in Bangladeshi America.
The Moynihan Report: Examining its legacy 60 years later
12/11/25
A moderated panel of interdisciplinary UB faculty members met to discuss the influential and controversial Moynihan Report of 1965.
Those helping the homeless are hurting too, according to study
11/19/25
Paper by UB researcher links homeless services workers’ burnout to adverse childhood experiences.
UB MSW/PhD student receives CSWE Minority Fellowship
10/20/25
The Council on Social Work Education selected School of Social Work student Tiffany J. Nhan for the fellowship, which supports students focused on reducing health disparities and improving mental health outcomes for underserved populations.
Three social work students named Western New York Prosperity Fellows
10/13/25
Social work students Vanity Jones, Aicha Niang and Ryan Tropf have been awarded the Western New York Prosperity Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Alford honored as an NASW Social Work Pioneer
10/8/25
The award, one of social work’s top honors, recognizes Dean Keith A. Alford’s pioneering contributions to children, families and the profession.

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