Latest School News

4/9/20 PhD Alum Whitney Mendel, Assistant Professor Mickey Sperlich and colleagues publish article, "The Doulas of the Priscilla Project: Understanding the Experience of Refugee Women Navigating the US Maternity-care System"
3/30/20 Assistant Professor Nadine (Shaanta) Murshid and colleague publish article, 'Techno-market fix?' Decoding wealth through mobile money in the global South"
3/23/20 PhD Student Temitope Oke and colleagues publish article, "A syndemic of psychosocial health problems is associated with increased HIV sexual risk among Nigerian gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM)"
3/17/20 UB grad programs again rank among the best
3/16/20 Professor Hilary Weaver publishes chapter, "We are beauty and we walk in it: Native American women in leadership roles"
3/9/20 Associate Professor Wooksoo Kim publishes article, "Healthy mahjong, little mahjong: social gambling among older Chinese immigrants in the U.S."
3/2/20 PhD Alum Nancy Kusmaul and Molly Wolf, Clinical Professor Susan Green, Research Professor Thomas Nochajski, and colleague publish article, "Client Experiences of Trauma-Informed Care in Social Service Agencies"
2/24/20 Assistant Professor Elizabeth Bowen and PhD Student Andrew Irish publish article "A policy mapping analysis of goals, target populations, and punitive notions in the U.S. congressional response to the opioid epidemic"
2/17/20 Assistant Professor Christopher St. Vil and colleagues publish article, "Interpersonal Gun Violence Research in the Social Work Literature"
2/12/20 Associate Professor Filomena Critelli and Asli Cennet Yalim publish article, "Improving access to domestic violence services for women of immigrant and refugee status: a trauma-informed perspective"
2/10/20 Professors Paul Stasiewicz and Clara Bradizza, Adjunct Instructor Braden Linn, and their colleagues publish article, "The Identification of Pretreatment Trajectories of Alcohol Use and Their Relationship to Treatment Outcome in Men and Women With Alcohol Use Disorder"
2/6/20 School of Social Work receives full reaccreditation
2/3/20 UB receives $800,000 NSF/Amazon grant to improve AI fairness in foster care
1/16/20 Give Kids A Smile Day set for February
12/12/19 UB social work researchers part of a team addressing gun violence in a special journal issue