Dean Gail Steketee is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Sally Bachman has been granted tenure. Professor Bachman received her MS in 1980 in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her PhD in 1994 in Social Welfare Policy with a concentration in Health Policy from the Heller School at […]
The School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) implementation grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA). The approximately $150,000 grant will fund development of a series of geriatric social work videos in collaboration with the New England Research Institutes. NIA SBIR programs support small businesses […]
Dr. Scott Miyake Geron, Associate Professor of Social Welfare Policy and Director of the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work, has been appointed to the Board of the Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA), an important health care organization in Massachusetts that provides services to the Medicare/Medicaid dually eligible population (mostly older adults and adults w/ disabilities). […]
Dean Gail Steketee has been appointed a member of the CSWE Commission on Professional Development, effective July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011. The objectives of the Commission are to recommend policies and establish priorities for professional development, to guide the work of its three councils (the Council on Conferences and Faculty Development, the Council […]