Appointment |
Paula
Allen-Meares,
dean and the Norma Radin
Collegiate Professor
of
Social Work, and professor
of education, has been
named to a panel the
New
York Academy of Medicine
is convening to study
how to move health professions
toward more effectively
meeting the evolving
health
care needs of the American
peopleparticularly
the needs of an aging
population
increasingly facing
chronic
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Awards |
Steven
Driscoll Hixson,
senior graphic designer at
the Museum of Art, received
a first-place award within
the American Association of
Museums Publication Design
Competition for the exhibition
booklet "Masterworks
of African Art: The Congo Basin." Hixson
also received one of 10 national
design excellence awards from
Finch
Paper for the same publication. |
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Linda
Chatters,
associate professor of social
work and public health, and
faculty associate with the
Program for Research on Black
Americans at the Institute
for Social Research and the
Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies, has been
selected a fellow of the
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Section of the Gerontological
Society of America (GSA).
Fellowship status is recognition
by peers in GSA for outstanding
contributions to the field
of gerontology and represents
the highest class of membership.
Chatters will be inducted
at the GSA's 57th annual
scientific meetings Nov.
19-23 in Washington, D.C. |
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The
Center for Child Welfare Policy
of the North American Resource
Center for Child Welfare has
named Matthew
Howard,
professor of social work and
psychiatry, winner of a 2004
Pro Humanitate Literary Award.
The center awarded a Herbert
S. Raskin Child Welfare Article
Award to Howard and his co-authors
for "Teaching
Evidence-Based Practice: Toward
a New Paradigm for Social Work
Education." The
award will be presented at
the Children's Research Center's
Structured Decision Making
Conference Oct. 14. in Long
Beach, Calif.
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