Research Associate Professor Mary Beth Rauktis's brief "Pandemic’s impact on the youth in foster care and how schools are tackling their learning and emotional needs" was just released.

This is funded through the Momentum Funding grant that she received for a study of COVID-19 and education and foster parents/children in 2021. Read full report and one-page summary here.

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion James Huguley and PhD alumnus Eric Kyere have won the 2020 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work for their article "Exploring the process by which positive racial identity develops and influences academic performance in Black youth: Implications for social work." Read the article here.

Medical student Rebecca Georgiadis has been named a Roth Fellow in support of her medical student Scholarly project “COVID-19 Impacts on a Local Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Program for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)." Professor Danny Rosen is her mentor on the project and has been working with her for the past three years. Read more about the project.

MSW alumna Robyn Markowitz Lawler was just appointed for a one-year term to serve on the State College Community Oversight Board, which was created to increase transparency with the State College Police Department. Read more.

MSW alumnus and former adjunct Al Condeluci (pictured right) is part of the DooWop Doctors--two longtime friends who played in a band together in their youth and have reunited in retirement to raise funds for various nonprofits. Read more in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

MSW alumnus Donald G. Warhola (pictured left with Andy Warhol), Vice President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., reflects on his uncle Andy Warhol. Read more in the Pittsburgh Pot-Gazette.

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