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Jenna Abrams, MSW '20, admits she was disappointed last August when she learned she would be working with older adults in her first-year field placement, which the School assigns to provide new students a foundation of social work practice skills within a generalist perspective.

At the annual Adaptive Leadership Fellowship Colloquium on April 30, 2019, the 14 MSW students in the fellowship’s fourth cohort shared their own reflections on the framework and its relevance to social work.

The 2018-19 academic year has been particularly fruitful for NYU Silver’s Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, with nine fellows, mentors, and faculty receiving significant honors, and three collaborating to edit a seminal textbook on palliative care social work, which was published in winter 2019.

The Silver School of Social Work’s inaugural #NYUSilverUp4TheChallenge Student Competition, inspired by the Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative, came to a successful conclusion at the competition finals in early April.

Dr. Xupeng Mao, a 2018 graduate of NYU Silver’s PhD Program who is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at East China University of Science and Technology, has been awarded Honorable Mention in NYU’s University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards. Dr. Mao was recognized in the category of Allied Health & Social Services for her dissertation, “The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults in China.”

On April 23, 2019, NYU Silver, NYU College of Global Public Health, Brennan Center for Justice, and Public Square Media will host a film screening of After Rikers: Justice by Design followed by a panel discussion moderated by Clinical Assistant Professor Kirk A. James.

NYU Silver Professors James Jaccard, Jerome C. Wakefield, and Deborah K. Padgett ranked in top 100 contemporary social work faculty for their scholarly influence in an analysis recently published in the Journal of Social Service Research.

NYU Silver PhD Candidate Liwei Zhang has received the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Student and Early Career Council Poster Award for the paper entitled “Multidimensional Poverty and Children’s Socioemotional Trajectories.”

NYU Silver third-year PhD student Laura Esquivel has been selected as a 2019 Science Alliance Leadership Training (SALT) Program Fellow by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS).

The collaboration NYU Silver’s Office of Field Learning and Community Partnerships has with Tech Kids Unlimited, a not-for-profit technology-based educational organization for young people ages 7 to 21 with special needs, is an exceptional example of its commitment to both providing rich, well-supervised experiential training to our students and helping social service and health agencies, schools, and other organizations provide optimal services to vulnerable populations.