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Class of 2019 MSW students Mario Ismael Espinoza and Sahony Natasha Ramos were each awarded a $1,500 scholarship by the Latino Social Work Coalition (LSWC) in recognition of their prior service and continued commitment to working with the Latinx community upon completion of their graduate studies.

The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) has elected Dr. Neil B. Guterman, Dean and Paulette Goddard Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, as a Fellow of the Academy.

Clinical Assistant Professors Anne Dempsey and Nicholas Lanzieri were awarded a 2018 NYU Curricular Development Challenge Fund grant to pilot a new methodology for objectively evaluating and providing feedback on the skills of MSW students in NYU Silver’s foundational Practice and Field integrated curriculum.

Assistant Professor Ernest Gonzales has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research (LRP HDR) to support his ongoing research on factors and interventions to reduce health disparities among older adults.

Point Source Youth, a national organization dedicated to ending youth homelessness, and NYU Silver School of Social Work have announced the Third National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness, which will be held from June 17-19, 2019, at NYU Skirball Center in New York City.

NYU Silver PhD Candidate Liwei Zhang has been named a 2018 New Writers Fellow by the Family Process Institute, an independent, multidisciplinary, transnational organization dedicated to developing and exchanging new theory, research, applied practice, and policy related to families and other systems.

When Dr. Marya Gwadz joined the NYU Silver faculty as Associate Dean for Research and Professor in September 2018, she brought with her a $5.8 million National Institute of Drug Abuse-funded study using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework to optimize an intervention for vulnerable populations living with HIV.

NYU Silver marked the start of the 2018-19 academic year with a new program of activity to engage students in the “Grand Challenges for Social Work,” a nationwide initiative harnessing social work’s science and knowledge base to forge real progress on 12 of the country’s toughest social problems.

In the 2018-19 academic year, NYU Silver is piloting a new virtual reality simulation that immerses students in their field learning environment and prompts them to think critically about environmental context and the implications for clients.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor Kiara L. Moore a $192,000 Diversity Research Supplement to Professor Michelle R. Munson’s R34 study “Engaging Young Adults in Their Mental Health Care Through a Brief Empirically-Based Meta-Intervention.”