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PhD students Yeqing Yuan and Laura Curran have been awarded National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded pre-doctoral fellowships at the Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research program.

Avery Levine, a Class of 2019 MSW graduate and MSW Fellow in our Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PELC), was awarded the Association of Oncology Social Work’s (AOSW) 2019 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Scholarship.

Researchers found that bureaucratic barriers rather than personal intransigence lead many street homeless people to refuse outreach workers’ offers of shelter.

Third-year PhD student Rachel Ludeke has been awarded scholarships to attend three nationally competitive training programs during summer 2019.

Four NYU Silver faculty have received competitive grants from NYU’s University Research Challenge Fund.

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.”