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Through facilitated conversations Dr. Duffy conducted with 9/11 survivors, students gained a deeper understanding of trauma and key relational skills needed in trauma practice.

NYU Silver Class of 2020 MSW students Moorea Colby, Sally Martir, and ViniNatalie Zaninovic conducted stipend-supported, mentored, substance use research projects this past summer through the Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET) program

The Board of Directors for the International Journal of Social Welfare appointed NYU Silver Professor Wen-Jui Han as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

NYU Silver School of Social Work welcomed five new faculty members and postdoctoral fellows at the start of the 2019-20 academic year.

Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant to implement a community-wide, evidence-based alcohol and opioid prevention program in theSouth Bronx.

On August 14, 2019, Assistant Professor Ernest Gonzales presented testimony to a committee appointed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education to develop a behavioral and social sciences research agenda for the next decade on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias (ADRD).

Professor and Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health Director Vincent Guilamo-Ramos has been appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to an ad hoc Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States.

Associate Professor Darcey Merritt has been awarded a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant for a study that aims to redefine the way we think of child neglect based on mothers’ perspectives on their behavioral choices.

This weekend's mass shootings in Texas and Ohio make especially clear that the toxic combination of hateful rhetoric and easily available weapons present a national crisis.

In an editorial published today in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Pediatrics, NYU Silver Professor and Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) Director Vincent Guilamo-Ramos presents strategies for developing "effective, efficient, and scalable" parent-based interventions to improve adolescent and young adult (AYA) sexual and reproductive health (SRH).