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No student should experience racism or otherwise be made to feel unwelcome here at NYU Silver.

Class of 2019 MSW students Olivia Byrd and Carly Johnson have been awarded Master's fellowships from the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Minority Fellowship Program.

I² Housing, an intergenerational interdependence initiative developed by a team from NYU Silver School of Social Work and the nonprofit Generations United, is one of 8 finalists chosen from among 97 submissions representing 59 universities in 24 countries for the Stanford Center on Longevity’s 2018-2019 Longevity Design Challenge.

Clinical Associate Professor Virge Luce has been selected to receive the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network’s (SWHPN) 2019 Award of Excellence in Professional Education at the organization’s annual conference from March 17-19 in Orlando, FL.

NYU Silver School of Social Work Associate Professor Darcey Merritt, whose research focuses on families involved with the public child welfare system, was invited by UNICEF’s China Office to present a keynote at the International Conference on Social Work for Children: Practice in China and Global Experience in Beijing.

As the battle over the President's proposed border wall raged in Washington, eight NYU Silver MSW students took an intensive, January-term course in Puebla, Mexico on Migration and The Trump Wall: Health and Social Welfare Issues of Latino Migrants.

From January 9th-14th, Professor Deborah K. Padgett will teach an intensive course on Anthropological Perspectives in Global Health at The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) in Chennai, India.

NYU Silver Associate Professor Darcey Merritt has been elected to the 16-member Board of Directors of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) as a Member-at-Large. Her three-year term begins on February 1, 2019.

NYU Silver PhD Candidate Ai Bo has been selected as the recipient of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education’s (GADE) 2019 Student Research Award.

Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs Michelle R. Munson co-edited a special section in the December 2018 issue of the American Psychological Association’s Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.