Alumna Amy B. Mansue, president of the Southern Region of RWJBarnabas Health, has been named chair of the Board of the New Jersey Hospital Association, the state’s oldest and largest hospital and healthcare advocacy organization. She received the appointment in January 2018. “I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to improve wellness for both…
Dr. Matthew J. Cuellar, assistant professor of social work at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative to conduct research on effective school safety systems. The initiative was created in a response to disturbing, high-profile incidents of…
Patricia Swift Blalock, who integrated Selma’s public library in the 1960s, was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Social Work Hall of Fame Sept. 22. Blalock, along with four others in the 2017 class, were honored during a ceremony at the NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa. Blalock’s social work and advocacy career began as an assistant…
Alumna’s cultural enrichment program helps American and international students understand each other’s cultures. Growing up in Hebei, China, Fan Yang (’13 MSW), was surrounded by family, had no trouble making friends and embraced her Chinese heritage. “I spent the first 18 years of my life there,” she said. As an international student at The University…
