UW-Madison relies on 2,100 TAs who teach across a variety of disciplines on campus. In recognition, the Graduate School recently announced winners of awards for excellence in teaching, and new this year, instructional continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. PhD student Liz Premo received an award for excellence in instructional continuity. Below is the excerpt from …
What led you to become a social worker? Stereotypically, I wanted to “help people” and didn’t really know what that could look like. I attended UW (I’m a Madison Alum) and frankly couldn’t take one more animal behavior psych class (my major at the time). I wound up crying in the academic advisor’s office. She …
Preparing to write a story about school alumnae Dr. Carol Hand, an enrolled member of the Sokaogon Ojibwe Community, who I have been fortunate to have known from her time at the School of Social Work, it quickly became apparent that the best way to introduce her story is to use her own words. Following …
What class(s) do you currently teach at UW Madison? I currently teach SW 742: Assessing and Treating Children and Adolescents. This is my final semester with the Eau Claire site Part-Time MSW Program. What inspired you to become a social worker? I’ve always been drawn to the ways the “human condition” or elements essential to …
PhD student Kiley McLean was recently accepted into the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Leadership Academy. As one of 24 participants throughout the country, Kiley will engage in a year-long program intended to enhance the skills of current and emerging leaders in the disability academic network to build coalitions to improve systems of …
The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded a Pipeline Grant to Assistant Professor Alejandra Ros Pilarz and Laura Cuesta, Rutgers University–New Brunswick for their work, “Child Support Regularity and Custodial Mothers’ Employment and Economic Well-Being.” The pipeline grants go to emerging …
Measuring stress hormones in hair, says study first author Luke Muentner, a PhD candidate in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, “moves us beyond outwardly observable and parent-reported metrics for understanding how potentially traumatic experiences of witnessing a parent’s arrest ‘get under the skin’ of young children with incarcerated parents.”
Year in the program: I am in my 3rd year in the PTP Focus area: Aging & Health Future job interest: Ideally, to work as a patient advocate in a hospital or long-term care facility. I have also considered working in community health, in programs administered by an agency such as the ADRC. Why …
Documented cases of anti-Asian racism, bigotry, xenophobia, and violence have been on a steady incline since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The horrific murders of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta this week highlight and underscore our long overdue need to address, acknowledge, and fight anti-Asian racism in our country. Stop AAPI …
Congratulations to Jennifer Parker, MSSW ’86, a private practice practitioner in Madison, WI, on her new book, Coercive Relationships: Find the Answers You Seek. In addition to Jennifer’s decades long therapy experience, she has offered workshops, developed curriculum, provided expert testimony and has a blog devoted to issues surrounding interpersonal violence (IRP). Commenting on her …