During an online ceremony last week, Assistant Professor Lara Gerassi was recognized with the Influential Scholar Award at the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference. The conference convenes “researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development.” The conference is associated …
Investigator and Associate Professor Lauren Bishop and colleagues to begin new Autism Center of Excellence Network project and critical new research focused on aging for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
In her 17th year as the owner/artisan of Earth Art Studio, a craft boutique in Door County, Wisconsin, Pam Banker reflected on how her journey evolved following her social work education and practice experience. After graduating with her MSSW degree, Pam opened a career counseling and psychotherapy practice in Madison. There she focused on, “helping …
Approximately sixty-five percent of individuals released from incarceration in the United States confront challenges of substance use disorders (SUDs) and the risk of drug overdose is much higher for formerly incarcerated individuals than the general population. To examine the factors contributing to changes in substance use and treatment among this population, Assistant Professor Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo …
Alan Goldberg, MSSW ’77 and Kay Udey, BSW 77, MSSW ‘82 Alan and Kay were in the same field unit in the mid 1970’s. They were focusing on aging and have found memories of their field work faculty member, Merle Schwei. Kay quipped that though it was a small group, Alan didn’t seem to notice …
Lisa Imhoff, MSW ’05, was named one of Wisconsin’s Most Influential Asian American Leaders by Madison 365. Lisa is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Pharmacy. She is also a licensed therapist and social worker providing services through Evolve Wellness and Consulting. Prior to joining the School …
Assistant Professor Lara Gerassi was appointed to the executive board of the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars (GAHTS), an international organization focused on responding to human trafficking through research-based approaches to informing policy, advocacy, and activism. “I am committed to fostering research opportunities in the pursuit of social justice for human trafficking survivors (and those …
“Since I was young, I can remember always loving horses,” explains Laura Mengars, MSW ’13. A psychotherapist, this year Laura has taken that passion to found “Healing in Rhythm,” an equine-assisted therapy practice specializing in trauma, substance abuse, and other mental health challenges. While many people are familiar with using dogs as service and therapy …
Congratulations to Peter Doksus, database programmer, on winning an IT Transformational Achievement Award, presented as part of the IT Professionals Conference at UW–Madison last week. Peter is a Software Engineer/Developer with 15+ years of web application development and system design in HIPAA and FERPA compliant environments and he makes many of the systems used at …
Assistant Professor Lara Gerassi has been selected as a scholar with the UW–Madison Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Program, an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to connect junior faculty or “BIRCWH Scholars” to senior faculty with similar interests in women’s health and/or advancing sex and gender differences in health. …