Global excellence

Edward F. Lawlor, Ph.D. (left), dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, and Michael W. Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, admire a globe presented to Sherraden by the staff of the Center for Social Development (CSD) on Oct. 15. Ten years ago, Sherraden the center’s director — founded the CSD in part to expand his research, which is dedicated to creating a more universal asset-building policy for the United States. The 10th anniversary of the CSD — which features a globe as its symbol — was marked with a week-long series of events from Oct. 11-15. Sherraden and his staff grew the CSD into a leading academic center of theory and research on asset-building, civic service, productive aging, and other areas of social and economic development.