
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.