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The Brown School’s Vanessa Fabbre and Cal Halvorsen have been named 2025 Gerontological Society of America Fellows, while Nancy Morrow-Howell received the Barbara J. Berkman Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research, Practice or Policy in Aging and Health Care.

Mitra Naseh, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been selected as one of four scholars nationwide for the 2025-2026 Visiting Poverty Scholars Program, administered by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Two Brown School faculty members have been awarded a combined $1.4 million in grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support research focused on improving economic mobility and reducing wealth disparities. 

Jeremy Goldbach, a nationally recognized scholar on LGBTQ+ mental health and the inaugural Masters & Johnson Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health and Education at the Brown School, died Saturday, June 7, 2025, of cancer. He was 42.

Kim Thuy Seelinger, a research associate professor at the Brown School and visiting professor at the School of Law, will give a keynote address at the international conference “Justice Denied: Fighting Widespread Impunity for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” June 2 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University, recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement while promoting diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. WashU recently inducted five doctoral candidates and five postdoctoral fellows.

Cal Halvorsen, an associate professor at the Brown School, served as adviser on a CoGenerate survey on faith communities and engagement.

Private equity ownership of psychiatric hospitals in the United States is associated with lower staffing levels, but also higher performance on certain quality measures, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Brown School marked its 100th anniversary with a special celebration during the annual Brown School Awards of Distinction and Centennial Gala, held April 24. The event honored seven individuals for their contributions to social work, public health and social policy.

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