Global excellence
Photo by Kevin LowderDean Edward Lawlor and Michael Sherraden admire a globe presented to Sherraden by the staff of the Center for Social Development.
Center for Social Development celebrates 10 years
A weeklong series of events starting Oct. 11 honors the center in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Gordon professor
Photo by Kevin LowderSocial work Dean Edward F. Lawlor talks with Edward S. Macias at Lawlor’s installation as the William E. Gordon Professor.
“Crossing Network Lines” conference
The Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host “Crossing Network Lines: Facilitating Partnerships and Building Coalitions Across Aging and Disability Service Networks to Improve Service Delivery,” a scientific meeting of national and local scholars, practice professionals, public officials and policy makers Oct. 7 at the Chase […]
GWB’s Lawlor named to Gordon professorship
He’s “a distinguished academic leader and contributor to the advance of social work education and scholarship,” Chancellor Wrighton says.
High rates of food insecurity, food stamp use show Americans’ economic vulnerability, says social welfare expert
Many Americans are faced with the fear of going hungry.Most Americans don’t think they’ll ever be faced with the question of how they will get their next meal, but a recent study co-authored by a social welfare expert at Washington University in St. Louis shows that at least 42 percent of the U.S. population will deal with food insecurity during their lifetime. “Food insecurity goes beyond the fear of going hungry,” explains Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the university’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work. “Food insecurity means that people are unable to provide themselves and their families nutritionally adequate food on a regular basis.
‘Work, Families and Public Policy’ series starts Sept. 20
The seminars comprise one-hour presentations on the research interests of faculty from local and national universities.
James Herbert Williams named special assistant to chancellor
In a new position, Williams — also the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity — will focus on urban and community initiatives.
Rankings of WUSTL by News Media
A page entitled, “Rankings of WUSTL by News Media.”
Eliminating American poverty tied to homeland security, says poverty expert
Although the focus of homeland security has been on reducing the threat of terrorism, the growing threat of poverty is rapidly undermining the nation’s economic vitality and has fueled rising disillusionment, says one of the nation’s leading scholars of poverty issues. “We need to wake up in America and realize that our homeland security is tied as much if not more to the fact that huge numbers of Americans are being left behind economically, and that as a result, the American Dream is quickly turning into an American nightmare,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St. Louis.
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