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An American Indian powwow, traditional cuisine, crafts, a film and presentations by Kerry Bird and Rebecca Tsosie are among the highlights of Washington University’s American Indian Awareness Week March 17-22.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is today and runs from 5-9 p.m. in Brown Hall.

SherradenThe social work professor who pioneered the idea of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) — matched savings accounts for low-income Americans — says that President Bush’s new individual savings proposals benefit the wealthy but leave behind the working poor. Michael W. Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, says that President Bush’s proposals to expand individual savings are wise, but fall far short of their potential. Sherraden offers suggestions for making investing opportunities available and profitable to all.

GWB inaugurates Alliance for Building Capacity

She will be installed as the inaugural Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work March 9 in Brown Hall Lounge.

James W. Ellis, the National Law Journal’s 2002 Lawyer of the Year, will deliver the keynote address during the School of Law’s fourth annual access to equal justice conference, titled “Mental Health and the Law,” March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Ellis, professor of law at the University of New […]

The founder of Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged and former HUD secretary will speak for the Assembly Series March 17.

Photo by Mary ButkusNancy Morrow-Howell was installed as the first Pumphrey professor of social work March 9.

Photo by Mary ButkusShanti K. Khinduka addresses attendees of a recent conference that brought deans from research-oriented schools of social work to GWB.

The award recognizes GWB’s outstanding contribution to international social work; it was presented Feb. 27 during CSWE’s Annual Planning Meeting.