The dreams of three mothers live on through USF student research scholarship | |
Three CBCS emeritus professors are honoring their mothers by providing students a gift that was unavailable to most women of their mothers’ generation – the gift of education. Catherine Batsche, PhD, Mary Armstrong, PhD, and Roger Boothroyd, PhD are carrying on their mothers’ legacies through The Moms Project, a mentoring and scholarship program for undergraduate students who conduct research in areas that their mothers were passionate about: substance use disorders, nutrition, and positive aging.
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Aging studies associate professor speaks on GSA panel | |
Debra Dobbs, PhD, FGSA, an associate professor in the School of Aging Studies, participated in a panel for the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) titled "Developments in Advance Care Planning in the Context of COVID-19." Stemming from an interdisciplinary presentation about advance care planning in the context of COVID-19, this second panel explores how diverse insights into advance care planning are shifting in a post-pandemic world.
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CBCS food drive surpasses goal, collecting over 1700 items
The Battle of CBCS Food Drive held in April in conjunction with USF Week and Student Employee Appreciation Week surpassed its goal of 1,500 items for the food pantry – collecting over 1,700 non-perishable food items from all departments and schools in the college. The Department of Child and Family Studies collected the most items (over 600 items), earning a pups and sweets party. Lisa Landis, MA and Wendy Stoneman-Shelby, MA delivered the items to the Feed-A-Bull Food Pantry on the Tampa campus.
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New Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace Course opens for registration
The Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace course being developed by CBCS in conjunction with The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay will teach participants about the prevalence rates and symptoms of the most common mental and behavioral disorders, what to look for in employee behaviors that may suggest an impairment, how to approach the employee, and what resources you should consider to help your employees as well as attract and retain top talent.
Launching in June, the seven-session course is being offered fully online for free, but a digital badge and certification is available for $179. Learn more and register at usf.edu/MHWW.
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MHLP assistant professor offers strategies to promote inclusive excellence
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy (MHLP) Assistant Professor and Director of the Stigma Action Research Lab Kristin Kosyluk, PhD joined university leaders in the Special Enlightenment Series conversation titled, “You Belong Here: Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Higher Education.” The group discussed creating a sense of belonging and student success and offered strategies to attendees on promoting inclusive excellence. Speakers included Kyonna Henry, director of the Office of Student Life and Engagement, and Deborah McCarthy, director of Student Accessibility Services. Read more.
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CSD associate professor returns to alma mater to discuss stuttering as neurodivergence debate
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Associate Professor Nathan Maxfield, PhD, CCC-SLP gave an invited presentation titled "Stuttering as Neurodivergence?" at the City University of New York Graduate Center PhD Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences 2023 Alumni Event. His talk addressed the current debate about whether the verbal condition of stuttering should be approached using a medical model of disability, which aims to normalize people who stutter, using the neurodiversity model of disability, which aims to help people who stutter adapt while creating a social environment in which it is easier to stutter, or some combination of these two models. Read more.
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CBCS researchers attend human trafficking roundtable in Polk County
Criminology Professor Joan Reid, PhD, LCSW, who also serves as the director of the Trafficking in Persons - Risk to Resilience Lab, and BRIGHT (Bridging Resources and Information Gaps in Human Trafficking) Network Project Manager Kailey Pate Carter, MA attended Congressman C. Scott Franklin‘s roundtable discussion on human trafficking. More than 50 state leaders, including elected officials, law enforcement officers, researchers, social workers, and community representatives, attended the event. Participants discussed human trafficking, available resources, and the legislative outlook. Read more from LkldNow.
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Criminology doctoral student named 2023 ASC Ruth Peterson Fellow
Vanessa Centelles, MA, a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, was selected as a 2023 American Society of Criminology (ASC) Ruth Peterson Fellow. The Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity Award encourages students of color, especially those from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the field, to earn their degrees and enter the field of criminology and criminal justice. The money from the fellowship will help defray the costs of data collection for her dissertation on gender-based victimization of Hispanic/Latina women.
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Criminology assistant professor discusses cybercrime on two podcasts
C. Jordan Howell, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, shared his expertise on two different podcasts: The Criminology Academy and Cybercrimeology. In the episode for The Criminology Academy podcast, Howell covered many topics, including cybercrime/cybersecurity, ransomware darknet markets, and the illicit supply chain. In the episode for Cybercrimeology, Howell discusses darknet stolen data marketplaces, innovative techniques for gathering data, and researching criminal behavior online.
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CBCS student employees recognized for outstanding performance
The CBCS Student Employee Appreciation Week Planning Committee has selected the recipients of the 2023 Student Employees of the Year Award: Genaro Lopez and Arturo Garcia, MA, BCBA. The two were nominated for their reliability, quality of work, initiative, and professionalism, among other unique characteristics. Lopez is a Federal Work Study student in Student Services, and Garcia is a graduate assistant in the Applied Behavior Analysis program in the Department of Child and Family Studies.
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Social work PhD candidate discusses OA on radio show
Stephanie Rosado, MSW, CWHC, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, was on air with the Haitian American Nursing Association (HANA) of Hudson Valley, New York to discuss Osteoarthritis (OA). The HANA Health & Wellness radio show aims to increase the health literacy of their audience by hosting a variety of health and allied health professionals to discuss important topics relevant to the community.
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Aging studies student awarded Graduate Assistantship in End-of-Life or Palliative Care
Jessica Yauk, MGS, a doctoral candidate in the School of Aging Studies, was selected for the 2023-2024 Graduate Assistantship in End-of-Life or Palliative Care. This assistantship provides funding for a 9-month period to allow graduate students to pursue their own research projects related to end-of-life or palliative care and work with community providers. Yauk received $20,000 to research Black caregivers in the community to understand their perceptions of care recipients' end-of-life wishes.
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Call for applications: CBCS DMAC director
The CBCS Research Council is soliciting applications for a director who will shape the development of the CBCS Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) with an appointment in the Dean’s Office. The CBCS DMAC is a centralized, shared resources hub that provides access to expertise and services relating to research requiring data management and monitoring, and statistical analysis. Learn more about the position here.
Faculty members who are interested in the position should apply by Monday, May 22nd, sending the application and supporting documents to CBCSResearchCouncil@usf.edu.
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3 retired University of South Florida professors honor their mothers through scholarship programs
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"'One of the things we wanted to do was to encourage undergraduate students to take an interest in mental health and substance abuse research, so the incentive that we had was to be able to give them money to support the research,' said Mary Armstrong."
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Jaynes. C.M., Santos, M.R., Kortright, K., Devlin, D.N. (2023). Age-Graded Heterogenity in the Relationship Between Hours of Work and Crime. Criminal Justice & Behavior. doi:10.1177/00938548231170852
Littlewood, K., Cooper, L., Rosenthal, M., Averett, P., Pylant, J., Bennett, R., & Spadola, C. E. (2023). Supporting the lived experience through the implementation of peer-to-peer kinship navigation services. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. doi:10.1080/10911359.2023.2187914
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Mroz, E. L., Monin, J. K., Gaugler, J. E., Matta-Singh, T. D., & Fried, T. R. (2023). Rewriting the story of mid and late-life family caregiving: Applying a narrative identify framework. The Gerontologist. doi:10.1093/geront/gnad040
Spadola, C. E., Groton, D. B., Giorgio Cosenzo, L., Fantus, S., Hilditch, C. J., Burke, S. L., Littlewood, K., Bertisch, S. M., & Zhou, E. S. (2023). Sleep and sleep knowledge among social work students: Implications for mental health and self-care education. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. doi:10.1080/10911359.2023.2204125
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Jerome Galea, PhD, MSW, RCSWI, LCSW (SOK)
Understanding and addressing geographic barriers to accessing TB services in a high burden urban setting
Sponsor: Boston University
2/1/2023-1/31/2028
Award Amount: $603,361
Tuberculosis (TB) is curable but remains one of the top 10 causes of death globally. Around 30% of people with TB are not diagnosed, and among those who start treatment, around 15% do not achieve a successful outcome. Undiagnosed and untreated TB drive continued transmission, morbidity, and mortality. TB elimination requires an improved understanding of how to reduce barriers to diagnosis and treatment. Our long-term goal is to design and implement interventions to improve TB diagnosis and treatment outcomes. In this project, we will collaborate with colleagues in Lima, Peru to: 1. Develop a community-level risk score that predicts incomplete TB treatment; 2. Develop a community-level risk score that predicts high average diagnostic delay; 3. Understand how geographic accessibility contributes to diagnostic delay at the individual level; and 4. Identify treatment support interventions for addressing geographic and other access barriers that are optimal for different types of patients.
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Upcoming Events & Deadlines | |
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Virtual 2023 Summer Institute: Strategies to Support School-Aged Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
June 2, 9, & 30 | 9 a.m. - noon
The first presentation will provide an overview of trauma-informed care in educational settings. The second presentation will introduce a systems of care approach to promote family-school collaboration in the problem-solving process when addressing mental health concerns of students.
The third presentation will provide an overview of assistive technology (AT) and introduce multiple levels of AT and instructional technologies that can be incorporated into lives of children with disabilities to enhance their learning and promote success in schools.
To RSVP, email Tracy-Ann Gilbert-Smith at tgsmith@usf.edu or complete this RSVP form.
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