MSW Student Awards

• NASW Region H 2010 Social Work Students if the Year: Mike Hannant (1st year MSW) and Liz Morazzo (2nd year MSW)
• James and Judy Bergman Mental Health Fellowship: Julian Hernandez & Ahmanise Sanati
• Marjorie Hays Fertig and Ralph D. Fertig Fellowship in Social Justice: Stephani Van
• David Bohnett Fellowship: Cathy Dang
  

Doctoral Student Awards

• NASW Region H 2010 Social Work Doctoral Student of the Year: Cindy Sangalang
  

• Graduate Research Mentorship: Susan Snyder
  
  Susan Snyder is a 4th year doctoral student who received the Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship to work Professor Todd Franke on a study of juvenile delinquient behaviors. Susan's study uses two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to test collective efficacy theory. Collective efficacy is a prevalent theory of delinquency proposed by Sampson and colleagues, which suggets that communities can activate social ties to set norms and deter unwanted behavior. The study asks if collective efficacy moderates the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and delinquency.
  
  

• Dissertation Year Fellowship: Yunkyung Jung,  Amanda Sheely, & Dustianne North

Yunkyung Jung's  research interests focus on empirical investigation of productive aging, which is a recent gerontological perspective emphasizing the productive contribution of the elderly population to society. Productive activities refer to the activities that produce social valued goods and services performed by the elderly and such activities often include paid work, volunteering, and caregiving. In her dissertation, she proposed pathway models that link engagement in productive activities and physical and psychological well-being of older adults focusing on the roles of gender and socioeconomic status. She is especially interested in examining whether the influences of the productive activities and well-being are conditioned by gender and socioeconomic status.

Amanda Sheely, MSW, MPH, has been awarded UCLA Graduate Division's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Amanda's dissertation investigates the ways that California counties tailor welfare provision to the unique political and economic environments of their counties. She is specifically interested in whether counties have used the new discretion granted to them after the passage of welfare reform to tailor welfare services to meet local needs. Or, if counties are acting to control caseloads even in during economic downturns.

• Eugene V.  Cota-Robles Award : Nancy Jo Williams