CSW General

The Social Work Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Awards (SWURCAA), an initiative created by Dean Nick Mazza and developed with Pam Graham (Director of BSW Program) and the FSU Office of Undergraduate Research has provided four undergraduate social work students with the opportunity to work directly with faculty members on some of their current research projects and have been awarded a $1,000 stipend for their efforts during the spring semester.  These competitive awards (based on rigorous criteria) afford selected BSW students the opportunity to experience the discipline

Dr. Tomi Gomory and his co-authors Stuart Kirk and David Cohen published their book Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs in April 2013 (published by Transaction Publishers).  The book has added its voice to a number of critics surrounding the Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM) and has received quite a bit of attention, appearing in USA Today on May 13, 2013 (Section 4D).  Dr.

Two faculty members of the Florida State University College of Social Work — Claire Calohan and Pam Graham — have been named Social Work Educator of the Year by their respective units of the National Association of Social Workers, Florida Chapter.

Calohan, a research associate at Florida State’s Panama City Campus, received the distinction from the Emerald Coast Unit.

A new toolkit developed by Florida State University researchers to prevent domestic violence involving law enforcement officers is now available to all criminal justice agencies in the Southeast in the first phase of a plan to make the toolkit available to agencies across the nation.

The Florida State University (FSU) College of Social Work (CSW) collaborated with FSU’s Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (CARE), the FSU Art Education Department, the FSU Athletics Department, and the 

Doctoral candidate Jane McPherson’s research examines the area where social work and human rights intersect. Upon entering the doctoral program at the FSU College of Social Work, she was awarded FSU’s Presidential Scholarship, providing her four years of support from the University.  In 2013, the Graduate School honored her with the Graduate Research & Creativity Award and the Graduate Leadership Award.

Dr. Karen Randolph, and coauthor Dr. Laura Myers’s book Basic Statistics in Multivariate Analysis was recently published by Oxford University Press.  The book introduces readers to three multivariate analytical methods (i.e., linear regression, analysis of variance and covariance, and path analysis) with a focus on the basic statistics that support these methods.

We are most fortunate to have two new assistant professors joining us this fall!

Lisa Schelbe, MSW, Ph.D. joins the College of Social Work faculty as an Assistant Professor, having most recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Schelbe earned her MSW at Washington University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Lisa brings a wealth of experience relating to domestic violence and child welfare (particularly youth aging out of the child welfare system).

Faculty member Janet Berry retired at the end of this summer to begin a new chapter in her life.  On top of being an alumna of the FSU College of Social Work, Janet has been a long-time faculty member at the College, taking on various roles and responsibilities.  Included among these roles were the development of the online MSW degree program and the online Leadership in Executive and Administrative Development (LEAD) Certificate Program as well as coordinating and designing the Capstone Assignment for Field Seminars.

Over the summer a permanent legacy to honor Dr. Wendy P. Crook (pictured right) and her family was established in the form of the endowed Violet Crook Graduate Scholarship. In November 2006, Dr. Crook pledged a donation to begin the scholarship. Tragically, Dr. Crook passed away in October 2007 at age 55 from cancer before the scholarship could be endowed.