Dr. Susan Mason, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has updated her successful and influential book Diagnosis Schizophrenia, (Columbia University Press). The new volume offers invaluable information about schizophrenia and the people who have first-hand experiences with this powerful disorder. 35 young and recently diagnosed patients speak about what it is like to be [...]

Dr. Joan Beder, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has guest-edited a special issue of Social Work in Health Care, (50:1, 1–3) titled “Preface to Special Issue: Social Work With the Military: Current Practice Challenges and Approaches to Care”. Major advances in protective armor and advances in military medicine have resulted in unprecedented numbers [...]

Dr. Frederick J. Streets, the Carl and Dorothy Bennet Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, was presented the Rev. John LaFarge, S.J. Award by the Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx, Ph.D., president of Fairfield University, during their annual Convocation observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 20, 2011. Professor [...]

Dr. Richard Caputo, director of the doctoral program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has published a new book titled U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present, (Springer, 1st Edition, 2011). The book examines the evolution of major federal cash assistance programs to low-income families, from the advent of the Reagan [...]

Daniel Laufer, associate professor of marketing at Sy Syms School of Business, has been published in The Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, the first international, multi-volume encyclopedia of marketing. His article, “Marketing Warfare Strategies”, refers to competitor-centered strategies borrowed from the field of military science and applied in a marketing context. According to Rindfleisch, advocates [...]

Steven McCadney, a PhD candidate in social welfare at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, will deliver a speech at the 3rd Annual World Vaccine Congress (WCV-2011), which will be held in Beijing, China, March 23-25. The conference’s theme is “The Future of Global Vaccines,” and McCadney’s discourse will focus on “Hope for an AIDS [...]

Catherine Pearlman, adjunct professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been featured on a CNN ongoing series called “Stop Bullying, Speak Up”. A practicing social worker and doctoral candidate at Wurzweiler, Pearlman is also founder of The Family Coach, a business that specializes in helping families resolve everyday problems. Citing a University of [...]

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future, will be a presenter at the Orthodox Union’s One-Day Conference on Jewish Life on Sunday, January 16, 2011, in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. He will be discussing how the Orthodox community can play [...]

Drs. Jeffrey H. Weisburg, Alyssa G. Schuck, Harvey Babich and Harriet L. Zuckerbraun, at Stern College for Women’s department of biology, have jointly published an abstract titled “Pomegranate Extract, a Prooxidant with Antiproliferative and Proapoptotic Activities Preferentially Towards Carcinoma Cells” in the journal Anticancer Agents In Medicinal Chemistry (Dec. 24, 2010). The team was aided [...]

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has had an article accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Physical Review E. The article, titled “Topological phonon modes in filamentary structures,” was completed by undergraduate students Nina Berg, Kira Joel and Miriam Koolyk in the research session of Summer of [...]