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Jason D. Rivera

Jason D. Rivera was featured in the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology’s newsletter within their student spotlight section. He’s featured on page 4: https://www.aacsnet.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Winter2014SociologyAtWorkIssue2.pdf

Alyssa Yackle

Research Project Assistant, at WRI has accepted a Senior Research Coordinator Position at the Center for Health Behavior Research at UPenn. She is a graduate of the MPA program and was in the IPSD track; she has been with the Institute for two years and has been a key member of the Family Strengthening Initiative… continue reading

Rasheda Weaver’s Poster Presentation Sparks Interest of Diversity Works

Rasheda Weaver’s poster presentation at the National Society of Experiential Education’s 43rd Annual Conference sparked the interest of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York who featured her in the Fall issue of their magazine Diversity Works. The link to the feature can be found here: https://www.marist.edu/humanresources/diversityworks/fall2014/files/assets/basic-html/page17.html

Jason David Rivera and Ashley E. Nickels published in the journal Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy

“Jason David Rivera and Ashley E. Nickels, students in the public affairs doctoral program, recently published the article “Social Capital, Community Resilience, and Faith-Based Organizations in Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church,” in the journal Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy.  Read the full article at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rhc3.12050/full or download… continue reading

Rasheda Simpson-Weaver wins a “Commendation of Excellence” from the NSEE for her poster, “South Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel” presented at the 2014 NSEE conference in Baltimore

Congratulations to doctoral student Rasheda Simpson-Weaver in receiving a Letter of Commendation from the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE)  for her poster entitled, “South Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel” which she presented at the NSEE’s 2014 annual conference.