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Wu recognized for excellence in analytics and data science education

Jingwei Wu, associate professor and primary research faculty of the Biostatistics Core in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, has been named the 2023 recipient of the SAS Institute’s Emerging Educator Award. The award recognizes educators who have shown exemplary progress in advancing analytics education and preparing students for careers in analytics and data science for five or fewer years. Wu says that he originally had no intention of becoming an educator. After graduating from The Beijing University of Technology with his BS in computational and applied mat...

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Padilla awarded for research examining sexual assault against Deaf individuals in the Philippines

For recent College of Public Health graduate Samantha Padilla, CPH '23, what began as her curiosity about American Sign Language (ASL) led to an award-winning research paper about a troubling issue affecting the Deaf community. Padilla’s paper, “Creating Positive Change for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals in the Philippines,” focuses on the prevalence of sexual assault perpetrated on Deaf people in the Philippines. The paper won Temple’s Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in General Education. It was written as part of an assignment—to create a Wikipedi...

Pfeiffer, Wilbanks named to 2023 Gallery of Success

The Temple University Gallery of Success, which honors esteemed alumni, has named College of Public Health and School of Social Work graduates Alyse D. Wilbanks and Beth A. Pfeiffer to its 2023 list of honorees. Now in its 25th year, the Gallery of Success celebrates outstanding professional achievement by graduates of Temple’s 17 schools and colleges. Alyse D. Wilbanks, who earned her BSW from the School of Social Work in 2008, is a child advocate at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, which represents dependent youth in Philadelphia Family Court. Wilbanks had begun...

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Five CPH students earn prestigious Diamond Award

Five College of Public Health undergraduate students have been named recipients of the university’s 2023 Diamond Award. The Diamond Award is the highest recognition by Student Affairs given to a Temple University undergraduate student, based on a holistic evaluation of their accomplishments. The award is “reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership, academic achievement, service to the University, and impact on a community (local, regional, or global). Through their leadership, it is clear that they are set apart from others as especially deserving of this u...

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College of Public Health jumps to No. 36 in US News rankings

Temple University’s College of Public Health has jumped to No. 36 among the nation’s schools and programs of public health in the 2023–24 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools. Two hundred and forty-eight public health institutions were included in this nationwide ranking. “This ranking is a testament to our incredible faculty and the amazing work of our alumni, who are the foundation of our reputation,” says Interim Dean Jennifer Ibrahim. “We are committed to providing access to high-quality education, and it is wonderful for those e...

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Ferretti named recipient of Faculty Senate Service Award

Lisa Ferretti, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has been named a recipient of Temple University’s Faculty Senate Service Award. In her time at Temple, Ferretti has engaged in meritorious service to the School of Social Work, the College of Public Health, the university, and the community. She has served on committees including the Faculty, Staff and Student Recognition & Management Committee, Student Awards Committee, Student Scholarships Committee, Faculty Research and Study Leave Committee, and the SSW PIRC Search Committee, among others. Ferretti joi...

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Bass receives outstanding faculty service award

Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, has been named a recipient of Temple University's Faculty Senate Outstanding Faculty Service Award. Her 22 years of service to Temple has included mentoring of students at the undergraduate, master's and PhD levels; significant department, college and university service on committees, including chairing the Great Teacher Committee; serving as a national expert on undergraduate public health education for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other national organizations; and serving as an ex...

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DNP students accepted into Digital Innovators program

Doctor of nursing practice students Colleen Seeber-Combs and Deepali Mathur have been accepted into the Graduate Nursing Student Academy’s Digital Innovators Program for 2023. Participants in the program, a collaboration between GNSA and Apple, receive training in developing digital tools such as tablet-based apps for the future of nursing education. ...

McCallion named to executive committee of leaders in social work research

Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, was named member-at-large of the executive committee for the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education, an organization of deans and directors representing schools of social work across the country. McCallion's research explores evidence-based interventions in health promotion, falls reduction, caregiver support, dementia management and service system redesign. Notably, he is co-founder/co-principal investigator of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Agin...

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Philip McCallion named recipient of ACOSA career achievement award

Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, has been chosen to receive the Association for Community Organization and Social Action’s (ACOSA) 2022 Career Achievement Award. This award honors the lifetime contribution of a person in the field who has made a significant impact in macro-level social work through contributions to empirical knowledge, community practice, and the development of practice methods, especially in partnership with marginalized or underrepresented populations. “If you want to be an agent of social change, you change society for the better,...

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