CSW Quick Hits

Dr. Lois Stepney was featured by Ohio State Alumni magazine for AI fluency feature! Read it here.

A special congrats to Dr. Jacquelyn Meshelemiah who was honored during the NASW Gala with the Lifetime Achievement Award!

New open-access research manuscript from the AFIC’s WARM project is now available here.

In partnership with LiFEsports with many others, the Million Coaches report is live with findings available here!

CPDRE’s P.E.A.C.E. Behavioral Health online training is now available here!

Congrats to all our fantastic scholarship recipients that were recognized at our annual Scholarship Dinner!

Congrats to Dr. Alan Davis on being recognized as a 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS!

Hall of Fame nominations are now open for 2026! Nominations will be accepted until May 4, and the luncheon will take place on October 2, 2026.

Congrats to PhD student Charis Stanek who has been selected as a Columbus–Athens Albert Schweitzer Fellow!

New research from Dr. David Kinitz is available for your afternoon read!

LiFEsports Coach Beyond event was recently featured by NBC4 for their “Tell Me Something Good” segment! Watch here.

Congrats to PhD student Yunzi Yu who recently showcased her research on resilience at the Hayes Advanced Research Forum!

Dr. Joyce Lee is hosting an upcoming webinar on AI ethics with SWAN. Register here for the March 11 event!

Read the full Lantern feature with newly-minted gold medalist and BSSW student-athlete Joy Dunne here!

Congratulations to LiFEsports Associate Director Becky Wade-Mdivanian for receiving her Master’s in Science – Sports Management from Ohio State!

Predictors of political participation of U.S. social workers: the mediating effect of confidence” from Dr. Amy Krings is available via Social Work Education. Read it here!

In a collab with the colleges of Social Work and Public Health, Assistant Professor Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, along with her colleagues and students from their lab, “Investigating Spatial Structures in Urban Environments (ISSUES),” recently published a study focused on using AI to better understand the individual, social, and environmental drivers of child fatality.

You can read the full study here! 🔬

“We really wanted to be a leader in the country in providing training so that if someone comes to them in distress from having a psychedelic experience, that they have some basic skills and knowledge about what they can do to support that person.” -Dr. Alan Davis

Read the full feature on P.E.A.C.E. by Spectrum News 1!

In a must-read from Drs. Joyce Lee, Smitha Rao and PhD student Hunmin Cha, an ethical framework for AI use in SW research is established, including six key principles: Equity, Transparency, Human-Centeredness, Integrity, Collaboration and Safety. Read the full article here!

Dr. Michelle Kaiser’s “Cultivating Stewardship: Sustainable Land and Resource Management for Franklinton Farms” was accepted by Ohio State’s Agroecosystem Management Program (AMP)! This program provides funding for hourly undergraduate internship employment. Read more about AMP here.

Check out the latest CarFit newsletter that features the work of the AFIC to provide free emergency roadside to older adults!

Read the full newsletter here!

Dr. Alan Davis was recently featured by NBC4 as the root-derived psychedelic ibogaine comes into focus during the second meeting of the House Ibogaine Study Committee!

Congratulations to Dr. Jacquelyn Meshelemiah who has been appointed as the college’s new associate dean of Academic Affairs, effective May 15, 2026.

Dr. Lois Stepney has been accepted as an affiliate at the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning!

Dr. James Lachaud’s research on Housing First recently cited in New York Times.