Aranda Receives High Honor
María P. Aranda has been appointed Distinguished Professor, one of USC’s highest faculty honors recognizing outstanding scholarly success.
Jiaming Liang awarded IJBM Regional Award for Excellence in Publication in Behavioral Medicine
Jiaming Liang, PhD ’22, awarded the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (IJBM) Regional Award for Excellence in Publication in Behavioral Medicine (North America) for his paper on “The Role of Social Isolation on Mediating Depression and Anxiety among Primary Family Caregivers
USC recognizes two distinguished social work scholars
Professors María Aranda and Yuri Jang honored by USC at the 44th Annual Faculty Academic Honors Convocation ceremony on April 16, 2025 in recognition of their induction into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), one the highest honors bestowed in
Juyoung Park, PhD student, receives two awards
Juyoung Park was honored with the 2024 Korean American Social Work Educators Association (KASWEA) Dissertation Proposal Award and selected as a 2024 GSA Diversity Mentoring and Career Development Fellow. These prestigious awards celebrate innovative research addressing critical social work challenges
María P. Aranda receives research recognition award from National Hispanic Council on Aging
María P. Aranda, the Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger professor in Social Policy and Administration and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, is named the 2024 recipient of the Research Recognition Award from the National Hispanic
Professors selected as 2024 Fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Two distinguished faculty members of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work are selected for induction into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) for 2024. María P. Aranda, the Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger Professor
Aranda Earns 2022 James Jackson Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Gerontological Society of America
María P. Aranda, professor and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, has been selected to receive the 2022 James Jackson Outstanding Mentorship Award by the Gerontological Society of America. This honor is presented in recognition
NIH Awards Grant for Conference Series on Alzheimer’s and Dementia Disparities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting a two-installment conference series starting in 2019 that will be organized and hosted by USC Roybal Institute, which will bring together emerging and senior scholars to address health disparities that influence health
Roybal Researchers Receive 2018 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award
The USC Roybal Institute research team of Kexin Yu, Shinyi Wu, Pey-Jiuan Lee, Hsin-Yi Hsiao, Yi-Chuan Tseng and Iris Chi were honored with the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2018 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award for their paper “Longitudinal Effects