Alumna publishes new book

Alumna and associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Social Work, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Antoinette Y. Farmer's new book Research with Diverse Groups: Research Designs and Multivariate Latent Modeling for Equivalence (co-written with G. L. Farmer), has been published by Oxford Press. Social work researchers often conduct research with groups that are diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic background, or age, and the book introduces the methodological precautions that must be taken into consideration when conducting research with diverse groups.Alumna Antoinette Y. Farmer, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Social Work, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has also been selected to receive the 2014 Departmental Alumni Award from the Department of Psychology in Education at the School of Education, University of Pittsburgh. Farmer is a previous recipient of the School of Social Work Distinguished Alumni Award.