The School of Social Work is committed to developing professionals and supporting agencies to serve older adults.
The University’s location in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and Southwestern Pennsylvania provides a rich environment for learning about older adults and their needs. Allegheny County is one of the oldest counties in the United States and has over 200 organizations and agencies which provide services to older adults.
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Winners of 2026 Aging and Gerontology Paper Awards
Thanks to a generous donor, one MSW and one BASW paper offering Insights on Aging and Gerontology are being recognized with an award. The BASW awardee is Zoe Correale, who graduated this term, with a paper entitled “Geriatric Psychiatry Patient Discharge: Examining Barriers to discharge of Older Adults” and the MSW awardee is Keran Zheng with a paper entitled “Cumulative Adversity and Resilience: Older Asian Immigrants with Historical Trauma.” Ms. Zheng has completed her first year in the MSW Program and is a research assistant in Dr. Quinton Cotton’s GLOW Lab. Many thanks and congratulations to all the BASW and MSW students who submitted wonderful papers. We want to thank the faculty (current and retired) and alumni volunteers who reviewed the papers.
The call for papers will go out again in Spring 2027.