USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

November 15 - 21, 2020

SW Veteran Student Selected 2020 Social and Behavioral Sciences Awardee

Congratulations to Brande Stow, a veteran in the Social Work program who has been selected as the Social and Behavioral Sciences awardee by the Office of Veteran Success at the annual Honor-A-Bull Award ceremony. Thank you also for Professor Lori Rogovin and Dr. Guitele Rahill for collaborating with Cherell Carrington, LCSW and Adjunct Instructor in our School for making this great video for honoring Brande Stow.

Whitfield to Speak as Part of the Distinguished Lecture in Aging

Keith Whitfield, PhDKeith E. Whitfield, PhD, will present "Examining health disparities within African American families" on Friday, November 20, 2020 at 1:00pm on MS Teams Live.

Dr. Whitfield is the 11th President of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the immediate former Provost and Sr. Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the College of Santa Fe and Masters and PhD degrees in Life Span Developmental Psychology from Texas Tech University, completing a post doctoral fellowship in Quantitative Genetics at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Dr. Whitfield's research on individual differences in minority aging employs a two-prong approach that includes studying individual people and as members of twin pairs. His research examines the etiology of individual variation in health and individual differences in cognition due to health conditions. Dr. Whitfield has collaborated with researchers from Sweden, Russia, and the United States to examine the relationship of social, psychological, and cultural factors on cognition and healthy aging. He has been a continuously funded researcher for more than 20 years through NIA, NIH, and NSF, with projects totaling more than $18 million. He has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles, books, and book chapters. Dr. Whitfield's current research focuses on the relationship between stress and longevity in African American families living in North Carolina.

CBCS In the News

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New Publication
  1. Lynch, M. J., Stretesky, P. B., Long, M. A., & Barrett, K. L. (2020). The Climate Change-Temperature-Crime Hypothesis: Evidence from a Sample of 15 Large US Cities, 2002 to 2015. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. doi:10.1177/0306624x20969934
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