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TIP Lab team shares human trafficking research with honors students
Colby Valentine, PhD, assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Criminology, and doctoral students Klejdis Bilali, MA and Emily Walker, MA spoke about the research being done by the USF Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Risk to Resilience Research Lab as part of the Judy Genshaft Honors College Student Council's Leadership Lecture Series. They discussed human trafficking awareness, the lab's current projects, combatting human trafficking in a sustainable way, and how students can be allies for victims. This year's theme for the Honors College is sustainability, and a main goal of the TIP Lab is to determine existing resources as well as create new resources to build effective and sustainable partnerships to eradicate human trafficking in our communities and those surrounding it. Read more.
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NYC council member targeted over drag story hour
PIX11
"David Kilmnick runs the Queens LGBT Network and says the incidents show why the program is needed in the first place."
Idaho murders put spotlight on criminology students
Times Higher Education
"But a university-based expert, Bryanna Fox, an associate professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, warned against..."
Predicting which hackers will become persistent threats
AT&T Cybersecurity
"C. Jordan Howell, PhD discusses website defacement, threat actors, and predicting which new hackers will become persistent threats."
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2023's Best States to Retire
WalletHub
"Kathy Black is a professor of aging studies at the University of South Florida."
Report: Hoosier State 31st nationally for retirees
The Center Square
"Kathy Black, a professor of aging studies at the University of South Florida, said people need to think carefully about where they plan to spend their golden years."
How Noob Website Hackers Can Become Persistent Threats
Dark Reading
"Christian Howell, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, and David Maimon, a professor at Georgia State University's Department of Criminal..."
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Defense of a Doctoral Dissertation | |
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Title: An Examination of Racial Disparities in Arrest Across Florida Counties, 1998-2018: A Test of the Racial Threat and Political Threat Hypotheses
Student: Xavier D. Burch
Program: Criminology
Date: Friday, Feb. 3, 2023
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: SOC 351 or Microsoft Teams (Meeting ID: 267 670 798 21 Passcode: Xe4E6F)
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Title: Understanding and Measuring Family-Teacher Partnerships
Student: Emily Baton
Program: Behavioral and Community Sciences
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: MHC 1301 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 850 6302 6247 Passcode: 02212023)
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Jerome Galea, PhD, MSW, RCSWI
Development and pilot testing of an optimized conversational agent or "chatbot" for Peruvian adolescents living with HIV to facilitate mental health screening, education, self-help, and linkage to care
Sponsor: International AIDS Society (IAS)
1/1/2023-12/31/2024
Award Amount: $150,00
Adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) are disproportionally affected by depression which reduces adherence to HIV antiretrovirals, increases viral load, and doubles mortality risk. Because most ALWH live in low- and middle-income countries, few receive depression treatment due to a severe lack of mental health services and specialists in low-resource settings.
This proposal develops and tests for feasibility and acceptability of a “chatbot” to deliver depression education, self-help skills, and care linkage for ALWH in Lima, Peru and builds on several years’ experience by our team in providing accompaniment to ALWH struggling to maintain optimal antiretroviral adherence. Borne out of our work with Peruvian ALWH, this project is in direct response to their request to increase access to depression care services.
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“Opportunities and challenges of integrating social
care and caregiver support in hospitals to improve
health and health equity for persons living with
dementia and their care partners"
Feb. 24 | 11 a.m.
MHC Atrium & Microsoft Teams
Jung Kwak, PhD, MSW, FGSA is a graduate of the PhD in Aging Studies Program at USF. Her program of research focuses on improving access to and quality of long-term and palliative care that is more inclusive and equitable for older adults living with dementia and their care partners. Kwak teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics of healthcare and on end-of-life care and was a recent recipient of the Texas 10 Award recognizing professors who have enriched the lives of their students.
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“Infusing Anti-Racist and Anti-Ageist Principles into Productive Aging Scholarship - Confronting ‘No Data...No Problem’”
March 24 | 11 a.m.
MHC Atrium & Microsoft Teams
Ernest Gonzales, PhD, MSSW is a first-gen Latinx gerontologist who is a scholar in the areas of productive aging, health equity, discrimination, and social policy. His research advances our understanding of the relationships between healthy aging, social determinants of health, productive activities, and intergenerational contexts. Gonzales' work is supported by many funders, including the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Social Security Administration, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and is published in leading scientific journals.
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