Scarlett Benjamin's article title "Ten Tips for Integrating the Classroom and Fieldwork" will be published ina future issue of The New Social Worker. She is a Ph.D. candidate.

Devvon Bradley presented “Combat/Operational Stress Reaction and What to Do About It” to the faculty, administration, and precommand at the Army Medical Department Center and School at Fort Sam in Houston, Texas. He also conceptualized and managed his fifth cycle of the Behavioral Science Officer Track at Fort Sam. This track is a three-week course designed to prepare U.S. Army social work officers and psychologists for deploying to a hostile environment and focuses on preventing and treating combat/operational stress reactions to navigation on the battlefield and in hand-to-hand combat. Devvon was recertified as a board-certified diplomate for the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. He was also awarded his second Meritorious Service Medal.

Brent Cagle was invited participant at the Fifth Annual Transforming Social Work Practice, Education, and Inquiry Gathering in Burlington, Vt. He presented “Working with South Carolina’s LGBT Youth: Results from a Three-Site Study” at the 2004 South Carolina HIV/STD Conference in Columbia with Tracy Leyda, BSW. Brent also presented “Bringing it Out in the Open: Using Case Methods to Explore Spirituality and Religion” at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work in Binghamton, N.Y., with doctoral student colleague Jay Palmer, LISW.

Jong Baek Choi, who completed his Ph.D. in 2003, is an assistant professor at California State University in Bakersfield.

In Soo Chung completed his Ph.D. in 2004 and is now an assistant professor of social work at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C.

Stephanie Cooper-Lewter, MS, first-year doctoral student, is the recipient of a Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship in Clinical Training, with an emphasis on mental health and substance abuse. The fellowship, funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, prepares ethnic minority doctoral students to pursuer NIMH-funded research. Stephanie, a master’s graduate of the University of Minnesota, recently served as the president/CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Columbia. She received an Outstanding Service Award from USC President Andrew Sorensen. Her research interests include resilience across the lifespan, mental health disparities among ethnic minorities with an emphasis on immigration, acculturation, and multigenerational legacy issues.

Stephanie K. Cooper-Lewter awarded a Graduate School Centennial Fellowship

Chuck Kuhn, Ph.D., is the new continuing education coordinator and a part-time professor at USC. He is also a full-time faculty member at Limestone College’s Columbia campus.

Darcy Luadzers, Ph.D., wrote a new book, Virgin Sex (2004), and has appeard on several local and national radio and television programs. Darcy and her husband, Jack, are certified sex therapists.

Robert E. Saunders Jr., Ph.D., LCSW, BCD (2004), is a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Service Corps and chief of the Department of Social Work at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam in Houston, Texas. His e-mail address is roberte.saunders@us.army.mil.

Michael Sherr completed his Ph.D. in 2003 and is now an assistant professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.

Glenda Short, Ph.D., is director of the Springfield/Joplin Missouri MSW program. She is at Southwest Missouri State University.

Flex Blumhardt: “Common Couple Violence: Perceptions and Practice”

In Soo Chung: “Factors Affecting the Retirement Satisfaction of the Korean American Elderly”

Maureen Rubin: “Multiple Interventions and Outcome in Schizophrenia”

Robert Saunders: “A Study of Distance Communication Modality Usage and Separation Adjustment of Military Personnel: Effects of Homesickness, Contentment, and Perceived Sense of Social Support”

Bennett, H., and Cagle, B.E. (in press). “A Little Earring?!” [Case notes]. In T.A. Wolfer and T.L. Scales (eds.), Thinking Like a Social Worker: Decision Cases for Advanced Practice. Pacific Grove, Calif: Brooks/Cole.

Cagle, B.E. (in press). “Social Work.” In J.T. Sears (ed.), [Homo]Sexualities, Education, and Youth: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood.

Joseph Herzog presented “On the Home Front: Systemic Therapy with Military Families” at the Georgia Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Spring Confernece with Blaine Everson, MS.

Sweta Tewary published “Asian Indian Immigrant Women: A Theoretical Perspective on Mental Health” in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (10:4).