Fall 2007 - School of Social Work at the University of Georgia

Social Work students in West Africa
For seven years, students in social work and other
disciplines at UGA have gone to Ghana in the
summer as part of the West African Study Abroad
Program. Cheryl Dozier, who is associate provost
for institutional diversity at UGA and part of the
social work faculty, leads the trip each year along
with assistant professor, Tony Lowe.
The group participated in a symposium with
the School of Social Work in Accra, which is
the capital of Ghana. Students from UGA also
completed a lecture series from the University of
Ghana and the University of Cape Coast and met
with representatives from many human service
agencies.
The group from UGA continued their tradition
of supporting the children of Suga Shea Village
in northern Ghana by presenting the village
with $1,000 donated by faculty, staff, students,
and friends of the School of Social work at
UGA. The money will purchase 60 school
uniforms, 30 pairs of shoes, books for the
library, and various school supplies.
Study abroad in Ghana is a family affair. Two sisters, Cristina Mullin and
Ciara Green (l-r), completed the West African Study Abroad Program this
summer. Ciara currently is an MSW student at the Gwinnett University Center
and Cristina is an undergraduate social science student at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Rambeau is new grants
specialist for the SSW
Melvin Rambeau is the new grants
specialist in the School of Social
Work. As head of the Office of
Research and External Funding,
he provides support to faculty
members who are seeking grants or
who have been awarded grants for
research. Rambeau helps identify
funding opportunities and offers
editorial support for grant proposals,
assistance with budgets and budget
development, and other post-award
assistance. Prior to joining our staff, Rambeau served as a grants
specialist in the University’s Office for Sponsored Programs.
Attention PhD Alumni!
We need your help! In the next few months we
will be sending each of you an alumni survey. But
in order to do that, we need to get your current
information. Please take 5 minutes and visit our
School of Social Work web site. Click on the PhD
Alumni Information Update link on the home page
and fill out the questionnaire.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
Clay joins faculty
Kimberly S. Clay
is a new assistant
professor in the
School of Social
Work. Clay received
her bachelor’s degree
in communications
from Xavier
University of
Louisiana. She completed her graduate
studies in clinical social work and public
health at Tulane University. Following a
health management and policy fellowship
at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Clay pursued doctoral studies
in health education and promotion as a
National Cancer Prevention and Control
Research Fellow at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham (UAB). With NIH support, she
also completed her postdoctoral training
at the UAB Minority Health and Research
Center where she began her focus in cancer
survivorship and spirituality/religiosity
research.
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