Aug. 30, 2022
Katie Fandrey: New faculty Q&A
Assistant Teaching Professor, Physical Therapy What classes are you teaching this semester? This semester, I will be a lab assistant for Physical Therapy Case Management: Geriatrics/Orthopedics. In addition to teaching, I am serving as the assistant director of clinical education [in the Department of Physical Therapy]. In this role, I will be helping to place students in their clinical internships, [helping] teach Introduction to Clinical Education to first-year students and acting as a clinical instructor in PhysZou. What do you love about teaching? What are you most looking forward to this semester? I love working with students who are passionate…
Aug. 30, 2022
Dee Sharrock: New faculty Q&A
Assistant Clinical Professor, Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound What classes are you teaching this semester? Normal Ultrasound Clinical DMU 3309 Problems in DMU (WI) DMU 4085W Ultrasound Clinical II DMU 4493 What do you love about teaching? What are you most looking forward to? I love helping students acquire skills in the scan lab! I am looking forward to the progress the students will make over the course of the semester. Tell us a little about yourself! What is your background? I have been working as an ultrasound technologist at MU Health Care for the last 13 years. Prior to that, I…
Aug. 30, 2022
Dan Hanneken: New faculty Q&A
Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Social Work What classes are you teaching this semester? I am teaching Criminal Justice & Delinquency, Corrections, and Social Treatment this semester. What do you love about teaching? Preparing future professionals to be effective in their work. What are you most looking forward to this semester? Meeting first-year students and encouraging them and the other students to make the best of their experience at MU. Tell us a little about yourself! I was an adjunct for 10 years prior to becoming faculty. I love to travel with my wife, and we sometimes enjoy bringing our…
Aug. 30, 2022
Brittney Stevenson: New faculty Q&A
Assistant Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy What classes are you teaching this semester? I am teaching OC THR 4140 (OTA Practice for School Aged Children & Adolescents, OC THR 3020 (OTA Theory & Practice) and OC THR 5120 (Principles of Assessment). I am also supervising OTD students in their pediatric practicum experience in OC THR 5450. What do you love about teaching? What are you most looking forward to this semester? The best part about teaching is seeing those lightbulb moments when students make connections between real-life experiences and class content. I love seeing the growth and connections students make! Tell…
Aug. 30, 2022
Andy Frey: New faculty Q&A
Professor, School of Social Work Through MizzouForward, you were hired as a “research leader with a passion for collaboration and the grit to address our world’s more pressing research challenges.” How will those qualities affect your work at Mizzou? I will use my first year in the MizzouForward program to get my research that is underway in Louisville, Kentucky, finished and make progress on some lines of research that I am very optimistic about, given my new colleagues at Mizzou. This will also give me time to understand the social work curriculum and assess how I can have the…
Aug. 30, 2022
Faculty celebrate milestone years of service
Congratulations to Health Professions faculty celebrating milestone years of service to MU! View a list of all MU faculty celebrating milestone years of service. 10 years Botswana Blackburn, Health SciencesKristin Flynn Peters, Health Sciences 20 years Stephen Ball, Physical TherapyKimberly Keller, Health SciencesEvan Prost, Physical Therapy…
Aug. 25, 2022
Emphasizing empathy: strengthening the bond between incarcerated mothers and their children
Ashley Givens first got into social work because she wanted to help underserved youth. During her years of study and research, her focus turned to working with mental health and the adult criminal legal system. Now an assistant professor of social work at Mizzou, Givens’ interests have come full circle: She recently received a Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant to study using structured journaling to strengthen the bond between incarcerated mothers and their children. “It’s a way for these women to reconnect with their kids and maintain the mother-child bond in a directed, meaningful way,” Givens says. Givens’…
Aug. 25, 2022
Surprising snapshot of trafficking survivors
Contrary to common belief, the portrait of a human-trafficking survivor in Missouri is not that of a young, white teenager who is abducted and forced into the sex trade. Instead, Kathleen Preble’s survey of the state’s social service providers found that survivors usually are Black or brown (46%) and Asian (10%). The assistant professor of social work also found that 18- to 35-year-olds make up the bulk of the survivors (56%). The vast majority were not immigrants but rather poor or working-class U.S. citizens trafficked for sex (83%), labor (5%) or both (13%). In considering survivors’ prospects for…
Aug. 25, 2022
Loren Bauerband receives $411,000 NIH grant to address social gender dysphoria
The National Institutes of Health awarded Loren Bauerband, assistant professor, $411,000 to study the relationship between external experiences and internal responses for transgender and gender non-binary individuals. Their research will help practitioners tailor mental health interventions for individuals with social gender dysphoria. Dr. Bauerband is co-PI on the project, “Gender Dysphoria as a Measure of Proximal Stress: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Novel Measure of Social Gender Dysphoria,” with Dr. Paz Galupo of Towson University. The two-year project will examine gender dysphoria as a proximal stressor (an internal response to social pressures or prejudices), rooted in a dynamic…
Aug. 25, 2022
Stepping In2Action for former inmates
Dan Hanneken photo by Rob Hill Dan Hanneken knows all too well that releasing a person from prison doesn’t free him from the problems, habits and environment that led to incarceration. Before learning that lesson, the assistant teaching professor in the School of Social Work served three sentences as a violent offender. Today, Hanneken, BSW ’06, MSW ’08, not only turns life experiences into teachable moments for social work students but also helps newly released inmates get back on their feet. In2Action, the residential transition program he founded and directs, provides drug-free housing for up to 50 former offenders…