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Gary Bowen was elected president of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). He will serve as president-elect until 2009. His term as president will begin in November 2009. Founded in 1938, NCFR provides an educational forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being. Bowen received the NCFR Student Award in 1981 in recognition of demonstrated excellence as a student in family-related studies, with high potential as a future contributor to this field.

Mimi Chapman has received $300,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to implement and evaluate a new mental health services delivery package for new immigrant Latino youth in Chatham County, North Carolina. Partnering with Chapman on the three-year project will be staff members of El Futuro, a mental health agency located in Orange and Chatham counties of North Carolina that addresses the unique mental health needs of the Latino community. Chapman’s project was one of 15 selected from across the country and from a pool of 350 applicants as a part of the RWJF Caring Across Communities Grant Initiative.

Michal Grinstein-Weiss has been awarded a $750,000, three-year grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to study the long-term impact and benefits of individual development accounts -- savings accounts targeted to the poor that provide matched savings, financial education and case management. Account holders can only use the money to purchase a first home, start a small business, pay for post-secondary education and job training, or other investments that promote long-term development.

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IN MEMORIAM

Rachel Sherman '99, 31, of Charlottesville, V.A., died in an automobile accident on April 15, 2007. Born in Elizabeth City, N.C., and raised in Durham, N.C., and Winston- Salem, N.C., Sherman was a graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She worked for The Finance Project in Washington, DC as a researcher and writer helping community organizations across the country finance and sustain local programs for children and families. She played soccer and ran marathons to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and was an active volunteer for Planned Parenthood and the Junior League of Charlottesville. She is survived by her husband, Steven Sherman, and their beloved labs, Dawkins and Rugby, of Charlottesville; her mother, Constance Haberkern of Winston-Salem; her brother and sister-in-law of Charlottesville; and a grandmother of Merrimac, M.A. A memorial service will be held at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 21, 2007 in Durham at the Duke University Chapel. Friends may also sign the guestbook at www.hillandwood.com . In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in memory of Rachel to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Monday - Friday, May 15-18

21st Annual Addiction: Focus on Women Conference

The School of Social Work is a co-sponsor of the 20th Annual Addiction: Focus on Women Conference to be held May 15-19 at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, NC. For more information, please view the conference brochure ..