Denise King, a doctoral student at the University of Marland School of Social Work has been named a prestigious Hartford Doctoral Fellow, a program funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administeredby by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. James Lubben.   King is the latest among several UMB SSW PhD students and faculty members named Hartford Doctoral Fellows.

King receives a $50,000 dissertation grant that will enable her to more fully concentrate on her dissertation research project over the next two years. King's dissertation is entitled "Religious Coping, Formal Service Use, and Gain Among African American Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease."

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Amy Cohen-Callow has also been awarded a Hartford Doctoral Fellow.

Cohen-Callow receives a dissertation grant that will enable her to more fully concentrate on her dissertation research project over the next two years. Her dissertation is entitled "Volunteerism as a Protective Factor for Older Adults: Testing a Model of Volunteer Behavior."

This fellowship program is a component of the nationwide Geriatric Social Work Initiative, which seeks to expand the training of social workers in order to improve the health and well being of older persons and their families. It was created to help social work doctoral students overcome their greatest obstacles, such as limited teacher training and career guidance. These fellowships cultivate the next generation of geriatric social work faculty as teachers, role models and mentors for future generations of geriatric social workers.