Professor Paula Nurius is the first recipient of the Educational Leadership in Doctoral Education award from the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work. The award recognizes current or former faculty members who are committed to doctoral education at the national or international level.
Nurius, who joined the UW in 1984, is the Grace Beals-Ferguson Scholar and Professor, associate dean for transdisciplinary scholarship, and fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. She served as doctoral program director for seven years and directed a prevention research training program funded by the National Institutes of Health for 16 years. She studies processes and effects of life course stress and trauma on vulnerable and socially disadvantaged populations.
In nominating Nurius for the award, Dean Eddie Uehara praised her “innovative, boundary-spanning work” resulting in interdisciplinary partnerships across the University of Washington campus that benefit doctoral students and further the field of social work.”