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A professor in the School of Community Resources and Development (SCRD) who is a senior sustainability scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability has been named interim associate dean of research in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions for the 2020-2021 academic year.

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First responders and essential workers who apply for graduate degree programs at Arizona State University’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions will have their application fees paid for by the college through June 30, Dean Jonathan Koppell announced.

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Kelly Huey’s service to the social work profession has taken her from bedsides to boardrooms.

Social workers are often known to serve the economically disadvantaged, and many of them can be found visiting low-income neighborhoods, giving families tools to cope, to survive and even thrive.

Throughout a more than 30-year career, Huey, who received the 2020 Director’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from ASU’s School of Social Work (SSW) in March, has demonstrated the impact social workers also can have in hospitals and hospice care.

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