Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare and deputy director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The society is composed of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good.
Singer joins Mandel School colleagues David Biegel, the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice, and Claudia J. Coulton, the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Research and Social Change, in the academy.
Singer was inducted at a ceremony for new fellows at the annual meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Tampa, Fla., last fall.