Psychology Research Team Receives Social Justice Award
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Addy & Uno/Realabilities Research Team presenting at the 30th Annual Greater New York Behavioral Conference
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Addy & Uno/Realabilities Research Team receives The 2018 Meredith Hanson Award for Outstanding Social Justice Research at the 30th Annual Greater New York Behavioral Conference
The Psychology Department’s Addy & Uno/Realabilities Research Team (Patrick Riley ’20, Amanda Anzovino ’19, and Lauren Ashbrook ’19), led by Associate Professor of Psychology Nava R. Silton, Ph.D., received The 2018 Meredith Hanson Award at the 30th Annual Greater New York Behavioral Conference. The team presented their research titled “Kindness Makes a Difference: Assessing the Efficacy of Addy & Uno, An Off-Broadway Musical, andThe Realabilities Educational Comic Book Curriculum,” which highlighted the success the series has had in promoting a stop-bullying platform and enhancing the understanding and sensitivity of typical children towards children with disabilities.
The Meredith Hanson Award is granted for the “Most Outstanding Student Research on Social Justice” and is named after the former Director of the Doctoral Program of the Fordham Graduate School of Social Service, Dr. Meredith Hanson. The Greater New York Behavioral Conference is organized each fall to showcase the research of undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the behavioral sciences. The theme of this year’s conference, held at Fordham University, was “30 years of promoting student research excellence.”
Addy & Uno is an Off-Broadway Musical currently playing at The Kirk Theater on Theatre Row on 42nd Street, with performances every Sunday at 12pm. To learn more about the Realabilities Educational Comic Book Curriculum, please click here.
Professor Nava Silton has had a varied career in health and human development. She’s created graphic novels about the adventures of children with visible and invisible disabilities and produced an off-Broadway musical about disabilities and bullying. Levar Burton and The Jim Henson Company are developing two of her projects for the small screen.
But she wouldn’t have been able to envision it in her early days as a premed student; back then, she thought building a career in health meant following a narrow professional track. “I remember thinking, okay, maybe I’ll be a physician or teach in a medical school,” she said. “I’d always been creative, but I never thought it would relate to any professional goals I’d have in health.”
That changed when she took a developmental psychology class that showed her how rich and exciting the field could be and worked with a professor who helped her realize that creativity could be an asset in health—and not just a passion she pursued on the side.
Now, as the director of MMC’s new Center for Health, Human Development, and Creativity, Dr. Silton is helping Marymount Manhattan students reach that same understanding from the moment they step foot on campus.