Congratulations to Dollar Ganu and Amanda Stafford McRell! 🎓🎉
We are beyond proud to celebrate your graduation and continued leadership within the ReCAP Lab! Dollar, your thoughtful approach to research and unwavering commitment to immigrant health equity have deepened the impact of our work. Amanda, your insight, care, and dedication to trauma-informed, community-centered practice have been invaluable to every project you’ve touched. We are so grateful that your journey with the lab continues, and we’re excited to see how your brilliance will keep shaping the field and our shared vision for justice. Here’s to all you’ve accomplished—and all that’s ahead!
McRell Wins USC Fellowship
Amanda Stafford McRell is one of USC’s latest Rhude M. Patterson Fellowship recipients. The award is given to female graduate students to support studies and research. McRell was recently awarded the fellowship in a Graduate School ceremony that recognized its 2025 student winners and Trustee Fellowship recipients.
ReCAP Lab receives Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action (E4A) Grant
In September 2025, the Resilience, Community, Advocacy, and Prevention (ReCAP) Lab, which is directed by Bertranna Muruthi, PhD, assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action (E4A) grant to advance research on youth violence prevention. The ReCAP lab will partner with organizations to examine how structural and systemic factors shape the lives of youth and families, while building evidence for approaches that reduce violence and promote wellbeing.
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