Professor Linda Sprague-Martinez Finalist for the Annual Ernest A. Lynton Award

New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy at Merrimack College announced the selection of eight finalists for the 2015 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. The award recognizes a faculty member, either pre-tenure or early career at tenure long-term contract institutions, who connects his of her teaching, research, and service to community engagement. One of this year’s finalists was BUSSW’s very own Professor Linda Sprague-Martinez.

Dr. Sprague-Martinez joined the faculty at BUSSW as an Assistant Professor of Macro Practice- Public Health and Community Medicine in 2014. Her work focuses on the relationship between culture and health as she is interested in how local and organizational policies both directly and indirectly influence the wellbeing of urban communities of color, and how assets can be recognized and leveraged by communities and organizations to improve living environments.

The 2015 Ernest A. Lynton Award went to Dr. Eric DeMeulenaere, Assistant Professor of Urban Schooling in the Department of Education at Clark University.