Temple names HIV researcher to be SSA dean

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Temple University President David Adamany and Provost Ira M. Schwartz earlier this week announced the appointment of Larry D. Icard as dean of Temple’s School of Social Administration. Icard’s appointment as dean will take effect on September 1.

Nationally respected in the areas of HIV prevention, as well as minority and gay/lesbian issues, Icard was recently a nominee for the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Presidential Award for Promising New Researcher.

Since 2000, Icard has secured more than $6 million in grant-funded research, and is principal investigator on a $2.78 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) titled “Helping Families Reduce HIV in African-American Youth.” Icard will bring more than $1.5 million in NIH grants with him when he assumes his new responsibilities at Temple.

“We are extremely pleased to have a scholar of Dr. Icard’s caliber as our new dean of Temple’s School of Social Administration,” Adamany said. “Larry’s achievements as a researcher are second-to-none, and we are confident that he will provide outstanding leadership as dean.”

Icard is currently associate professor and director of the Center for Intervention and Practice Research at the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Icard serves as director of Penn’s doctoral program in social welfare.

Prior to joining the Penn faculty in July 2000, Icard served as an associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work, one of the top social work programs in the nation, from 1993 to 2000.

From 1980 to 1993, Icard was on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati School of Social Work, rising from the rank of assistant to associate professor of social work in 1987. At Cincinnati, Icard served six years as chair of the baccalaureate program for the School of Social Work, and as acting director of the School during the summer of 1982.

From 1976 to 1980, Icard served as an assistant professor at the West Virginia University School of Social Work. Icard began his career in 1972 as a public welfare worker for the State Department of Public Welfare in Dallas, Texas.

“I am very pleased to have the opportunity to join the faculty of Temple University,” Icard said. “Temple’s School of Social Administration has a well-deserved reputation of providing strong clinical training, and I look forward to building the School’s research capacity, developing a doctoral program, and enhancing the School’s national esteem.

“I firmly believe that we can achieve these goals while helping to bridge the gap between academia and the practice community,” Icard continued. “I am especially pleased to be joining my former colleague, Temple Provost Ira Schwartz, who helped me establish the Center for Intervention and Practice Research at Penn in 2000.”

“Larry is a nationally respected educator and researcher, and one of the leading scholars in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention,” Schwartz said. “He is a superb choice to lead Temple’s School of Social Administration.”

Icard received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1992, his master’s degree from West Virginia University, and his bachelor’s degree from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte.