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A Tower Fellow Finds Perspective in Dean Cole's Resilience Seminar
Jan Neis was 21 years old when she got her first real estate license. She learned the family land development and property management business from the ground up,...
Read moreMary-Ellen Brown, Ph.D., appointed as Director of Faculty Affairs
Mary-Ellen Brown, Ph.D., will serve UT Social Work as Director of Faculty Affairs, an appointment which will strengthen support for...
Read moreEmily Edwards (MSSW '09), LCSW, Transforms Policing through Trauma-Informed Social Work
When a detective new to the Zebulon Police Department in North Carolina noticed that she was interacting with more juveniles...
Read moreContext, Not Excuses: Hannah Vaughan (MSSW ’26) Utilizes Forensic Social Work to Humanize the Condemned
Forensic social work embeds social workers into the criminal justice system, and Hannah Justvig Vaughan (MSSW ’26) serves a unique...
Read moreUT Social Work Announces Appointments of Andrea Menchaca and Laura Swann to Faculty
UT Social Work will welcome two new additional faculty members this fall, as Andrea Menchaca will join the School as...
Read morePostdoctoral fellow earns career development award for studying burnout in peer workers
Dr. Katie McCormick, a postdoctoral fellow at the Addiction Research Institute, received a notice of award for a K01 Career...
Read moreCarol Lewis Named Interim Associate Dean for Research
Dr. Carol Lewis will serve as interim associate dean for research at The University of Texas at Austin School of...
Read moreUT Social Work Welcomes Back Alumna Julie McElrath as Director for Community Partnerships and Strategy
Nearly 50 years after she first set foot on the Forty Acres, Julie McElrath (BSW ’12, MSSW ’14) is coming...
Read moreMultiple faculty members celebrated as Social Work Pioneers
Three faculty members of UT Social Work were celebrated as Social Work Pioneers at the NASW National Conference in Washington,...
Read moreMoritz Center for Societal Impact releases full findings from national AI survey of social workers
When social workers were asked what they need most to use artificial intelligence well, the answer wasn’t more tools —...
Read moreCommunity vinyl drive brings hundreds of records to Dell Seton patients
When Tyler Jorgensen, M.D., a palliative care physician and assistant professor at Dell Medical School, wheels a record player into...
Read moreMilitary spouses face higher rates of depression, anxiety, new survey finds
A national survey from the Institute for Military & Veteran Family Wellness finds that military and veteran spouses experience higher...
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