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Mary-Ellen Brown Leads CDC-Funded Pandemic Response Research
For nearly two decades, Mary-Ellen Brown, Ph.D., has studied how stress and trauma shape the resilience, health and well-being of...
Read moreNew book from Mary M. Velasquez, Ph.D., Helps Clinicians Use Setbacks as Opportunities to Strengthen Behavioral Change
Mary Marden Velasquez, Ph.D., has spent more than 30 years studying why people relapse, backslide and start over and turning...
Read moreDr. Kasey Claborn Headlines First Lunch and Learn of the 2026-27 Academic Year
Kasey Claborn headlined the first Lunch and Learn of the academic year at UT Social Work, presented by the Moritz...
Read moreThe Ask was Karaoke Night. Matt Smith Rubio (MSSW '05) Found a Community of Therapists.
The ask was simple. Posted in an online networking group for Austin clinicians: “Come sing karaoke, no shop talk required.”...
Read moreAudrey Hai (Ph.D. ’20) Appointed As Associate Professor at UT Social Work
UT Social Work alumna Audrey Hai (Ph.D. ’20), MSW will return to the Forty Acres as an associate professor at...
Read moreFrom Caseworker to Policy Director: Sammy Menjivar (MSSW '26) Built the Network That Will Build His Career
When Sammy Menjivar (MSSW ’26) came into the MSSW program, his experience in child protective services had already taught him...
Read moreA 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...
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