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March 6, 2017

Spring 2017 IE Kuhn Awards

Social work major Ireneusz Banaczyk has received an Intellectual Entrepreneurship Kuhn Award for the spring 2017 semester. The graduate student mentor is Kristine Fogle, who is in...

February 23, 2017

The charter vs. public school fight

By Cynthia G. S. Franklin, Ph.D.

With Betsy DeVos as the secretary of education and several education bills in the Texas Legislature, the debate about charter schools is...

February 22, 2017

We have ourselves to blame for labor exploitation and trafficking

By Melissa Torres, Ph.D., MSW

When Texans think of human trafficking, they often focus on the victims of sexual exploitation. While it is certainly a...

February 16, 2017

Palliative care is vital for improved quality of life

By Rachel Carnahan-Metzger

In a recent CNN debate about health care, Sen. Ted Cruz said that older adults facing life-threatening diseases in the United...

February 14, 2017

St. David's Foundation continues to fund the GRACE program

The St. David’s Foundation is providing $206,000 to continue and expand the UT Austin’s School of Social Work’s GRACE program (Gerontology Resources and the Aging Community...

February 13, 2017

Trump wants to change Medicaid funding; could his ideas work?

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Medicaid, which has provided safety net health care for millions of Americans with low incomes since 1965, pays for medical...

January 31, 2017

New American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare fellows

Professors Cynthia Franklin and Mary Marden Velasquez were inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare during public ceremonies at the...

January 31, 2017