Research
Busch-Armendariz receives Hamilton Book Award
Professor Noël Busch-Armendariz received the 2019 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award – Textbook for Human trafficking: Applying research, theory, and...
Read moreDoctoral student in winning team for the President's Award for Global Learning
Doctoral student Christian Vazquez is a member of the team that won the 2019-20 President’s Award for Global Learning for...
Read more$2.5 million research award from NIDILRR
Professor Sandy Magaña has been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to study obesity in Latino children with developmental disabilities....
Read moreUniversal design for inclusive science
In the October issue of the Observer, the magazine of the Association for Psychological Science, Postdoctoral Fellow Nazanin Heydarian discusses...
Read moreChoi and DiNitto on older adults' cannabis use
Professors Namkee Choi and Diana DiNitto were among a small group of national experts invited to contribute to a special...
Read moreWant better schools? Teach compassion
Back to school is a time when we can imagine what school could be, before the reality of homework assignments...
Read moreRedefining how we support mental health in Central Texas
As a child of the 1980s and 1990s, I was among the first wave of Millennials raised to be overachievers...
Read moreNamkee Choi earns Presidential Early Career Award
Namkee Choi, social work professor and the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology, is one of five faculty...
Read moreBanning Down syndrome abortions won't change bias toward disabilities
By Deborah Cohen Two years ago, I went into labor seven weeks early. Less than five hours later, my second...
Read moreSenate Bills to save victims of intimate partner violence
In 2017, 136 women in Texas were killed by a male intimate partner. Of the Texas women who reached out...
Read moreNew report: Child sex-trafficking in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — A new study of child sex trafficking in Texas finds that victims are not adequately identified, enter...
Read moreHow Texas can do a better job at preventing maternal mortality
Black mothers in Texas are dying at a rate 2.3 times as high as white mothers regardless of income, education,...
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