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Master's student awarded 2020 Ima Hogg Scholarship
Master’s student Stella Sacks is the 2020 Ima Hogg Scholarship recipient for The University of Texas at Austin. This scholarship,...
Read morePadilla recognized as 2020 SSWR Fellow
Yolanda Padilla, Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, has been...
Read moreMcRoy inducted into NASW Pioneers program
Ruth McRoy, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor Emerita, has been inducted into the NASW Social Work Pioneers® program, which was...
Read moreTED Talk: Dean Zayas on child separation at the US-Mexico border
How does psychological trauma affect children’s developing brains? In this powerful TED talk, Steve Hicks School of Social Work Dean...
Read moreBusch-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 moreMedicine joins forces with social work - Blueprint for the future
Social work and medicine have long gone hand in hand—though that has not necessarily always been recognized. Over the years,...
Read moreNew Health IPE Fellows
Dean Luis H. Zayas, research assistant professor Farya Phillips and assistant dean for health affairs Dede Sparks have bee selected...
Read moreAn interview with Eboni Calbow
It’s easy to see why Eboni Calbow’s calling is social work. Eboni is incredibly intelligent yet effortlessly humble. She’s spent...
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 moreMost influential social work scholars
Luis H. Zayas, Cynthia Franklin, and Catherine Cubbin cited among the 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty
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