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Denise “Dee” Yookong Williams

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Denise “Dee” Yookong Williams, who successfully defended their dissertation proposal. The working title for the dissertation is “Transformational Visual Intervention for Exposure With Suicide (Transformational-VIEWS): Suicide Prevention for Racially Diverse Queer Youth Exposed to Suicide.” The dissertation will focus on an intervention that Williams has developed since they joined the doctoral program. Williams’ dissertation will include a pilot feasibility study and the analysis of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods data. 

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School of Social Work welcomes three new clinical assistant professors 

We spoke with the School's three new professors to learn about their prior experience, what they hope to teach students, why they joined the School and more.
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First-year doctoral student Ally Waters receives research grant for proposal 

School of Social Work first-year doctoral student Ally Waters was recently awarded the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research 2024 Seed Grant Award. Her proposal was titled, “Using Participatory Research Methods to Identify Assets and Opportunities for Diversion and Reentry Services in Rural North Carolina.”  
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UNC School of Social Work ranked No. 4 best graduate school for social work in the nation 

The School of Social Work moved up three spots in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, rising to a tie for fourth in the nation among the 319 surveyed social work schools accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Social Work Education.  
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