UNC School of Social Work shares news and feature stories through its website, social media channels, alumni magazine Contact, and monthly email newsletter. You can scroll through our news releases by date of release, listed below.
If you have information or questions about news at the School, contact Assistant Dean for Strategic Communications and Marketing Barbara Wiedemann or Assistant Director for Strategic Communications and Marketing Matt Smith.
The process to create an online master’s of social work program started nearly a decade ago, but the plan became solidified in a fifth-floor classroom of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building during the summer of 2022.
Read MoreUNC’s Race, Racism and Racial Equality (R3) Symposium will host its eighth event this spring, welcoming Indigenous student scholars to share their work.
Read MoreThrough the School of Social Work, Chowa conducts research about the needs of community members in the Galapagos to develop a human-centered approach to addressing those needs.
Read MoreUNC School of Social work alum Katherine Loflin is using the tools she learned at UNC to make a big impact in communities around the world.
Read MoreThe School of Social Work is pleased to welcome Carolyn West, Ph.D., as the guest speaker for the 2024 annual Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture Series on March 19, 2024.
Read MoreThe School of Social Work's Hsun-Ta Hsu combines machine learning with data and community feedback to determine better housing solutions for homeless populations across the United States.
Read MoreAfter a three-year hiatus, students from the University of North Carolina School of Social Work “all pulled together” to bring back one of the School’s beloved traditions — Harambee.
Read MoreIn late January, a group of delegates from North Africa gathered on the fifth floor of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building for a presentation on UNC-Chapel Hill’s efforts to prevent human trafficking.
Read MoreUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work researchers helped the school secure a top four placement in the latest NSF HERD Survey.
Read MoreSchool of Social Work faculty member Amy Blank Wilson was a co-author on a recently published paper examining youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the foster care system.
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