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.
Strong Couples-Strong Children program helps fragile families stay together
Studies show that children from single-parent households are more likely to live in poverty and are at greater risk for... Read More
School launches the North Carolina Clearinghouse on Family and Child Well-being
Assisting parents and children in crisis can be challenging, but a new Web site launched by the University of North Carolina... Read More
Former social worker gives $1.4 million to the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work
In the 1950s, as a young social services worker in some of North Carolina’s most rural communities, Melvarene Adair... Read More
School of Social Work receives $1 million to establish professorship, innovations fund
Sam and Betsy Reeves of Fresno, Calif., have donated $1 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to... Read More
Aging expert Florence Soltys dies at 72
The School of Social Work lost a beloved teacher, advocate and volunteer when Florence Soltys died on September 27, 2007.... Read More
UNC receives $375,000 grant for project to help local elementary schools
Strowd Roses Inc. and the Triangle Community Foundation have pledged grants totaling $375,000 to the Carolina Center for... Read More