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.
School names visiting professor for Spring 2020
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work will welcome Yekoutiel “Couty” Sabah, Ph.D., as a... Read More
Goode receives UNC’s Junior Faculty Development Award
Rachel W. Goode, an assistant professor at UNC School of Social Work, has been chosen to receive a University of North... Read More
MSW/JD alum volunteers for pro bono project to assist mothers and children seeking asylum
Angie Stephenson, MSW/JD ’03, spent one week in Dilley, Texas, in November as a volunteer with the Dilley Pro Bono... Read More
MSW students launch initiative to strengthen NC’s kinship care system
In North Carolina, of the nearly 8,300 children in foster care, 25% are in homes where kin (a relative or non-relative... Read More
Stephenson volunteers for pro bono project to assist mothers and children seeking asylum
Angie Stephenson, MSW/JD ’03, spent one week in Dilley, Texas, in November as a volunteer with the Dilley Pro Bono... Read More
In memory of Rachel Dedmon, Ph.D.
UNC School of Social Work associate professor emerita Rachel Dedmon died on Nov. 29, 2019, in Pawleys Island,... Read More
Dean’s statement on Silent Sam settlement
Like many, I have been dismayed and distressed since the November 27th UNC System statement detailing the settlement... Read More
UNC partners, community leaders break ground on Tiny Homes Village
School of Social Work administrators, faculty and staff joined UNC colleagues, community leaders and others on Nov. 15, to... Read More
Research findings inspire fundraising campaign for domestic violence housing in Orange County
Long-time School of Social Work supporters and local philanthropists Richardson Preyer and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer hosted a... Read More
School mourns the loss of clinical faculty member L. Worth Bolton
L. Worth Bolton, retired clinical faculty member and former director of the School of Social Work’s Certificate Program in... Read More