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.
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2024 Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture: Carolyn West highlights importance of empowering sexual assault survivors, becoming strength-based leaders
On Tuesday, March 19, Carolyn West, Ph.D., reflected on her nearly 30-year career spent empowering domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, led a documentary screening in the School of Social Work auditorium and shared experiences with students over breakfast. Read MoreHealing Justice founder, award winner Jennifer Thompson named 2024 commencement speaker
Healing Justice founder and 2016 North Carolinian of the Year Jennifer Thompson will serve as the 2024 commencement speaker for School of Social Work graduates. Read MoreWhole Together Robeson helps rural mothers, children
A community-based partnership, including UNC School of Social Work faculty member Betsy Bledsoe, is improving rural health outcomes. Read MoreLegacy Speakers Series addresses ways to empower individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities
More than 500 licensed social workers, parents, advocates and community leaders joined virtually and in person at the Friday Conference Center on March 8, with the shared goal of finding ways to empower individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities as part of the Legacy Speakers Series. Read MoreNew online MSW students bring their POV to a storied program
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 MoreSpring R3 Symposium to focus on Indigenous student scholars
UNC’s Race, Racism and Racial Equality (R3) Symposium will host its eighth event this spring, welcoming Indigenous student scholars to share their work. Read MoreInternational Women’s Day: Celebrating the women behind the Galapagos Science Center
Through 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 MoreFinding your place
UNC 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 MoreRenowned speaker and intimate partner violence expert to present annual Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture
The 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 MoreHome truths
The 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 More