Fall 2017

Professor Cossy Hough has partnered with alumni Will Francis (MSSW ’10) and Anna Stelter (MSSW ’16) to launch 70% (socialworkershealthpolicy.com), a blog about health policy, the social determinants of health, and social workers’ commitment to advance good health in their places of practice. Why 70%? That’s the estimated influence of… read more 

Doctoral student Hannah Szlyk and colleagues examined the relation between depression and general versus ethnic-biased bullying among 534 Latino students in a large North Carolina school district. They found that ethnic-biased and verbal or relational bullying had a direct effect on depression while general and physical bullying did not. Results… read more 

Projects with Underserved Communities (PUC) is a UT Austin program that pairs engineering and social work students in service-learning collaborations around the world. This past summer, a team went to Thailand to install a filtered water transmission and distribution system for the village of Don Kang, and another team went… read more