https://vimeo.com/322890000 The Steve Hicks School and the Dell Medical School are advancing the role of social work as an agent of health care transformation through the creation of the Department of Health Social Work, the first of its kind in the nation to be embedded in a medical school. The department provides an academic home […]
Fall 2019
Depression and the heart
One third of individuals suffering from depression do not achieve remission after multiple treatment attempts. Professor Fiona Conway and colleagues are exploring whether paying attention to certain biological processes can help make depression treatments more effective. Their study, published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, examines how individual variations in heart rate were related to […]
Partnering to prevent evictions
In an effort to bring social workers to the forefront of solving housing instability, the Steve Hicks School of Social Work has partnered with Main Street Renewal, a for-profit property management company, to create a pilot eviction-prevention program. Through the CARES (Client Assessment Resources Empowerment Services) program, a a team of social work students regularly […]
Sparking success
Only 1 – 2 % of Texas students who have been in foster care graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Spark is a new program of the Steve Hicks School’s Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing that seeks to improve college graduation rates of students who’ve experience foster and kinship care, including those who have […]
Fall 2019 Class Notes
We are proud of our alumni and the positive impact they are making in their communities. Submit your recent news here. ‘73 Adolfo Reyes, MSSW ‘73, continues to be active in social work by serving clients from hospice and home health agencies in the Rio Grande Valley. ‘74 Ellen Rubenstein Fisher, MSSW ‘74, and her […]
2019 Alum of the Year
Ramón Gómez, MSSW ‘01, 2019 Charles I. Wright Distinguished Alum Current position: Director of student and community affairs, Steve Hicks School of Social Work A memory from field: I vividly remember meeting my practice professor, Keva Miller, at orientation. When they were doing the faculty introductions, she stood up, said her name, answered a few questions […]
Your gifts at work
Gifts to the Steve Hicks School of Social Work produce powerful, lasting returns. They help create knowledge, advance research, strengthen communities, and enrich student experiences. Most importantly, they help educate social workers who will go on to make a positive impact in the lives of countless individuals, families and communities. These are three examples of […]
Fall 2019 Community
Why I Give Hannah Powers, BSW ’15, MSSW ‘18 Hannah Powers didn’t wait to graduate to start giving back. She donated during the university-wide annual campaign, 40 Hours for the Forty Acres, while she was still in the master’s program. Her donation went to the SWAN scholarship fund. “I saw that the funds were going […]
We mourn the loss of Dean Emeritus Barbara W. White
Barbara W. White, dean emeritus, passed away July 19 in her Austin home surrounded by her family. She was born Feb. 26, 1943, in Jacksonville, Florida. She received a Master of Social Work and a doctorate in political science from Florida State University. White was the first African American dean in The University of Texas […]
