By Grace Farley, BSW ’21 In my second year on the Forty Acres, I was hired as the inaugural resident assistant (RA) for the First-Generation Living Learning Community, UT Austin’s first residence hall for students who are the first in their families to go to college. As an RA, I… read more
Spring 2021
Winter of 2021
By Nicole Gollis Golden, MSSW ’04 On Thursday at 5:00 a.m, power was restored at my home in Austin after 75 hours without heat or electricity. For those few days, the temperature read 44 degrees inside during the daytime, while lows outside dipped into the single digits at night. In… read more
Removing the stigma of addiction
Megan and Matthew Szabo Endowed Excellence Fund at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Liz Pires thought it odd when spoons started vanishing from her kitchen. She asked her teenage children, Matt and Megan, to please put used spoons in the sink or dishwasher and make sure they were… read more
