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SSWR 22nd Annual Conference Faculty/Doctoral Presentations The UA School of Social Work is pleased to announce the following faculty and student research presentations for the 2018 Society for Social Work […]

  November 14, 2017 PhD student Taylor Ellis had three minutes to explain his research thesis in UA’s 2017 3MT®, or Three Minute Thesis, competition. UA students competed for the […]

November 13, 2017 For a class community service project, UA social work students hosted a Fall Festival at McDonald Hughes Community Center in west Tuscaloosa on Saturday. About 50 people […]

In honor of Veterans Day, Governor Kay Ivey has charged the veterans group Alabama Executive Veterans Network (AlaVetNet) to identify issues facing military service members and veterans in the state. […]

The University of Alabama’s School of Social Work has been awarded a $1.35 million grant from the United States Department of Justice to improve outcomes of Alabama youths who are […]

Of Alabama’s 736 reported drug overdose deaths in 2015, 38 percent were caused by opioids, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation review of data collected by the Centers for Disease […]

July 10, 2017 Emma Sophia Kay, a fourth-year PhD student in the UA School of Social Work, was recently selected as a 2017-2018 Social Work Health Care Education and Leadership […]

June 19, 2017 The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, and the University of Alabama’s School of Social Work will present a conference aimed at helping veterans […]

Second-year MSW student Katrena Dale and MSW May graduate Theresa Sprain were victims’ services interns at the Tuscaloosa District Attorney’s office this spring, where they completed individual assessments for victims […]

Kevin Corcoran, professor of social work, encourages students to think of practical, creative and innovative ways to impact the field of social work. Some of his students at UA created […]