Mary-Ellen Brown, Ph.D., will serve UT Social Work as Director of Faculty Affairs, an appointment which will strengthen support for full-time faculty. In addition to her current appointments, Brown will lead initiatives related to faculty r…
When a detective new to the Zebulon Police Department in North Carolina noticed that she was interacting with more juveniles than she had at her former agency, she began digging into its call data, and found a clear pattern emerging. From 2…
Forensic social work embeds social workers into the criminal justice system, and Hannah Justvig Vaughan (MSSW ’26) serves a unique role within that system: advocating for prisoners on death row. As a mitigation specialist in the Capital Hab…
UT Social Work will welcome two new additional faculty members this fall, as Andrea Menchaca will join the School as a clinical assistant professor, and Laura Swann will join as a lecturer. The new appointments add to a record year of growt…
Dr. Katie McCormick, a postdoctoral fellow at the Addiction Research Institute, received a notice of award for a K01 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the US Department of Health and Human Serv…
We tackle the social problems of today and conduct research to face the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace impactful discourse and develop future effective and ethical social work leaders. We address challenging human issues from an interdi…
When Tyler Jorgensen, M.D., a palliative care physician and assistant professor at Dell Medical School, wheels a record player into a patient’s room, he’s offering something medicine can’t prescribe: a way back to somewhere familiar. Jorgen…
A national survey from the Institute for Military & Veteran Family Wellness finds that military and veteran spouses experience higher rates of depression and anxiety than the general public — and that many are navigating those challenges la…
We tackle the social problems of today and conduct research to face the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace impactful discourse and develop future effective and ethical social work leaders. We address challenging human issues from an interdi…
Dean Allan Cole didn’t pick up a bass guitar until he was 55, and it wasn’t until his daughter — now a Plan II student at UT Austin and fellow musician — had heard enough of his reasons to not play an instrument. “When you’re done with the
(originally sent Thursday, March 5, 2026) Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to share several exciting updates, which reflect many months of excellent work by our faculty and staff. We have welcomed two new staff members to the Office of the Asso…
The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work launched a new course this spring — Digital Health and Health Technologies — bringing a timely focus on AI, emerging technology and their implications for social work practice. Instruc…