cancer patients

Students Donate to Locks of Love Monday

Planning Ahead, Austin  Thu, 05/20/2010 - 1:00am

Martin Middle School is teaming up with Jackson Ruiz Salon to donate hair to Locks of Love to help cancer patients and children with alopecia, an auto-immune disorder that causes the hair follicles to shut down.

The donations will take place starting at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 24, at Martin Middle School, located at 1601 Haskell St.

Hair stylists from Jackson Ruiz Salon will cut and style hair for students who donate at least 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love.



 

New course, first in nation, blends social work, oncology

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 12/17/2009 - 2:36pm

University of Texas at Austin students are learning how to help cancer patients and their families with issues of stress, coping, grief and survivorship through a new course bringing together the fields of social work and oncology, the first academic class of its kind in the nation.

The aim of the School of Social Work course, [...]