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Event: The Fifth Annual Liberation-Based Healing Conference, co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, SafePlace and the Institute for Family Services in New Jersey, in conjunction with the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and numerous community agencies.

When: Noon to 5 p.m., Nov. 5 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nov. 6. Where: El Buen Samaritano, [...]

Dr. Barbara W. White, dean of the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin since 1993, plans to step down from that position in August 2011.

The university's provost, Dr. Steven Leslie, said the search for a new dean for the School of Social Work will begin this fall.

White said she [...]

Dr. Steven Hamburg, chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund, one of America's most influential environmental advocacy groups, will speak Sept. 21 at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.

Hamburg's talk, "Can Facing the Climate Challenge Result in Great Society Equity?" will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Utopia Theater of [...]

Four University of Texas at Austin faculty members have been selected to hold a 2010-11 Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, an honor that recognizes outstanding work with undergraduate students.

Drs. Lori Holleran Steiker and Elizabeth Pomeroy of the School of Social Work, Dr. Michael Webber of the Cockrell School of Engineering and Marianne Gedigian of the [...]

Dr. Barbara White, dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, has received the "Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award" from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for her achievements in social work education.

The lifetime achievement award will be presented to White at the CSWE annual meeting Oct. [...]

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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, [...]

Dr. Barbara White, dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, has been selected as an inaugural board member and fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, a society of scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the fields.

The academy, formed last month and aided by [...]