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On January 22, Berkeley Social Welfare’s newly established Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE) honored its first cohort of stipend recipients. Comprising 20 students in their first or second year of the MSW program, the awardees were selected for their demonstrated passion and...Read more about Latinx Center of Excellence Honors Stipend Recipients

Berkeley Social Welfare Professor Kurt Organista has been named the recipient of the 2017-18 Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service, which is awarded annually by UC Berkeley's Commitee of Diversity, Equity and Campus Climate (DECC). The Henkin Citation...Read more about Professor Organista Honored for Equity, Diversity Work

UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor of Community Health and Human Development and Berkeley Social Welfare affiliated faculty member Emily Ozer has been named a recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA).

Dr. Ozer's...Read more about Affiliated Faculty Emily Ozer to Receive Mentor Award

Former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums (MSW '62) grew up on Wood Street in West Oakland, attended Oakland schools and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. After graduating from San Francisco State University, Dellums attended the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley in 1960-62. He...Read more about Ron Dellums (MSW '62) on political engagement and becoming the "black Sigmund Freud"

Former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums (MSW '62) grew up on Wood Street in West Oakland, attended Oakland schools and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. After graduating from San Francisco State University, Dellums attended the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley in 1960-62. He...Read more about Ron Dellums (MSW '62) on political engagement and becoming the "black Sigmund Freud"

Arabella Martinez is perhaps best known as the woman who made the Fruitvale Village possible. But her service to the community stretched over forty years, and resulted in far more than a pedestrian plaza.

“When we first started to work in Fruitvale, people were afraid to be on the...Read more about Arabella Martinez (MSW '66) on organizing communities and teaching how to lead

Everything Barbara Lee (MSW '75) does – be it campaigning against poverty, advocating for AIDS research, or voting against giving the President the power to declare war – is informed by the social work values she learned at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

"A clinical...Read more about Congresswoman Barbara Lee (MSW ’75) on fighting the good fight

PhD student Katie Savin's authored a New York Times op-ed, "My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force," about the connection she found with her "fellow-in-a-wheelchair bus rider" Olantis.Read more about New York Times Op-Ed: "My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force"

At the height of the Napa and Sonoma Country wildfires, Berkeley Social Welfare major and Marine Corps veteran Matthew Smith (BA '18)...Read more about Matthew Smith (BA' 18) Organizes Cal Aid to Wildfires

Berkeley Social Welfare Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison has received an award totaling nearly $209,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund her investigation into the nature and impact of social networks and social support on substance...Read more about Dr. Kerrison Receives National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant

Berkeley Social Welfare Assistant Professor Anu Manchikanti Gomezhas been named one of this year's 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders.

The three-year program annually honors 40 reproductive health and family planning leaders, service...Read more about Dr. Anu Gomez Named 120 Under 40 Winner

Berkeley Social Welfare, in partnership with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Planned Parenthood of Northern California, has received a planning grant from Gilead Sciences totaling nearly $150,000 to develop a sexual health assessment tool for determining patients' HIV risk and...Read more about School Awarded Grant to Develop HIV Risk Assessment Tool

Berkeley Social Welfare Assistant Professors Tina Sacks and Adrian Aguilera have been awarded new grants to support their respective research.

Dr. Sacks, whose research examines the Black middle class in relation to the structural determinants of health and vulnerabilities that persist...Read more about Professors Aguilera and Sacks Awarded New Grants

Graduating Berkeley Social Welfare major Natalie Ruiz (BA '17) has been named a recipient of the 2017 President's Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. Ruiz is one of two awardees to be selected by the Office of University of California President Janet Napolitano for this...Read more about Natalie Ruiz (BA '17) Named UC President's Awardee

In an op-ed for the Daily Californian, graduating social welfare major and 2017 Berkeley Social Welfare James Midgley Leadership Award recipient Adrián Alejandro Chávez shares his firsthand account of the challenges, resiliency and tremendous support of family and...Read more about Adrián Chávez Reflects on His Path to Graduation

Berkeley Social Welfare Lecturer Eveline Chang was honored on March 15 at the "RISE: Celebrating Women, Community love and Leadership" event, which strives to highlight "the endeavors and efforts of our women leaders, especially queer women and women of color, as well as appreciating, as a...Read more about Eveline Chang Honored with Campuswide Leader Award

Berkeley Social Welfare Professor Emerita and alumna Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and her husband Dr. James Gibbs have been featured in The New York Timesas part of the publication's "Committed: 165 Years of Love (and War) in The New York Times Wedding...Read more about NY Times profile: Professor Emerita Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

You’re living in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed—what the hell do you have to lose? —Donald J. Trump on the presidential campaign trail, August 2016

As of January 2017 it appears that, we, indeed, have everything to...Read more about Dr. Tina Sacks on Trump and Urban Poverty

Berkeley Social Welfare Field Consultants Christina Feliciana and Robert Ayasse were each honored at the 2016 Council Work on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta.

Feliciana received the Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Council on Social Work Education's Women's...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Field Faculty Garner CSWE Awards

Berkeley Social Welfare Professor Julian Chow has been named Outstanding American by Choice (ABC) by the federal government's US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Dr. Chow, whose research interests include community practice and service delivery in ethnic and immigrant...Read more about Professor Julian Chow Receives Immigration Services Award