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Dear Social Welfare Community,

Dear Social Welfare Community,

By now, much has been written about the Serena Williams-Naomi Osaka-Carlos Ramos fiasco at the 2018 US Open.

In acknowledgment of a recent board appointment, Assistant Professor Tina Sacksis the new chair at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues’ Center for Resea

In recognition of exemplary research that focuses on psychosocial problems within the Chicano and Latino communities, Professor Kurt Organista has been selected for the Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellowship. This Fellowship provides seed funding to create new knowledge that h

Dear Social Welfare Community,

Berkeley is ranked #2 in the country in a new study examining the impact of faculty scholarship among 1,699 faculty at all 76 social work doctoral programs in the United States (Smith, Jacobs, Osteen & Carter, 2018). The study examined cumulative h-indexes of faculty at each school. The h-index is a metric that measures the number of articles published by a faculty member and how frequently others have cited their articles. The authors created averages for each school’s faculty.

Berkeley Social Welfare mourns the loss and celebrates the life of former Oakland mayor, Social Welfare alum and beloved congressional firebrand Ron Dellums (MSW '62).

Three of the six recipients of UC Berkeley's 2018 Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship are graduating MSW students.

Karina Sweitzer, Erica West and Iris Lin (pictured left to right) were honored earlier this week by the Berkeley Graduate Division.

Berkeley Social Welfare has graduated 12,000 social work leaders and practitioners and is the scholarly home of distinguished faculty who produce awardwinning research and provide training in support of the profession. The School, however, had yet to directly staff a social worker dedicated to helping meet the needs of members of the Berkeley community — until now.

When Steven Czifra (MSW ’20) arrived on the Berkeley campus, his humble intent was to earn his BA in English — a goal he met in 2015 — and continue on to a doctoral program in the same field. “My whole plan,” he says, “was to get through here without being noticed.”

On January 22, Berkeley Social Welfare’s newly established Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE)honored its first cohort of 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).

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).

Read PhD student Katie Savin's eloquent 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.

The campus has embarked on a series of Free Speech seminars to discuss both the benefits and limits of speech in our society. The most recent to be announced is a panel discussion next week titled “Beyond the First: Healing and Harmful Speech,” which will focus on the impact of hate speech on our community.

At the height of the Napa and Sonoma Country wildfires, Berkeley Social Welfare major and Marine Corps veteran Matthew Smith (BA '18) spearheaded efforts to assist victims devastated by the ongoing blaze.

Smith, who is also president of the student group Cal Veterans, mobilized colleagues throughout the campus with "military experience or training in public health" to take care of critical needs in Santa Rosa's Veterans Memorial Building, which served as a shelter for evacuees.