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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,...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...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...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...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 Times as part of the publication's "Committed: 165 Years of Love (and War) in The New York Times...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...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...Read more about Professor Julian Chow Receives Immigration Services Award

The family story about my great-uncle, Milton Chernin, went something like this: In 1925, when he was accepted at Columbia University, Milton was so young that his mother was going to send him to college in short pants. She was a relative newcomer to America and operating under...Read more about California Magazine Editor Wendy Miller Profiles her Great-Uncle and Longtime School of Social Welfare Dean Milton Chernin

The family story about my great-uncle, Milton Chernin, went something like this: In 1925, when he was accepted at Columbia University, Milton was so young that his mother was going to send him to college in short pants. She was a relative newcomer to America and operating under...Read more about California Magazine Editor Wendy Miller Profiles her Great-Uncle and Longtime School of Social Welfare Dean Milton Chernin

Berkeley Social Welfare has engaged in a series of presentations aiming to examine the “Grand Challenges in Social Work.”

Initiated by Dean Jeffrey Edleson...Read more about Grand Challenges in Social Work

In a recent post to the campus' Berkeley Blog, School of Social Welfare Dean Jeffrey Edleson writes, "While [former Berkeley Law Dean Choudhry] claimed no bad intent, the impact of his behavior severely disrupted the career of a capable woman.

As my students tell me, a...Read more about Dean Jeffrey Edleson Reflects on Faculty Sexual Misconduct

In the East Bay Express' "When Stories Hurt," article author Lacy Roberts notes that "several findings have reported that between 40 percent and 80 percent of helping professionals have experienced vicarious trauma, secondary trauma or compassion fatigue."

Berkeley Social...Read more about Greg Merrill on Vicarious Trauma among Helping Professionals

Berkeley Social Welfare Professor and Associate Dean of Research Jennifer Skeem's newly published article, "Psychosis uncommonly and inconsistently precedes violence among high-risk individuals," co-authored with Patrick Kennealy (University of South Florida), John Monahan (...Read more about Dr. Skeem-Led Study Shows Psychosis Rarely Precedes Violence

Read Berkeley Social Welfare Assistant Professor Tina K. Sacks' MSNBC article, "How Big Data failed Baltimore," in which she reflects on her time as a federal public health employee...Read more about Dr. Tina Sacks on "How Big Data failed Baltimore"

Susan Edwards, along with Brian Quigley, who heads the Engineering and Physical Sciences Division of the campus libraries, have been named the recipients of the Distinguished Librarian Award. The honor is given biennially to up to two librarians recognized for their excellence by a...Read more about Susan Edwards Named 2016 Distinguished Librarian