School of Social Work

  1. December 9, 2024

    Arts Initiative grants to foster creativity and collaboration

    The Arts Initiative has announced its Arts Initiative Project Support grants for fall 2024, funding six innovative projects across the university.

  2. November 21, 2024

    Race guides location of Detroit-area financial institutions

    The placement of banks, credit unions and alternative financial services is influenced by changes in a neighborhoods’ racial composition,, according to a new U-M study.

  3. November 13, 2024

    Neubacher Award recipient fights for disabled on and off campus

    Ayesha Ghazi Edwin, assistant clinical professor in the School of Social Work, received the 2024 James T. Neubacher Award in recognition of her commitment to advocating for social justice and policy change for the disabled.

  4. September 27, 2024

    Kristin Seefeldt named acting director of Poverty Solutions

    Kristin Seefeldt has been named acting faculty director of Poverty Solutions at U‑M through June 2025 while inaugural faculty director Luke Shaefer is on sabbatical.

  5. February 2, 2024

    School of Social Work to host featured artist residency

    The School of Social Work, in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative, has announced the selection of the Pan-African Creative Exchange as the featured artist residency for 2024.

  6. October 30, 2023

    First Zumba class transformed social worker

    Camille Craine, a clinical social worker in the adult inpatient psychiatry unit at University Hospital, has served as an instructor each year for the Zumba at the Big House event in the fall.

  7. October 9, 2023

    Grant offers virtual job-interview training to students with autism

    A new $3.16 million grant awarded to U-M by the National Institutes of Health will be used to offer virtual job interview training to teenagers and young adults with autism.

  8. September 21, 2023

    Regents Roundup — September 2023

    Other items approved by the Board of Regents at its Sept. 21 meeting.

  9. September 18, 2023

    Obituary — Rose Campbell Gibson

    Rose Campbell Gibson, a research scientist and gerontologist who served on the faculty of the School of Social Work, died Aug. 11 after a brief illness. She was 98.

  10. August 18, 2023

    President’s award winners focus on global health, student travel

    Jody Lori of the School of Nursing and Katie Lopez of the School of Social Work are this year’s recipients of the President’s Award for Distinguished Service in International Education.