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Associate Professor Jaclynn Hawkins and her team have received a $1.83 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCO

Professor Katie Edwards was featured in the Inside Higher Ed story, “How 2025 Changed Research.” Edwards had a tumultuous year in which funding for many of

Dean Beth Angell has been elected vice president-elect of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Angell’s term begins on February 1. In her new role as vice-president elect, she’ll serve a one-year term assisting the vice president.

Associate Professors Lindsay Bornheimer and Odessa Gonzalez Benson, and Professor Matthew Smith have been named Fellows of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR).

Assistant Professor Nari Yoo has received the 2026 Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Outstanding Social Work Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Unraveling Ethnic Disparities: Spatial and Virtual Access to Mental Health Services among Immigrants with Language Ba

Associate Professor Shanna Kattari has been named a recipient of the 2026 Sarah Goddard Power Award from U-M’s CEW+.

MSW Student Sevi Fua is featured on the Peace Corps website. He is currently serving in Togo, where he volunteers in a health clinic.

Professor William Elliott III discussed children’s savings accounts — including the new Trump Accounts — with the

MSW student Sophie Guymon called upon Michigan Medicine to reinstate a full spectrum of gender-affirming care for youth in a Michigan Daily editorial.&nbsp

On March 12, 2025, Professor Katie Edwards received a letter that one of her research grants was being terminated by the National Institute of Health (NIH). “I will never, ever, forget that day,” said Edwards.