April 3, 2013
Biren “Ratnesh” Nagda coauthors book on communicating across differences for social change
How can we help diverse students learn from each other and gain the skills they need to succeed in an increasingly multi-cultural and socially-stratified landscape? That’s the urgent question...
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January 16, 2013
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large explores prevention with Richard Catalano
Richard Catalano has a storehouse of solutions for problems that beset adolescents and follow them in to adulthood — academic failure, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, violence, says Large in...
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March 21, 2012
Taryn Lindhorst and Gunnar Almgren publish authoritative text on U.S. safety-net health care
In their new book, Health Care at the Margins, professors Gunnar Almgren and Taryn Lindhorst provide critical, much-needed insight into the safety-net system and how the recession, unemployment and...
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November 7, 2011
Telephone support for soldiers struggling with substance use
The caller tells his UW counselor that he consumes 8 to 12 alcoholic drinks every night. He needs them to relax after work he says, even though he has a wife and two children who need his attention.
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October 3, 2011
Karl Hill to lead $5.2 million study on factors contributing to drug dependence and related problems
School of Social Work Research Associate Professor Karl G. Hill will direct a newly funded $5.2 million, five-year study on the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in the development of...
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