Year: 2023
Part-Time MSW Program Student Spotlight: Mahalia Sobhani
The Part-Time MSW Program allows students who are not able to pursue full-time study to work towards a master’s degree on a structured, time-extended basis with classes delivered in a hybrid manner. Some courses are …
Article Proposing Solutions to Reduce Child Protective Services Involvement and Disparities Deemed “Best” of Previous Year by “Social Service Review”
Assistant Professor Jessica Pac and colleagues, including Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Lonnie Berger, received the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for their paper “The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement.” Along with Sophie Collyer, Kirk O’Brien, Elizabeth Parker, Peter …
Study Explores Impact of Cash Transfers on Contraception Use and Satisfaction for Mothers with Low Incomes
Leslie Ann Howard, MSSW ’79, Our 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
We are pleased to announce that the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work’s Board of Visitors has named Leslie Ann Howard as our 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Leslie was President and CEO of the …
Michael Moody, MSW ‘19, a “Catalyst for Change”
After working in the restaurant industry for more than 20 years, Michael Moody returned to UW-Madison to complete his undergraduate degree. By chance, he took Social Work Professor Marah Curtis’s class on social policy, and, …
Announcing the Anne Wackman Oros Professorship in Social Work
The Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work is proud to announce the creation of our first-ever named professorship. Starting in fall 2024, Dr. Tova Walsh will become the Anne Wackman Oros Associate Professor of Social …
Sandra McCormick, MSSW ’72, A Career Focused on International Work
For most of her career, Sandra McCormick developed programs to improve the health, human services, and quality of life for many citizens of Russia, the Ukraine, and numerous other countries. While serving in a leadership …
Part-Time MSW Program Student Spotlight: Teddy Bah Montiel
The Part-Time MSW Program allows students who are not able to pursue full-time study to work towards a master’s degree on a structured, time-extended basis with classes delivered in a hybrid manner. Some courses are …
New Study Sheds Light on the Impact of the 2021 Child Tax Credit
New research by two social work faculty demonstrates that 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion did not have a major negative impact on the employment rate of caregivers who were eligible to receive the benefit. …