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UA Social Work Professor Receives Fulbright Award

Dr. Ellen Csikai, associate professor of social work at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Debrecen in Hungary during the 2007-08 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Alabama/Mississippi Social Work Education Conference Focuses on Responses to Hurricane Katrina

“Resiliency, Rebuilding, Recovery” will be the focus of this year’s Alabama/Mississippi Social Work Education Conference, Oct. 19-20 at The University of Alabama. The program will include several presentations on social work’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Social Work Students at UA Work to Fight Poverty

Through a thoughtful class assignment, social work students at The University of Alabama recently worked together to improve the quality of life for families in developing countries.

UA Student Wins National Social Work Award for Service to Community

LaTonya Washington of Moundville, a junior majoring in social work at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded the 2006 Student Recognition Award by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration for her outstanding service to social work practice.

UA Hosts Annual Social Work Meeting Sept. 16-17

The University of Alabama will host the 2005 annual meeting of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16-17.

UA Social Work Lecture to Focus on Baby Boomers’ Impact on Federal Budget

Dr. Bruce S. Jansson, professor of social policy at the University of Southern California and noted historian of the U.S. federal budget process, will present “From Boomers to Bust? Some Implications of Boomers’ Rising Costs for American Society in Coming Decades,” Monday, March 14 at noon in 104 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

Social Work Colloquium at UA to Feature Trustee Emeritus Cleo Thomas Feb. 18

Cleo Thomas Jr., trustee emeritus for the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, will be the featured speaker for the University of Alabama School of Social Work’s 17th Annual African-American Heritage Month Program Friday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. in 223 Little Hall on the UA campus.

Families will be Focus of Third Annual UA Social Work Conference Aug. 26, 27

The University of Alabama School of Social Work will hold its third annual Fall Social Work Conference Aug. 26 and 27 at the Paul W. Bryant Conference Center on the UA campus.

Mobile Resident Inducted into Alabama Social Work Hall of Fame

Erin Wheeler of Mobile was recently inducted into the Alabama Social Work Hall of Fame. Wheeler, retired director for the Mobile County Department of Human Resources, was inducted for the area of practice/administration.

Child Welfare Focus of UA Social Work Conference Set for Sept. 18-19

The University of Alabama School of Social Work will hold its second Fall Social Work Conference Sept. 18 and 19 at the Paul W. Bryant Conference Center on the UA campus.