College of Health and Human Services

The UNC Charlotte School of Social Work graduate program has climbed into the top 25 percent nationally in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The Master of Social Work degree program moved up 12 spots on this year’s list, from 68 to 56; 234 schools offer graduate degrees in social work nationwide.

“Our jump in the rankings reflects social work faculty members’ reputations for high quality, nationally relevant scholarship and teaching,” said MSW program director Bob Herman-Smith.

UNC Charlotte athletic training clinical coordinator Bret Wood is a 2016 inductee into the North Carolina Athletic Trainers Association (NCATA) Hall of Fame.

The award honors an NCATA athletic trainer with at least 20 years of experience; nominations are by peers and evaluated by the association’s board of directors.

“There is a long list of nationally and internationally recognized athletic trainers in the N.C. Hall of Fame,” Wood said. “It was quite an honor to be considered a part of that group. It was certainly a welcome surprise.”

A pair of UNC Charlotte social work master’s students recently unveiled a plan to help provide mental health services to Charlotte’s underserved Latino population.

Graduate students Laura Pierce and Cameron Rifkin presented the plan at the UNC Social Entrepreneurship Conference after being selected as UNC Charlotte’s participants.

Schnavia Hatcher is the inaugural director of the School of Social Work in the College of Health and Human Services.

Hatcher will begin her position with the University in early August. She will join UNC Charlotte from the University of Texas at Arlington, where she serves as a tenured professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Center for African American Studies.

“Nature or nurture” has been a question of interest for developmental researchers, but a recent UNC Charlotte workshop is showing that the inquiry is more complicated. In fact, the way infants are nurtured can affect the physical nature of their brain for the rest of their lives.

The College of Health and Human Services is bridging the gap between research and community outreach. In this video, learn how the college conducted a workshop for more than 60 area seniors to promote healthy aging.

A daylong conference will bring top experts to UNC Charlotte’s campus to discuss strategies to serve veterans transitioning from active military to civilian lives.

“Military Culture: Have You Ever Served?” is free and open to the public and will be held Tuesday, March 1, at the UNC Charlotte Student Union.

National and state experts, students, faculty, service providers and members of the general public will join in a dialogue on military culture and the need to join forces to support veterans.

The UNC Charlotte School of Nursing’s national profile received a significant boost this month with the online graduate program’s 33-spot ascendance in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The program jumped to 54 in the national rankings, up from 87 last year. Department Chair Dee Baldwin attributed the improvement to multiple factors, including:

The UNC Charlotte Public Health program has received full seven-year reaccreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

The program consists of the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree options in the Department of Public Health Sciences.

A bigger, better Belk Gym was on display Monday as campus leaders, students, faculty and staff celebrated the re-opening of a facility built in 1970.