School of Social Work

Ph.D. student Lisa Borntrager’s 1st-place award highlights 12 social work students’ research presentations

First-year Ph.D. student Lisa Borntrager‘s poster presentation was awarded first place in the Social Sciences, Business and Education category of VCU’s Graduate Research Symposium in April – one of 12 VCU School of Social Work students who participated in student research events across two days. Borntrager’s presentation was titled “Does Trauma Type Matter When Evaluating […]

‘Faculty that looked like me’: Meet the 2024-25 social work Ph.D. cohort

The VCU School of Social Work’s Ph.D. Program welcomed five new students in this academic year’s cohort. They are: Why did you choose to pursue a Ph.D. and why was the VCU School of Social Work your choice? Lisa BorntragerI want the skills to be able to conduct my own research toward suicide prevention and policy work. […]

Social work faculty, students, alumni presenting at SSWR 2025

More than 50 VCU School of Social Work faculty, students and alumni have had presentations accepted or are serving in other roles with sessions such as special interest groups, roundtables or symposia at the Society for Social Work and Research 2025 conference in Seattle, Jan. 15-19, 2025. In total there are 69 presentations or sessions involving […]