Archive for September 2025

The Diana R. Garland School of Social Work received backlash following the revocation of a grant researching inclusion and the LGBTQ community.

After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement, the Wilmington City Council moved forward with an anti-camping ordinance though council members’ changes from the last meeting prompted the ordinance’s implementation to again be delayed another week. However, the council did agree to start up a new program to embed social workers within the city’s police department.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.

When I look back on the final months of my Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Edinburgh, I remember a strange duality: the thrill of intellectual accomplishment and the gnawing dread of what would come next.

Men most at risk of dying from drugs, alcohol or suicide in Scotland are a “policy blind spot”, according to health economics researchers.

“AI is no longer a distant horizon – it is here, transforming daily life, the information space, and the global economy at breathtaking speed,” Mr. Guterres said at the Council’s high-level debate on the technology’s security implications for transforming warfare. “The question is not whether AI will influence international peace and security, but how we will shape that influence.”

“Unlike older people, young people are often forced to spend extended periods of time around others they don’t get along with,” says Dr Ben Lohmeyer (above) from the Flinders University College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. “So rather than loneliness being about isolation, in this case it can be about being surrounded by people who make you feel unsafe.”