Alexa Smith-Osborne

Alexa Smith-Osborne (Col ’73) has been elected a fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research and promoted to full professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she has been a faculty member and research scholar since 2006. Since 2012, she has directed the university’s Center for Clinical Social Work, a translational research hub for the development of resilience and recovery theory and intervention.​ She earned her doctorate in social work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 2006. She is now researching the use of biomarkers and brain imaging in advanced social work assessment and in behavioral-assistive technology interface to advance neurocognitive performance, to support resilience in children and the elderly.