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The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) will host its next seminar Wednesday, June 8, at noon via Zoom. In this seminar, titled “Evaluating Asthma Risk in Childhood to Plan Community-Engaged Interventions,” presenters will discuss a local initiative to develop a geographic…

Are you interested in regulatory compliance and risk management jobs in the healthcare or business finance industry? Compliance-related jobs are one of the hottest growth areas in the United States, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting an estimated 30,700 jobs opening for compliance…

Looking for a new summer read? Want to stock up your bookshelf? Head to the annual CWRU Book Sale today (June 6) and tomorrow (June 7) to pick up some new reading materials. The sale, which began over the weekend after two years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, features thousands of books, CDs,…

Nichole Cobb (CWR ’93; SAS ’95), a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently received the Methodology Workshop Scholarship award from the Center for Research on Families at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Cobb, who has founded the behavioral…

CNN: Ed Dabkowski, research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the police response in the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.   Watch the segment

This story originally ran in The Daily. Both James Hopper and Jonathan Powell (pictured left to right) readily admit their collegiate tennis prospects weren’t the strongest. “There were very few coaches who were truly interested in recruiting me,” said Hopper, now a rising senior majoring in…

Students in the Class of 2022 recently received awards for their excellence with the Milton and Charlotte Kramer Clinic, scholarly  publications and fellowships. Milton and Charlotte Kramer Clinic Awards Jack Cronquist Award Presented to Elle English and Thomas Messner for demonstrating…

Department of Justice to review police response to Uvalde school shooting CNN: Edward Dabkowski, research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the police response in the…

H.R. 8 mandates gun background checks. Why is it stuck in the Senate? How Stuff Works: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, noted that passing laws requiring universal background checks is "an important first step" toward reducing gun…

Uncertainties on future use of study participants’ data  Medical Ethics Advisor: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that patients may agree to donate a biosample—including blood, urine and saliva— for their physician’s clinical…