Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Global News Radio (Canada): Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the differences between gun crimes in Canada and the United States. “We are using the wrong comparison,” he said. “The U.S. is a huge outlier in the number of its homici...

Amy Khare, research director for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, penned a piece titled “Advancing Racial Equity within Federal Housing Policy.” Khare’s article appeared in Cityscape, which is published by t...

Assistant Professor Ann Nguyen had her National Institute on Aging (NIA) Scientific Meeting Grants (R13) application, on which she is a co-investigator, selected for funding. Scientific Meeting Grants support national or international meetings, conferences and workshops. NIA accepts applications for...

Disparities reported in use of cardioprotective drugs in type 2 diabetes Healio: Sadeer Al-Kindi, associate professor at the School of Medicine, and his colleagues discussed new data that shows among adults with type 2 diabetes, white men and white women and those seeing an endocrinologist receive ...

Assistant Professor Jessica Wojtalik was selected to receive a Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The title of her project is "Confirming the Neuroprotective Effect of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy on Fronto-Temporal Gray Matter Loss in Early Cour...

Mirna Martinez (SAS ’20) recently sat down for an interview with CALÓ News about her path to becoming a queer Oaxacan, first-generation American, bilingual therapist at EMDR and Trauma Therapy Center in Burbank, CA. Martinez is also a director for Case Western Reserve University's Latinx Alumni As...

WEWS: Jennifer King, assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, discussed her "Take A Break" micropractice deck, a pocket-size deck of 28 cards—based on the brain science of stress and healing—to soothe, settle or energize the body and mind. Read the article...

In this issue: Save the Date Upcoming CEU Opportunities Upcoming Alumni Events School News Media Mentions and Publications Alumni News Employment and Career Development Opportunities Read the July 2022 Inside the Action Newsletter...

When James Anderson arrived in Cleveland in the 1960s after completing his PhD at Oregon State University, he intended to continue his academic career in chemical research at Case Institute of Technology. But just a few years later, his penchant for biomedicine inspired him to get involved in biomed...

Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the necessity of developing an action plan to eradicate gun violence in an article published in Keeping Students Safe and Helping Them Thrive, an edu...