Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Spring/Summer Book Roundup What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities (San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank), was edited by Mark Joseph, PhD, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development and founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income ...

New research finds a signaling pathway involving neurons responsible for how we understand thermal pain The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exa...

WEWS: Tara Daniel (MSW '22) recent graduate of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Leila Bushweller, first-year student at the School of Medicine, shared their experiences in creating the "What I Was Wearing" exhibit at the Ashtabula County District Library to p...

Research from Rob Fischer and Meghan Salas Atwell, faculty members at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was cited in a blog post on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website in April 2022. Fischer and Atwell, who serve as co-director and associate director of t...

Retiring after nearly 45 years on the Mandel School faculty and almost 35 leading the Poverty Center, Claudia Coulton’s career has centered on using data to make community change When Claudia Coulton (GRS ’78, social welfare), delivered a major presentation on the potential impacts of welfare refor...

Research from Rob Fischer and Meghan Salas Atwell, faculty members at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was cited in a blog post on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website in April 2022. Fischer and Atwell, who serve as co-director and associate director of t...

CBC: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the correlation between gun access and gun homicides. “In societies where there are more gun control laws—such as waiting periods and limited access to military-style weapons—we see lower rate...

Case Western Reserve law faculty member chronicles history, hope, kindness in her opera, The Sparks Fly Upward, premiering in Cleveland June 9 Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She’s also the librettist and composer of the opera The Sparks ...

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...

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 h...