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Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a…
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February 06, 2020
The federal government recently passed a bill making it a felony to torture, abuse and/or neglect animals. Violating the law carries up to a seven-year prison sentence.
But what defines “abuse and neglect” is now up for debate.
A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University examines...
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February 06, 2020
New Case Western Reserve University study suggests improved guidelines, awareness for protection of animals
The federal government
recently passed a bill making it a felony to torture, abuse and/or neglect
animals. Violating the law carries up to a seven-year prison sentence.
But what defines “abu...
January 29, 2020
A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University analyzed five years’ worth of eviction data from the Cleveland Housing Court and spent several weeks in court interviewing those who were evicted.
They found that the threat of homelessness is just one of the worries for those losing their ...
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January 27, 2020
Case Western Reserve University researchers tracked eviction in City of Cleveland, with troubling results
A team of researchers from Case
Western Reserve University analyzed five years’ worth of eviction data from the
Cleveland Housing Court and spent several weeks in court interviewing those who
w...
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January 22, 2020
Congratulations to first-year law students Sierra Lipscomb and Makela Hayford for a fantastic finish at the 1L Law Student Diversity Case Competition hosted by the University of Cincinnati College of Law and Keating Muething & Klekamp.
Lipscomb and Hayford placed third out of 18 teams from eight tr...
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January 20, 2020
Professor Max Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently co-authored an article in the Pathogens and Immunity journal with Dr. Michael Lederman, titled, “Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do.”
The article examines potential legal remedies to co...
January 15, 2020
David E. Biegel, PhD, the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice at the Mandel School, has received the 2020 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR).
Presented by one of the premier social work associations, this award recognizes outsta...
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January 13, 2020
Join the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School Applied Social Sciences’ International Education Programs to learn about three-credit study abroad courses to Mexico, Poland and the Netherlands for spring 2020. The session will be held Jan. 14 at 1 p.m. in the Mandel School, Room 238. Students will be...
January 06, 2020
Warning: This article contains specific information related to sexual assaults and rapes in the Cleveland area.
Larry McGowan is a sexual-assault offender, identified through the DNA testing of thousands of rape kits in Cleveland. He’s been linked to raping six women—killing one of them—during a 1...
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January 06, 2020
Rape-kit testing shows that rapists also commit other serious, invasive crimes, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University
Larry McGowan is a sexual-assault offender, identified through the DNA testing of thousands of rape kits in Cleveland. He’s been linked to raping six women—...