Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
At Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, equity, innovation and transformation are more than just values—they’re deeply embedded in all of the research and work we do, and the news we make. Stay up to date on how students, faculty, staff and alumni at the Mandel School are tackling mental health challenges, addressing inequalities, leading community transformation and more.
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First Year Cleveland awarded $1.8M to address infant mortality crisis in Cuyahoga County
Case Western Reserve-based organization will coordinate investment to strengthen family support systems
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April 05, 2019
Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare and deputy director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-wrote an article for Patch titled “Migrant Children, Our Children.” The piece discusses the U.S. government’s treatment of migrants,…
April 01, 2019
Local InterNational Konnection (LINK), a student group at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will host a lecture by Elisabeta Zelinka, a professor from the social work program at the West University of Timisoara, Romania. Zelinka will present “Social Work and…
March 25, 2019
Four social-work faculty
members from Case Western Reserve University were named among the top 100
social workers in the nation by Taylor & Francis, an international academic
publishing company. The names of those employed by the 76 members of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral…
March 22, 2019
David S. Crampton Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish recently
announced the appointment of 10 individuals to serve on the county’s Division
of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Advisory Board. Among them is David S.
Crampton, associate professor of social work at the Jack, Joseph and…
March 19, 2019
Ruby B. Pernell, in a 1981 photo from CWRU Archives. Appointed acting dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences in 1973-74 (now the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel of Applied Social Sciences), Ruby B. Pernell was the first African-American woman dean at Case Western Reserve University. She came…
March 18, 2019
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social
Sciences’ offices of International Education Programs and International Affairs
are hosting an International Resource Marketplace on Tuesday, March 19, at the
Mandel School Noble Commons from noon to 2 p.m. This event is intended to…
March 15, 2019
Four Case Western Reserve University researchers wrote a paper on their work on cigarillo use among young people. The paper, titled “A comparison of methods to measure daily cigarillo consumption among adolescents and young adults,” was published in Tobacco Control. The four researchers…
March 11, 2019
Just months before the first students arrive at the Health Education Campus (HEC) of Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic, the university’s largest school received welcome news from U.S. News & World Report. It stands as the nation’s 24th-ranked research
medical school this year, one…
March 01, 2019
Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Senior Research Associate Rachel Lovell and Research Assistant Joanna Klingenstein, and Liuhong Yang, a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, recently had an article published titled “Testing…
February 28, 2019
Join the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied
Social Sciences for its 2019 Spring Open House Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. During the open house, attendees will learn about the school’s top-ranked social work and nonprofit master's programs, and have access to faculty,…