Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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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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May 22, 2015
Mark Singer
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 at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Social W...
May 22, 2015
David Biegel, the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice and co-director of the Center on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed to a six-person international committee to evaluate Israeli social work educa...
May 21, 2015
Megan Holmes
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have begun studying 1,700 children from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) database to understand how mothers and siblings can protect abused children who have witnessed family violence.
“I want to focus on the...
May 05, 2015
Gillian Marshall
Can neighborhood factors influence whether older residents have access to cancer screening information and testing?
Gillian Marshall, assistant professor of social work at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to ...
April 17, 2015
The Conversations in Philanthropy Spring Speaker Series at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences will conclude with discussion, titled “Philanthropy is a Big Tent: Making philanthropy part of your lifelong commitment,” on Tuesday, April 28, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in th...
April 10, 2015
Graduate and professional students at Case Western Reserve University are much more than just students. They’re researchers, teachers and leaders.
Through their efforts in their research, graduate and professional students make new breakthroughs in their fields. The organizations they lead improve ...
April 10, 2015
The Schubert Center for Child Studies and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development will host Merav Jedwab, postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland School of Social Work and of the Heruv Institute in Jerusalem, who will present "Decision-Making in Child Protective Services: Perspec...
March 27, 2015
Senior Imani Scruggs is a product of alchemy. No, not the medieval chemical science. Rather Alchemy Inc., a mentoring program for adolescent black males in Akron.
The program, founded by Scruggs’ father, Kwame, provides positive role models for young men and uses mythological storytelling in combin...
March 19, 2015
Undergraduate students are invited to meet with faculty, current students and alumni to learn more about career options in social work and nonprofit management and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' programs at an open house on Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 1...
March 17, 2015
Two alumni from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences will give a presentation, titled “From Program Operator to Program Officer: What practitioners bring to the world of philanthropy,” on Tuesday, March 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Mandel Community Studies Center, Room ...