Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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January 24, 2024
Joseph Paul Knable is a master of multiple realms—currently pursuing his fourth graduate degree at the Mandel School, he is also an adept videographer and a medically retired U.S. Air Force officer. Read on to learn his story. Answers have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Class…
January 22, 2024
Funds to reduce financial burden for master’s degree students The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising…
January 22, 2024
Funds to reduce financial burden for master’s degree students at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
January 19, 2024
Three researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently contributed to the new book Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future, edited by Laura Abrams, et al. and…
January 19, 2024
Three researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently contributed to the new book Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future, edited by Laura Abrams, et al. and…
January 18, 2024
WEWS: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education, discussed the grim statistics of children and teenagers killed by gun violence. “I think we’re beyond a blip,” he said. “I think it’s a trend. I think what’s different today is this feeling that gun…
January 16, 2024
The St. Louis American: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed his new research that found a link between religiosity and favorable behavioral outcomes. Staying linked with strong social support networks, in other words, serves as a…
January 12, 2024
Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, has been elected a 2024 Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). SSWR Fellows are members of the Society who have served with distinction to advance, disseminate and translate research that addresses…
January 12, 2024
Jeesoo Jeon, a doctoral candidate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was recently honored for her abstract at the Global Flourishing Conference. Scoring among the top 10 submissions, her abstract was titled “Household Challenges and Child flourishing:…
January 12, 2024
The Group of Advancement for Doctoral Education (GADE) recently awarded Laura Voith, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the 2024 Donna Harrington Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring of Doctoral Students. Established in 2017, this…