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On June 20, Co-Deans JB Silvers and Andrew Medvedev, along with former Dean and Osborne Professorship Committee Chair Scott Cowen, hosted a special in-person celebration to officially welcome Professor Scot Lowry as the Richard L. Osborne Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship. Lowry, who along with...

Susan Sternad-Basel (MSSA '81) was the guest on Episode 2 of the Mandel School's podcast, Change Leaders. Sternad-Basel's career journey from social work to the armed forces is notable—she was the former deputy chief data officer of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency. She is currently th...

David Cooperrider, the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Weatherhead School of Management, penned an article with alumna Lindsey Godwin (GRS ’08, organizational behavior) that recently earned an accolade. Titled “Our Earthshot Moment: Net Positive OD for th...

Alumna Bethany Friel applies her social work experience to help manage affordable and mixed-income housing Bethany Friel (SAS ’11) still remembers the client who opened her eyes to the harsh realities of housing insecurity. As a social worker in her native Pittsburgh, Friel was working with a sing...

In this month's issue: News Upcoming Events CEU Opportunities Student Spotlights Alumni News Faculty News In Memoriam Employment and Career Opportunities Read the June 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter....

Trustee Aarti Chandna and her husband, Asheem, also co-chair the project’s fundraising campaign As a longtime social impact and angel investor, Aarti Chandna knows well what she needs to see before committing to support a project. "The way I look at it—any successful company has to be a place whe...

Several scholars at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently collaborated on a paper published in the journal Hindawi Autism Research and Treatment. Partially funded by the Mandel School’s Research and Training Development Grant Program (RTDG) and a Mt. Sinai Aw...

Alumna Darlene Grant became a Peace Corps volunteer at 49; 11 years later, she joined the agency’s top ranks. In seventh grade, with a bully on her heels, Darlene Grant slipped through a door at her Cleveland junior high school and found herself in the music room, staring at a line of students. Wa...

WKYC: Ric Kruszynski, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) in the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the state’s new $6 million grant to launch the Substance Use Center of Excellence at the university to help combat Ohio's growing opioid epid...

There is no average day for a foster care worker. Just ask Marquetese Betts (SAS ’15), a Case Western Reserve University adjunct professor at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, who has, for 24 years, been a part of the foster care system in Northeast Ohio. Betts ...