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After serving nearly four years on the Weatherhead Alumni Advisory Council, Jeff Rockwood was elected to the position of president in June. Based on his professional career track, he is the right person for the job and at the right time for Weatherhead. Rockwood's career path can be described as…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…