Engineering Student Spotlight

Class Year: May 2023 Degree Program: MSW Concentration: Aging Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH Field Education Organization: Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, OH Describe your field education practicum experience and any work/projects you have done. ...

Braveheart Gillani, a PhD student at the Mandel School, and Kristen Kirchgesler, web services librarian at the Lillian and Milford Harris Library, recently penned an article titled “Sites of Possibilities: A Scoping Review to Investigate the Mentorship of Marginalized Social Work Doctoral Students.”...

Class Year: May 2023 Degree Program: MSW Concentration: Community Practice for Social Change Hometown: China Field Education Organization: Neighborhood Connections in Cleveland, OH Before beginning at Case Western Reserve University, what were you doing? I was a sociology student focused on th...

When it comes to having a global perspective, Sebastian Saintignon is well versed. His father’s career led Saintignon’s family to live in such varied places as Arizona, Mexico, the Kingdom of Bahrain and California during his childhood, leading him to learn how to be open-minded and comfortable in n...

Jaylin Crumb is nearing the completion of her Master of Social Work degree from Case Western Reserve University—but she’s never stepped foot on campus. In fact, she’s never even been to Cleveland. On track to graduate in August from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Scien...

Mandel School doctoral student Braveheart Gillani and Peter Hovmand, the Pamela B. Davis Professor of Medicine, co-authored an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Their article is titled “Ageing among Black and non-Hispanic White older adults: A community-based system dyna...

Emmanuelle Iskandar completed her bachelor’s degree in food engineering in Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020—the day after the devastating port explosion in Beirut. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis the explosion had caused, it was challenging for freshly graduated students like Iskandar t...

Class Year: 2024 Degree Program: Dual Degree Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health Concentrations: Community Practice for Social Change (MSW) and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (MPH) When Erika Kura started volunteering at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, she was already a b...

Last month, Wenxing Wei and Sarah Balser, two doctoral students at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Sciences, were recognized for their systematic review paper, “A Systematic Review: Risk and Protective Factors of Elder Abuse for Community-Dwelling Racial Minorities.” Originall...

Inspired by his early experiences working in a medical lab, Franco Kraiselburd founded Asclepii, a startup focused on improving wound care with stem cells. Kraiselburd, a junior biomedical engineering student from Argentina, recently learned more about entrepreneurship at CES as a Veale Snyder Fell...