Engineering Student Spotlight

Class Year: 2023 Degree Program: Master of Social Work Concentration: Mental Health with Adults + Community Practice for Social Change Jessica Murgel left behind a city she loved and a full-time development and communications job to attend Case Western Reserve University. She had been working for...

Transgender and gender diverse (TGGD) populations experience more health disparities than the general lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) and the general cis-gender heterosexual population. A new study conducted by doctoral student Braveheart Gillani provides data regarding the statistically significan...

Class Year: May 2024 Degree Program: MSW Concentration: Health Hometown: Northbrook, Illinois Field Education Organization: Center for Dialysis Care in Shaker Heights, Ohio Before beginning at Case Western Reserve University, what were you doing? I was earning my undergraduate degree at the Un...

Fei Wang, a doctoral student, was awarded a fellowship with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) in the Diversity, Racial Equity, and Inclusion Program at the University of Chicago. She is one of five scholars selected this year. NORC provides her with funding ($7,500), training and mentorsh...

PhD student Liat Johnson is one of only four doctoral students chosen nationally to receive a fellowship through the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The purpose of the program “is to reduce health disparities and improve healthcare outcomes of rac...

Research by Tyrone Hamler, a PhD student, was recently published in The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, a top-ranked journal in gerontology. This study contributed to the emerging body of literature on skin tone, discrimination and mental health. Uncovering mechanisms behind the “why” is ...

Class Year: 2023 Degree Program: Master of Social Work/Master of Public Health After building her research skills as an international investigator at a pre-employment background screening firm, Theresa Aldrich was seeking a Master of Social Work (MSW) and a Master of Public Health (MPH) program to...

August is National Black Business Month, a time that celebrates and promotes the support of Black-owned businesses in the United States. In honor of this month, The Daily sat down with several Case Western Reserve University students, alumni, faculty and staff members who double as business owners a...

WEWS: Tara Daniel (MSW '22) recent graduate of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Leila Bushweller, first-year student at the School of Medicine, shared their experiences in creating the "What I Was Wearing" exhibit at the Ashtabula County District Library to p...

Nichole Cobb (CWR ’93; SAS ’95), a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently received the Methodology Workshop Scholarship award from the Center for Research on Families at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Cobb, who has founded the behavioral h...