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Mandel School’s Amy Khare writes about racial equity in housing
Amy Khare, research assistant professor and research director for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, penned a piece titled “Advancing Racial Equity within Federal Housing Policy.” Khare’s article appeared in Cityscape, which is published by the Office of Policy Development and Res...
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Ann Nguyen's R13 application selected for funding
Assistant Professor Ann Nguyen had her National Institute on Aging (NIA) Scientific Meeting Grants (R13) application, on which she is a co-investigator, selected for funding. Scientific Meeting Grants support national or international meetings, conferences and workshops. NIA accepts applications for...
Jessica Wojtalik selected for a NIMH Loan Repayment Program award
Assistant Professor Jessica Wojtalik was selected to receive a Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The title of her project is "Confirming the Neuroprotective Effect of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy on Fronto-Temporal Gray Matter Loss in Early Cour...
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Alumni Spotlight: Mirna Martinez
Mirna Martinez (SAS ’20) recently sat down for an interview with CALÓ News about her path to becoming a queer Oaxacan, first-generation American, bilingual therapist at EMDR and Trauma Therapy Center in Burbank, CA. Martinez is also a director for Case Western Reserve University's Latinx Alumni As...
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CWRU social work professor creates 'Take a Break' playing card deck to reduce stress
WEWS: Jennifer King, assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, discussed her "Take A Break" micropractice deck, a pocket-size deck of 28 cards—based on the brain science of stress and healing—to soothe, settle or energize the body and mind. Read the article...
Dan Flannery talks about the 'forgotten mass shooting' with the "Los Angeles Times"
Los Angeles Times: Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, said sustained help is essential to victims and their families in the months and years following mass shootings. “It’s the attention [shoot...
Mark Joseph offers insights on urban development in the "Journal of Urban Affairs"
Drawing on the theoretical and empirical context of poverty deconcentration efforts in the United States, Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development and founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, wrote an article presenting a conc...
Dan Flannery writes about developing effective gun violence prevention plans
Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the necessity of developing an action plan to eradicate gun violence in an article published in Keeping Students Safe and Helping Them Thrive, an edu...
Begun Center’s Daniel Flannery writes about Ohio’s juvenile justice system
Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-wrote an op-ed regarding policies he said have failed and undermined Ohio’s juvenile justice system, making communities less safe. Titled “Mandatory bindov...
Highland Park shooting: Suspect considered second attack
BBC News: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed how “red flag” laws can be an effective way of preventing would-be mass shooters from large-scale attacks. “These are people who were either troubled, emotionally dysregulated or express...