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Class Year: 2022 Program Major: Master of Social Work (MSW) with a Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practice Katherine “Rinn'' Ramcke had yet to earn her bachelor’s degree when she began graduate study at the Jack, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. As an undergraduat...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact (DSSI). The certificate: Is intended to prepare students to navigate and ...

Initiated by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Grand Challenges for Social Work is a groundbreaking initiative to champion social progress powered by science. It is a call to action for all social workers to work together to tackle our nation’s toughest social problems. Th...

More than 100 students at Case Western Reserve University—most of them social workers in training—will learn how to help meet a growing need in communities starved for behavioral health workers, thanks to a new $1.9 million federal grant to the university’s interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Workfo...

Nancy Rolock, the Henry L. Zucker Associate Professor in Social Work Practice and Associate Dean for Research and Training, presented at the virtual International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR7) July 6–9, hosted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy. She will also be presenti...

Class Year: January 2022 Program/Major: Master of Nonprofit Organizations Fourth-year student Ibrahim Bazyan has been making an impact in his community as a volunteer for several organizations while also earning his bachelor's and master's degrees through the Mandel School’s 3+1 Nonprofit Managem...

When Grover “Cleve” Gilmore agreed to lead the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences in 2002, his appointment was intended to last only a year. Now, after a 20-year tenure as dean of the highly ranked social work school, he will retire June 30. Gilmore’s leadership has pr...

When Grover “Cleve” Gilmore retires June 30 as dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences after nearly two decades in the role, another longtime Mandel School leader will helm the school on an interim basis. Sharon E. Milligan, associate dean for academic affairs a...

Year: PhD Candidate Major: Social Welfare Emily Miller, a Case Western Reserve University PhD candidate in social welfare, believes many systems in the United States are ineffective at addressing root causes of social issues. Miller wants to change that—and she’s well on her way. Her work on a rep...

As Case Western Reserve charts the waters of its new reality, the North Star and Pathways of the Think Big strategic plan continue to guide the university. The university’s North Star states: Case Western Reserve is a high-impact research university that aspires to be a community where humanity, sci...