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MSASS 2025 Alumni Award Winners (From left: Donovan Young, Oliver Gross, Dexter Voisin, Ellen Coleman, Rebecca Kodysh, Cecil Lipscomb)
Mandel School honors 2025 Alumni Award winners during Homecoming and Reunion Weekend
As members of the ӰƵ community celebrated Homecoming and Reunion Weekend 2025, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences took time for a more personalized celebration: recognizing exemplary alumni. More than 60 Mandel School alumni…
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2024-25 Department of Accountancy Awards, Research and Presentations
Mary Sasmaz has increased her presence in the financial literacy space. In the fall of 2024, she helped graduate students of audiology and speech-language pathology, participants in the IMPACT program, gain a better understanding of debt and debt management. She also led a financial literacy…
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Rethinking the Middle Ages: CWRU art historian reframes abstraction
When you consider abstract art, your mind likely conjures images of works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Piet Mondrian: bold shapes, swaths of vibrant colors and innovative techniques. However, an international team of art historians is challenging that perception with their research on…
Accountancy 2024-25 Student Award winners
Department of Accountancy 2024-25 Student News and Awards
Senior and Undergraduate Accounting Awards Jadon Wyant received the prestigious Weatherhead School of Management Award for being the most outstanding senior in Accountancy. Jadon’s academic excellence and leadership have set a high standard for peers. Rachel George was honored with the…
Mandel School PhD 2025 cohort
Meet the Mandel School's new PhD cohort
The beginning of the semester marked a new chapter for a group of PhD students at ӰƵ’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. The Mandel School’s PhD in Social Welfare program welcomed eight new doctoral students who have begun their…
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Helena Fynn’s Storyteller Journey with CWRU LaunchNET Grant
Stories can be the gift that keeps on giving, and for Helena Fynn, this could not be more true. Helena is a sophomore at CWRU majoring in Biology and English, with minors in chemistry, music, and dance. With the support of a LaunchNET grant, she is developing her enterprise, The Storyteller, a…
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Alumna earns prestigious role on International Federation of Social Workers’ UN commission
After a months-long application and interview process, the North American region of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) settled on a ӰƵ alumna as one of four North American social workers to become a representative on commission to the United Nations…
Tom King gave the 40th Dickerson Lecture on Apr. 21
Department of Accountancy 2024-25 Events
Meet the Firms The annual Meet the Firms event continues to be the premier job fair for accounting, finance and other financial information students at Weatherhead School of Management. The Beta Alpha Psi student organization, co-advised by Tony Bucaro and Melissa Carlisle, but run entirely…
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Exploring the power of poetry: Walt Hunter's journey through words and history
Walt Hunter Senior Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences Area of Focus: Poetry and how it connects to the world Since he was introduced to the works of William Butler Yeats and Emily Dickinson in early childhood, Walt Hunter has loved poetry—an admiration he's turned into a…
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Canonizing a millennial saint: CWRU experts weigh in on what Carlo Acutis means for today’s church
Yesterday (Sept. 7) at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV officially canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer enthusiast from Italy who died in 2006 and has since become known as the “patron saint of the internet.” To learn more about the significance of Acutis’s canonization, we spoke with Brian…