Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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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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March 25, 2019
Four social-work faculty
members from ӰƵ were named among the top 100
social workers in the nation by Taylor & Francis, an international academic
publishing company. The names of those employed by the 76 members of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral…
March 22, 2019
David S. Crampton Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish recently
announced the appointment of 10 individuals to serve on the county’s Division
of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Advisory Board. Among them is David S.
Crampton, associate professor of social work at the Jack, Joseph and…
March 19, 2019
Ruby B. Pernell, in a 1981 photo from CWRU Archives. Appointed acting dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences in 1973-74 (now the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel of Applied Social Sciences), Ruby B. Pernell was the first African-American woman dean at ӰƵ. She came…
March 18, 2019
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social
Sciences’ offices of International Education Programs and International Affairs
are hosting an International Resource Marketplace on Tuesday, March 19, at the
Mandel School Noble Commons from noon to 2 p.m. This event is intended to…
March 15, 2019
Four ӰƵ researchers wrote a paper on their work on cigarillo use among young people. The paper, titled “A comparison of methods to measure daily cigarillo consumption among adolescents and young adults,” was published in Tobacco Control. The four researchers…
March 11, 2019
Just months before the first students arrive at the Health Education Campus (HEC) of ӰƵ and Cleveland Clinic, the university’s largest school received welcome news from U.S. News & World Report. It stands as the nation’s 24th-ranked research
medical school this year, one…
March 01, 2019
Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Senior Research Associate Rachel Lovell and Research Assistant Joanna Klingenstein, and Liuhong Yang, a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, recently had an article published titled “Testing…
February 28, 2019
Join the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied
Social Sciences for its 2019 Spring Open House Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. During the open house, attendees will learn about the school’s top-ranked social work and nonprofit master's programs, and have access to faculty,…
February 25, 2019
The Center on Trauma and Adversity will host Healing Network Nights open to all local healing professionals on the fourth Thursday every month. The events aim to: Foster social connections and quality relationships; Enhance interprofessional collaboration and community; and Promote a more…
February 21, 2019
Collective Action Toward Social Justice is hosting its second annual Black Business Bazaar this week. Members of the ӰƵ community can stop by today (Feb. 21) to check out more than 20 black-owned businesses from throughout the greater Cleveland area. The bazaar will be…