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Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
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Recent News

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Distinguished Visiting Community Scholar Lori Stokes honored with Selfhelp's Voice of Vision award
Lori Stokes, distinguished visiting community scholar and acclaimed broadcast journalist, was recently honored with the 2025 Voice of Vision Award from Selfhelp. After a distinguished 40-year career on the air—including anchoring for New York's WNYW-FOX 5 News and WABC’s Eyewitness News This…
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HRSA grant addresses behavioral health services shortage in Northeast Ohio
More than 100 students at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€”most of them social workers in training—have been learning how to help meet a growing need in communities starved for behavioral health workers, thanks to a $1.9 million federal grant to the university’s interdisciplinary Behavioral Health…
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Enrichment & Engagement Corner: June 2025
Summer is an opportunity to shift into a different mode, even as I mark six months as part of the Mandel School community and set goals for the coming school year. There are movements happening around the university and within the school itself. Sometimes it feels like the plate tectonics of the…
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Mandel School faculty members are leading with impact
From leading national and state-wide initiatives to guiding foundation boards and influencing national publications, our faculty members exemplify leadership and are shaping the fields of social work and non-profit organizations. NASW Social Work Pioneers Mandel School faculty and alumni are…
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Think magazine: Rebuilding lives
A ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ researcher is analyzing a successful mental-health program. Could the findings have broader implications?
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May 2025 Inside the Action Newsletter
Please note: Items that appear in the Community Postings section are submitted by visitors. Posts are reviewed to ensure they are appropriate for our audience, but typically are not edited by University Marketing and Communications. In this month's edition: Congratulations to our new…
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Megan Holmes receives R01 grant to help understand and support positive sibling relationships
Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, was recently awarded a five-year, $3 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 grant to develop a first-of-its-kind, rigorously-validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ)—an…
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Professors Marji Edguer and David Miller promoted effective July 1
Assistant Professor Marjorie N. Edguer has been promoted by the President, Provost and Board of Trustees to associate professor, non-tenure track, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Edguer has been a valued member of the Mandel School since 1992. Following the completion of her dissertation in 2017,…
Commencement 2025
Commencement 2025
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences celebrated the graduation of its Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO), and PhD in Social Welfare students on Friday, May 16, 2025. The Mandel School's diploma ceremony took place at the Maltz…
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PhD student Sydney Evans honored by Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation
Sydney Evans, a member of the Community Outreach and Engagement team at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and community navigator for the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project, was named a 40 Under 40 Emerging Legend by the Black Professionals Association Charitable…