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May 05, 2023
University-wide course pairs social work and health sciences students for service-learning projects with local nonprofits Each week, more than 500 health sciences and social work students at ӰƵ gather to learn how to work together—all while benefiting the…
May 01, 2023
Duncan Mayer, a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently penned two articles about child maltreatment using Cuyahoga County data. The first article, published in Social Currents, explored the role nonprofit organizations have in the spatial…
April 20, 2023
Associate Professor Megan R. Holmes has been promoted to full professor effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Holmes earned her MSW and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the Mandel School faculty as an assistant professor in 2012. She was promoted to associate professor with…
April 17, 2023
Associate Professor Kathleen J. Farkas will retire effective June 30, 2023. She has devoted 35 years of exceptional scholarship, teaching and service to the Mandel School, ӰƵ and the academy. Dr. Farkas has made significant scholarly contributions to the areas of…
March 31, 2023
Ashley Withrow, Katie Russell and Braveheart Gillani, PhD students at the Mandel School, recently penned an article that was published in The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. Their paper was titled “Mindfulness training for law enforcement to reduce occupational impact: A…
March 23, 2023
In honor of Social Work Month, the Mandel School is highlighting all of the ways we provide impact to our school, university, local community and beyond. Read on to see what we've been up to lately. Seventh Mandel School faculty member named AASWSW fellow Victor Groza, the Grace F. Brody…
March 17, 2023
Karen Ishler, Tugba Olgac and David Biegel published an article in Autism titled “Barriers to service and unmet need among autistic adolescents and young adults.” This is their second publication from their study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) caregivers that was funded by a Mt. Sinai Catalytic…
March 16, 2023
Braveheart Gillani, a PhD student at the Mandel School, and Kristen Kirchgesler, web services librarian at the Lillian and Milford Harris Library, recently penned an article titled “Sites of Possibilities: A Scoping Review to Investigate the Mentorship of Marginalized Social Work Doctoral…
February 27, 2023
ӰƵ is named as a top business and management university by Research.com, ranking #17 in the nation and #23 in the world. The ranking is based on data collected from various sources, including OpenAlex and CrossRef, on Dec. 21, 2022. Position in the ranking is…
February 20, 2023
Class Year: May 2023 Degree Program: MSW Concentration: Community Practice for Social Change Hometown: China Field Education Organization: Neighborhood Connections in Cleveland, OH Before beginning at ӰƵ, what were you doing? I was a sociology student…