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cleveland.com: Angela Newman-White, executive director of First Year Cleveland at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said Cuyahoga County’s infant mortality rate is slowly declining, but inequities continue to persist. “The latest three-year data from 2020–2022…

Kedong Ding, a doctoral student, was selected to participate in the 2023 Data-Intensive Research Conference pre-conference workshop. Hosted by the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series and the University of Minnesota’s Life Course Center, the conference will be held from July 31 to Aug. 2. Ding…

Alumna Bethany Friel applies her social work experience to help manage affordable and mixed-income housing Bethany Friel (SAS ’11) still remembers the client who opened her eyes to the harsh realities of housing insecurity. As a social worker in her native Pittsburgh, Friel was working with a…

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Duncan Mayer, a PhD student, recently had an article published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. In the article, titled “Understanding Location and Density: A Spatial Analysis of Cuyahoga County Ohio’s Nonprofit Sector,” Mayer used geostatistical data to better understand nonprofits’…

Cleveland 19 News: Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, explained the findings of a five-year study focused on transforming the city’s recreation centers and how they handle youth trauma and mental health. “Today, we consider neurobiology,”…

Several scholars at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently collaborated on a paper published in the journal Hindawi Autism Research and Treatment. Partially funded by the Mandel School’s Research & Training Development Grant Program (RTDG) and a Mt. Sinai…

Alumna Darlene Grant became a Peace Corps volunteer at 49; 11 years later, she joined the agency’s top ranks. In seventh grade, with a bully on her heels, Darlene Grant slipped through a door at her Cleveland junior high school and found herself in the music room, staring at a line of…

University’s Center on Trauma and Adversity helping to build nation’s first system of its kind to promote healing, healthy environments Cleveland’s recreation centers offer opportunities from cooking classes to robotics workshops. But ����APP researchers found—through…

WKYC: Ric Kruszynski, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) in the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the state’s new $6 million grant to launch the Substance Use Center of Excellence at the university to help combat Ohio's growing opioid…