Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences
January 28, 2022
Jennifer King, assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, wrote about navigating stress amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In her piece, titled “The Pandemic Stress Hack That Just Might Keep You Going” and published on Medium, King explained how not all stress is a bad…
January 21, 2022
APP researchers find coping with stress, discrimination by working harder doesn’t pay off—mentally or physically According to late-1800s folklore, Black American railroad worker John Henry endured a contest that would tax his strength enough to kill him. The legend…
January 19, 2022
Helping Cleveland’s residents and neighborhoods thrive Partnering to propel a neighborhood’s renewal Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood sits just a mile southwest of Case Western Reserve’s campus, but to Debbie Wilber, it feels like “a world away.” …
January 19, 2022
APP researchers to use acting method, wellness strategies for teens with anxiety issues; supported by National Endowment for the Arts Behavioral research at APP, which aims to help teens overcome anxiety by blending the power of established…
January 13, 2022
National Science Foundation grant funds APP-led team seeking to modernize industry as key to helping surrounding neighborhoods APP engineers, computer scientists and social scientists are leading a project to help modernize small- and…
January 12, 2022
Interactive online dashboard goes live, highlighting progress of public-private Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition partnership When Cleveland City Council passed the Lead Safe Cleveland ordinance in 2019—landmark legislation resulting from data showing the toxic heavy metal was poisoning the city’s…
January 10, 2022
The annual Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) 2022 Conference is taking place this year from Jan. 12–16, 2022 in Washington, D.C. and online. It will feature social work education presentations, an exhibit hall and networking opportunities. Themed Social Work Science for Racial, Social…
January 06, 2022
Building Hope and Community Some residents in a severely distressed and isolated 1930s-era public housing complex on Cleveland’s east side live without shower stalls or reliable heat. Greenery is scarce, as are washers and dryers—just three of each for 487 units. But now a $35 million federal…
January 05, 2022
Launched by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2016, the Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) are 13 groundbreaking initiatives meant to champion social progress that is powered by science. They are a call-to-action for those within and outside the profession of…
December 21, 2021
From the raging opioid epidemic to social justice and gun violence and to the trauma caused by the global pandemic, the expertise and insight of the faculty at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at APP were at the forefront of the…