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Spartan Showcase: Leah Berdysz
Program: Master of Science in Social Administration, with a certificate in Child, Youth & Families and School Social Work Year: Second-year Leah Berdysz is on a mission to empower girls to be their strongest, healthiest and happiest selves. That mission was the basis for her startup,…
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14 students, three continents, one dance: Department of Dance’s “Spaces and Places” is creative and logistical triumph
With exuberant choreography, beautiful outdoor scenery and an uplifting musical score, “Spaces and Places,” a new dance production by Professor Gary Galbraith and students in the Department of Dance, spreads a message of hope in a world in which COVID-19, social unrest and political discontent…
Transformational Giving: Philanthropic Strategies for Sustainable Change
The Mandel School's Nonprofit Management and Leadership series continues this fall Discover philanthropic strategies for sustainable change through the Mandel School's Nonprofit Management and Leadership series. The next session will be held virtually on Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. in honor of Nonprofit…
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Preventing lead poisoning at the source
APP researchers examine implications for lead-safe housing in Cleveland through lens of rental properties and their landlords More than 103,000 rental units spread across Cleveland proper are potentially vulnerable to lead contamination because they were built before…
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New ‘Conversations on JUSTICE’ series featuring former Inamori Ethics Prize winners LeVar Burton, Marian Wright Edelman, Farouk El-Baz and others
The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at APP will postpone their annual Inamori Ethics Prize events until 2021, and during the 2020-21 academic year, will instead provide space for a continuing conversation, examination and introspection on a topic…
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Alumni perspectives amid a pandemic
“Nothing could quite prepare you for being on the front lines of a pandemic in the hot spot of the U.S.” This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social…
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A decade after the Occupy Movement, a new digital archive chronicles its history—and continuing influence
Launched at APP this summer, the open-source Occupy Archive offers citizens and scholars a chance to revisit the multi-faceted movement—and recognize its roots in contemporary calls for reform and justice The Occupy Movement was one of the first massive demonstrations…
Voith and Salas Atwell awarded grant to identify causal mechanisms of a hospital-based violence intervention program
Laura Voith, PhD, assistant professor and faculty affiliate of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Meghan Salas Atwell, PhD, senior research associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, were recently awarded a grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human…
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Learning from history
Alumnus’s research into a 1918 pandemic helps shape public understanding today This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social media accounts in…
Kathleen Farkas and Richard Romaniuk named Social Work Advances 2.0 program visiting scholars
Kathleen Farkas, associate professor, and Richard Romaniuk, lecturer, have been selected as visiting scholars in the Visiting Scholars in Social Work Advances 2.0 program for summer 2020. Social Work Advances is an international MA in Social Work program. Students rotate between university…