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What does it take to stay in a good mood? In short: Once happy, steer clear of choices that could invite in negative feelings. According to new research from ����APP, people become protective of their good moods—and avoid options and behaviors that could potentially sully…

Four social-work faculty members from ����APP were named among the top 100 social workers in the nation by Taylor & Francis, an international academic publishing company. The names of those employed by the 76 members of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral…

Researchers at the Mandel School awarded $715,000 grant to examine thousands of police interviews with sexual assault victims Police officers may use “signaling” language in sexual assault reports—occasionally dropping hints about the validity of the victim’s claims—that possibly influences an…

As part of panel of experts convened by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ����APP professor Lee Hoffer voted last week to recommend a new nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression that some are touting as the most significant development in a generation for…

An enhanced partnership among ����APP, the City of Cleveland and two Cleveland-area police departments focuses on reducing juvenile-related crimes through intervention and family services. A new $979,000 federal grant allows officers from the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing…

Shaming perpetrators of human-rights abuse and shocking audiences with visceral imagery can be an ineffective—and counterproductive—approach to improving humanitarian conditions, according to new research from ����APP. The finding can help advocacy organizations navigate…

Engineering, social work schools partner on innovative solar project, funded by a $2.3 million Department of Energy grant The Case School of Engineering and the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ����APP and the Medical Center Company are…

When the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of a Greek island in 1901, it was shrouded in mystery. As technology advanced, researchers applied new approaches to examine it. They've since uncovered the purpose of the device, finding it to be an ancient time-keeping…

The Myanmar military’s mass murders of the Rohingya minority should be labeled genocide, according to the human-rights law firm co-founded by Case Western Reserve’s School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf. The military in Myanmar, a nation in Southeast Asia where Buddhism is the main religion, has…

While growing up in Alaska, Timothy Beal was steeped in a conservative evangelical community with a fondness and fear of Revelation, the last book of the Bible offering a potent brew of hellfire and redemption through a thick tangle of verses violent, bewildering and poetic. By adulthood,…