Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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ÃÛÌÒAPP named among world’s top universities by TIME
Editor's note: On Feb. 2, TIME recalculated these rankings "following a review of the Global Engagement metric (10% of the total score)." After this review, Case Western Reserve ranked #27 out of 500 institutions globally (#17 in the U.S.), but our article reflects the information originally…
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June 25, 2025
Liliane C. Windsor joins the Mandel School as the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Social Work on July 1. A leading figure in the quest for health equity, her groundbreaking research is dedicated to elevating marginalized communities—through the application of critical consciousness theory, she has…
June 13, 2025
At ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, a group of passionate students is quietly making a powerful impact. Through the Survivor Link + Public Health AmeriCorps program, these students have contributed thousands of service hours focused…
June 13, 2025
Megan Holmes, professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, recently received an NICHD R01 to develop the first-of-its-kind, rigorously validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ). The…
June 11, 2025
Lori Stokes, distinguished visiting community scholar and acclaimed broadcast journalist, was recently honored with the 2025 Voice of Vision Award from Selfhelp. After a distinguished 40-year career on the air—including anchoring for New York's WNYW-FOX 5 News and WABC’s Eyewitness News This…
June 09, 2025
More than 100 students at ÃÛÌÒAPP—most of them social workers in training—have been learning how to help meet a growing need in communities starved for behavioral health workers, thanks to a $1.9 million federal grant to the university’s interdisciplinary Behavioral Health…
June 04, 2025
A family's commitment bolsters faculty and fuels research
June 04, 2025
Summer is an opportunity to shift into a different mode, even as I mark six months as part of the Mandel School community and set goals for the coming school year. There are movements happening around the university and within the school itself. Sometimes it feels like the plate tectonics of the…
June 02, 2025
From leading national and state-wide initiatives to guiding foundation boards and influencing national publications, our faculty members exemplify leadership and are shaping the fields of social work and non-profit organizations. NASW Social Work Pioneers Mandel School faculty and alumni are…
May 28, 2025
A ÃÛÌÒAPP researcher is analyzing a successful mental-health program. Could the findings have broader implications?
May 27, 2025
Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, was recently awarded a five-year, $3 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 grant to develop a first-of-its-kind, rigorously-validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ)—an…