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July 10, 2018
APP has a long, rich history in social work. As the nation’s first university-affiliated professional graduate school of social work, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences holds a special place in history. That historical account is now…
July 09, 2018
U.S. Department of Energy awards $10.75 million to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at APP
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded APP $10.75 million over four years to establish a research center to explore “Breakthrough…
July 05, 2018
Many of the Cleveland neighborhoods that banks “redlined” almost a century ago have some of the city’s highest rates of poverty and crime. Although the lending practice of rejecting mortgage applications in specific neighborhoods—more accurately, to minorities—was banned more than 50 years ago,…
July 03, 2018
APP’s Division of Public Safety is scheduled for an on-site assessment Aug. 12-14 as part of a program to achieve accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards. Administered by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA),…
June 29, 2018
Amputees use new, naturalistic sensory device at home for daily tasks, gain greater sense of personal well-being and connection to loved ones
In the first known study of how amputees use advanced sensory-enabled prostheses outside the lab, subjects used a mechanical hand more regularly and for…
June 27, 2018
Case Western Reserve researchers, collaborators from two other universities, identify two new ancient mammals in Bolivia dig
Researchers at APP and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils of a pair of new species of extinct hoofed mammals…
June 27, 2018
Urban Institute report examines fallout from nation’s housing instability
Residential instability is often addressed only at the point of homelessness and treated as a family or household problem. While homelessness is a serious issue, said Claudia Coulton, a Distinguished University Professor at…
June 25, 2018
A new affiliation between APP and The MetroHealth System will give students at the university’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing greater educational, clinical and research opportunities. Under the new affiliation agreement, CWRU nursing students can train and…
June 21, 2018
Collaboration across APP, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals celebrates 30th anniversary as one of nation’s elite cancer centers
Northeast Ohio’s coordinated effort to combat cancer has earned an extraordinary endorsement from the National Cancer Institute (NCI):…
June 20, 2018
Findings may help identify men who need early, regular screening
As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, a cancer epidemiology researcher at APP School of Medicine, and an international team of more than 100 colleagues have identified…