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Our Research Focus

As a research university, we seek to solve society’s most pressing problems, while educating and engaging the next generation of researchers.

Math Professor Jackie Dresch is photographed in a lab on the campus of Clark University on January 27, 2016. Photo by Matthew Healey for Clark University

Faculty Research

The effects of climate change, from sub-Saharan Africa to the Arctic. The biochemical roots of cancer. Our faculty focus on the world’s most complex and thorny issues.

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Student Research

Undergraduate Research

Through capstone projects and fellowships, undergraduate students collaborate closely with faculty to contribute to the greater body of knowledge.

Graduate Research

Clark values graduate student researchers, who enrich our close-knit community of scholars.

Our Stories

‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’

Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility

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Biologist wins $1.56 million NSF CAREER grant

Ahlgren’s marine research focuses on key producer of earth’s oxygen

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‘It’s easier to see inherent truth in a documentary’

Mexico City water crisis is the subject of student filmmakers’ storytelling

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‘The pendulum's always moving’

How the Harris and Trump campaigns are making a final appeal to voters

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‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’

Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility

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‘Our fate is tied to theirs’

Sea turtles personify connection between humans and nature

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‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’

Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility

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Squirmy medicine: Will robot worms heal what ails you?

Soft robots may one day assist with illness diagnoses, medicine delivery

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Building resilience in Puerto Rico

Clark professor, students work with coffee community to overcome disasters

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‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’

Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility

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‘I'm starting to see how my project is impacting people’

Students to show off research prowess at ClarkFEST

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‘We are really helping understudied individuals’

Danny Fredette researches how Asian American adoptees approach therapy

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Community Research Partners

Clark researchers listen to and work closely with community members, schools, nonprofits, and health programs, often involving students in ongoing projects.

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