In this series of eight sessions, Clark faculty addressed the significant challenges of the day as well as the impact of the University’s research and engagement in Worcester and around the world.
Friday, April 29, 2022
12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Jefferson 320 and Razzo Hall
12:30 P.M. TO 1:30 P.M.
Clark is distinctive in its decades-long engagements with global, policy-relevant, and transdisciplinary research on climate and global change.
12:30 P.M. TO 1:30 P.M.
In this exploration of Clark’s research on race, gender, and ethnicity, Professors Power-Greene and Fábos facilitate a discussion while highlighting two recent faculty works.
2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Faculty share their research on virtual reality, blockchain, and social media.
2:00 P.M. TO 3:00 P.M.
Professor Williams moderates a panel of political science faculty on the crisis in democracy today in Russia, China, and the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States.
3:30 P.M. TO 4:30 P.M.
Professors Pontius, Frey, and Estes discuss how they and their students are using recent advances in Geographic Information Science to gain insights into how our planet’s land and oceans are changing. Professors Martin and Rogan discuss the cutting-edge, interdisciplinary human-environment research concerning climate change adaptation in environmental justice communities throughout Massachusetts
3:30 P.M. TO 4:30 P.M.
Faculty discuss the broad range of their engagement in the community — in prisons, local science programs, youth participatory action research — as well as the dynamics of long-term community-university relations.
5:00 P.M. TO 6:00 P.M.
After a screening of Professor Sorensen’s award-winning short documentary, With Dad, about Professor DiRado’s photographic study of his father’s journey with Alzheimer’s disease, Professors Arnett and Jones will lead a discussion with the audience and the artists about aging and the medical humanities.
5:00 P.M. TO 6:00 P.M.
Professor Tang investigates the role of corporate social responsibility in promoting community-level, socially responsible behavior during a special period of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
