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Clark University makes the grade at ‘40 Under 40’ awards event

As it so often does, Clark University enjoyed a robust presence at the Worcester Business Journal‘s 17th annual “40 Under 40” awards program held Sept. 14 at Mechanics Hall. Launched in 2000, the awards honor business leaders under the age of 40 who are making an impact in the Central Massachusetts/Metro West region. Among this year’s…

Professor presents findings on ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

USDA awards Edward Carr for work on climate change, food security

Undergrads’ physics research drills deep into fracking-induced quakes

Two undergraduates majoring in physics at Clark University are working with their professor, Arshad Kudrolli, to fine-tune a mathematical model that captures the development of erosion underground. Their research, part of a summer LEEP project, eventually could help scientists better understand the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other cases where fluids carve out channels and destabilize the…

A passion for sports, an eye to helping others

Clark GSOM graduate's Radiant Sport a hit in India

Holocaust historian appears in Ken Burns PBS documentary

Joukowsky, the film’s producer and Sharps’ grandson, shared his process during visits with Deborah Dwork's students

American studies expertise sends Clark professor overseas

It was a transcontinental kind of summer for Mark Miller. In May, the Clark University professor of political science presented a paper at the 16th Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference for North American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. In it he argued that the U.S. Supreme Court needs clear standards for…

Clark alumna turns her lens on war-torn Yemen

Thana Faroq ’13 took her first photograph — a picture of her family — using her father’s camera when she was just 10 years old. Back then, she and her family lived in a peaceful Yemen, one without war or bloodshed. Today, Faroq (pictured above), a Sanaa-based photographer, captures images of her war-torn city’s street life. Many of…

Higgins School of Humanities’ fall dialogue symposium to focus on ‘home’

Clark University’s Higgins School of Humanities’ dialogue symposium, “Home (De)Constructed,” will consider the fluid meanings of home. Lectures, community conversations and exhibits will focus on how we define home’s boundaries, and what makes a particular structure, community, city or nation feel like home. “Together we will explore our assumptions about domestic goods and spaces, ask how…

U.S. News ranks Clark University No. 74 in Best Colleges Guide

University is No. 27 among Best Value Schools

7 Continents, 1 Summer: Clarkies travel around the world – and back again

Over three months this summer, we took you on a journey across the world, from the streets of Haiti to the railways of Russia; from Antarctica’s Clark Mountains to the Arctic’s Wrangel Island. Along the way, we met Clark University undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni and staff who, among other things, studied tree death…