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Clark University spruces up Alden Quad

This past summer, the Clark University Physical Plant team spearheaded a significant renovation of the Alden Quadrangle, the green space on campus that is surrounded by two residence halls and the LEEP Center. The project was prompted by an urgent need to replace and make more efficient an aging pipe system, as well as to take a relatively…

An ounce of prevention

In health care circles, John O’Brien is known as a “turnaround guy.” He takes something that’s struggling and makes it succeed, or he takes something that’s already working and makes it work better. O’Brien has been the CEO of two hospital systems, served as the commissioner of public health for the city of Cambridge, Mass.,…

Clark U. geographer awarded NSF grant to study governance in community land trusts

Deborah Martin, associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Joseph Pierce (Florida State University) and James DeFilippis (Rutgers University), were recently awarded $175,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their four-year project titled “The scale of governance in the regulation of land: community land trusts in the Twin Cities.” Clark’s portion of the…

Former President Clinton draws a crowd, and then some, to Atwood Hall at Clark U.

A bouquet of umbrellas sprouted outside Clark University’s Atwood Hall two hours before former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to arrive there. Before long, the line of umbrellas stretched beyond the Goddard Library, as people patiently waited in a steady rain for the chance to see Clinton take the stage to speak on behalf of…

Shooting Stars

DIANA LEVINE’S NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHY CAREER IS A NAME-DROPPER’S DREAM Imagine you’re a recent college graduate living in one of the greatest cities in the world. Your job is to take fabulous photos of big-time celebrities while you travel to exciting places, honing skills that are lighting the career path you chose when you were…

Shakespeare’s Siren

JACQUELYN BESSELL, M.A. ’94, PH.D. ’96, CHAMPIONS THE BARD ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC

Princeton Review: Clark’s Graduate School of Management is a best business school

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Clark University is once again selected as one of the nation’s outstanding business schools by The Princeton Review, which features the school in the new 2015 edition of “The Best 296 Business Schools.” The Princeton Review tallied its Best Business School list based on feedback from 21,600 students attending the 296…

His chosen field

Editor's note: In light of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl win on Sunday, we're republishing this 2013 CLARK magazine story about Eagles owner and Clarkie Jeffrey Lurie '73.

Biblical scholar logs more than 60,000 air miles in sabbatical lecture tour

Everett Fox, Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University, recently returned from a world tour where he addressed English-speaking audiences in Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States about his Biblical translation work. Fox plans to resume his travels with a visit to England in December. Until then,…

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz talks about ‘living on the hyphen’

He came to Clark University on Sept. 30 to deliver the President’s Lecture, but novelist Junot Diaz quickly disabused the audience of any notion that his lecture would be like any other delivered within the walls of venerable Atwood Hall. Eschewing the podium to roam the stage, Diaz launched into a dialogue-driven presentation in which he used audience questions to…