ClarkU News

  • $500,000 gift intensifies Clark focus on urban education

    Clark alumnus and former Worcester resident Lee Gurel, Ph.D., of Alexandria, Va., has given $500,000 to the University to establish the Endowed Education Fund, aiming to help “share the secret” of Clark’s model of effective urban education. The gift provides for a permanent endowment designed to help close the gap between research and practice, promising…

  • Drapos Memorial Lecture focus on immigration law

    WORCESTER, MA— Kevin R. Johnson, a noted international expert on immigration, race and civil rights law, will deliver a Drapos Memorial Lecture “Opening the Floodgates:  Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws,” beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24,  at Clark University’s Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street, Worcester.   The…

  • President Bassett to Step Down

    Dramatic Advances Made and Challenges Met during Decade at Helm

  • Clean Energy Center Awards $150K for Innovation, Sustainability

    Institute Will Provide City with New Economic Engine WORCESTER, Mass. – Sept. 28, 2009 – The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) has awarded a grant of $150,000 to the newly formed Institute for Energy Innovation and Sustainability (IEIS) in Worcester to support the start-up phase of its operations. The IEIS grew out of discussions led…

  • ASU, Clark U join to improve world tourism industry

    WORCESTER, MA—The tourism industry is the world’s largest employer, and a new collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Clark University is devoted to making it more responsible to communities. ASU’s Megapolitan Tourism Research Center and Clark’s George Perkins Marsh Institute are developing several international and national projects focusing on the role of travel and tourism in…

  • Clark appoints Admissions dean

    WORCESTER, Mass. — Clark University announces the appointment of Don Honeman as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid. Honeman joined the Clark community on August 3 after serving as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. At UMass Dartmouth, Honeman lead the offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, Transfer Affairs, the University…

  • Freud’s Adirondack Vacation

    The New York Times offers an interesting look at Freud’s visit and lectures at Clark 100 years ago.

  • Freud in Massachusetts

    Clark archivist Mott Linn discusses Sigmund Freud’s visit to Clark University 100 years ago to deliver his groundbreaking lectures about psychoanalysis.

  • Two brothers, no fears and $1 billion empire

    CNN profiles the business success of Clark alumnus Steven Robert and his brother, Michael.

  • Workplace suicides surge by 28%

    “Survivor’s guilt” may be behind the rise in workplace suicides, Professor Gary Chaison tells the Associated Press.

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