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Clark opportunities extolled, alumni feted at Reunion dinner

The world opened up for Michael Ross ’93 the day he arrived in Hughes Hall as a first-year student in 1989. The kid from a working-class Boston family found himself becoming fast friends with students who hailed from Pakistan, Jamaica, and that most exotic of locales, New York. Ross also discovered that Clark was a…

Past tense: William Koelsch’s book illuminates Clark history

“Check the Koelsch book.” It’s the standard response to the innumerable questions that arise about Clark’s past. Why was anthropology professor Franz Boas’ research considered revolutionary for its time? Which United States president delivered Clark’s 1905 commencement address? How did Clark students respond during wartime, from the world wars through Vietnam? “Check the Koelsch book.”…

From Tinkerer to Neuroscientist

Dr. John Kauer ’67, Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine, traces his career path back to pivotal research experiences at Clark University.

From Clark to the Moon

Edwin Aldrin ’15 helped a nation look skyward alongside Goddard, Lindbergh, and a son named Buzz

Legendary dean Hazel Hughes memorialized with plaque, stories

An old adage insists that “everyone has a story,” and never was that truer than at the May 21, 2011, gathering of Clark’s early women athletes in Room 001 of Jonas Clark Hall — the former Women’s Gym. Their stories flowed freely, delivered into a hand-held microphone and videotaped for posterity. The theme binding all…

D’Army Bailey ’65: A Radical Life

D’Army Bailey got booted from one university for leading civil rights protests. And then Clark came calling.

Floyd Ramsdell: The ‘Goddard of 3D’

Clark alumnus was a pioneer in ‘stereo pictures’

A league of their own: Clark’s first women athletes brought their A-game to campus

As World War II raged on, women filled the void — in the classroom and on the court

For Darius Shirzadi ’94, soccer is the pitch

Alum uses passion for soccer to promote educational opportunity, help at-risk kids excel