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‘Grammar’ lessons: Faculty-student team decoding language of the genome

As a high school student in Milton, Massachusetts, Luke Nourie took a class in biotechnology and thought, “Wow, I love this. This is what I want to do.” He could see himself pursuing a college degree tied to the field, which drives the booming economy of the Bay State and provides over 63,000 jobs. After reading about…

Study: Ecosystems slow the rate of rising CO2 concentration

Clark geography professor co-author of Nature Communications article

With $2M in grants, researcher uses economics to inform environmental sustainability

Flint, Michigan, officials decided to save $5 million by switching the city’s water source to a more risky alternative. That fateful decision not only exposed 8,000 children to lead poisoning, it also could cost taxpayers an estimated $395 million or more to address the long-term health, educational and social problems stemming from resulting health effects. For environmental…

Clark’s CDP program partners with Worcester on families, food economy

The professors and students in Clark’s Community Development and Planning (CDP) program learn from and work alongside members of the very community they want to transform. Their research not only pursues solutions to problems besetting urban neighborhoods, but also helps governments and nonprofits aspire to a more socially just world. Food and the local economy Associate Professor Ramón…

Clark’s curricular innovations garner $620,000 Mellon Foundation grant

Support to help propel Clark’s developments in humanities education

Clark geographer receives NASA grant to study the impacts of sea-ice thinning and retreat in the Pacific Arctic

Karen Frey, associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), received a grant from NASA for their project titled “Observing and understanding the impacts of a thinning…

$600K Mellon Foundation grant backs Clark humanities initiative

In September 2012, Clark University was awarded $600,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Humanities Present, a new initiative of the Higgins School of Humanities that promises to have a critical impact on the Clark curriculum and to contribute to Clark’s Liberal Education and Effective Practice (LEEP) initiative. “This generous Mellon Foundation grant allows us to fully explore the role…

Clark gets $260K Davis Foundation grant to support LEEP initiative

Clark University has received a $260,338 grant to support key components of its Liberal Education and Effective Practice Initiative (LEEP), a multi-year, campus-wide program that aims to re-invent traditional, undergraduate liberal education. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation, established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.…