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Students to head to Bermuda, Berlin and beyond as part of Steinbrecher research

Eight Clark University undergraduate students were recently awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support their pursuit of original ideas, creative research and community service projects this summer and during the 2016-2017 academic year. The students (five are pictured above) and their projects include: Sophie Debler ’17, a biology major, who will conduct research on the possible effects of variation in feeding sources…

Founder of MuslimGirl.net to speak at Clark on International Women’s Day

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl.net, is kicking off Women’s History Month at Clark University. Al-Khatahtbeh, 23, who founded the website as a 17-year-old, plans to discuss how the site has been a forum for serious discussion about the intersection of Islam and Muslim women’s feminist identities. Clark doctoral student Hasnaa Mokhtar writes for…

Higgins School ‘Symposium on Translation’ boldly goes into science fiction themes

Audiences will soon be pouring into movie theaters to experience the seventh installment of the “Star Wars” saga. But science fiction, even the variety filled with tales of aliens and distant galaxies, is marked by themes that are acutely human, drawing as they do from contemporary culture, deep history and embedded belief systems. This humanity…

LEEP Fellows take center stage in Hervey Ross ’50, L.H.D. ’07, LEEP Oratorical Contest

Gabby Seligman ’16 stood on the stage in Jefferson 320 and embarked on a walking tour — without ever leaving the building. Instead, she verbally painted a picture for her audience of the dramatically altered Beaver Brook neighborhood in Worcester, not far from Clark University. She spoke about the historic Harrington & Richardson Arms Co.,…

Clark U. senior receives $10,000 from Davis Projects for Peace to empower Ghanaian schoolchildren

Last summer, Clark University’s Delight Gavor ’16, of Accra, Ghana, received funding and support from Clark’s LEEP initiative to implement a program she co-designed to help 36 truant youth discover and explore their talents in journalism, musical theatre, recycled art, and other areas, and apply those talents to solve problems in their community. This summer,…

Clark students help Worcester organizations with cleanup during annual ‘Just Do It Day’

On Saturday, April 18, one hundred twenty Clark University students participated in service projects throughout the Worcester community during the annual “Just Do it Day.” Some students travelled to the Jacob Hiatt Magnet School and the YMCA and contributed their manpower to painting projects. Others spent their time preparing the Semillas de Vida garden at…

Clark University language students share poetry, songs, video with poet, AIDS activist

On March 30, Clark University and the Department of Language, Literature and Culture welcomed a special guest, poet and AIDS activist Norberto A. Stuart, who inspired students and faculty alike as he shared both his poetry and his story. An AIDS activist who has been living with the disease for 25 years, Stuart encouraged students…

From tragedy, a hero rises in Colombia

When the baby died in her arms, Catalina Escobar ’93 knew she had to do something. Volunteering in a hospital in Cartagena, Colombia, Escobar was helpless as the infant passed away. She later learned that the child could have been saved if his mother had been able to afford the $30 needed to pay for…

Clark University is no. 10 in Peace Corps ranking of volunteer-producing schools

Clark University is number 10 on the Peace Corps’ 2015 rankings of the top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the U.S. Clark is ranked on the list of small universities and colleges, with 11 alumni volunteering worldwide. Since 1961, 239 Clark alumni have served in the Peace Corps, but the University last appeared in the national…

Clark’s Higgins School of Humanities’ spring 2015 dialogue symposium focuses on ‘play’

This semester, the Clark University Higgins School of Humanities‘ dialogue symposium is focusing on “The Work of Play” and how play thrives in our achievement and results-oriented society. We will consider free play and games, cooperation and competition, sports and technology. Programming will explore how play provide space for fantasy, diversion, and escape. It will…