Active Learning and Research

Providing opportunities to participate in creative activity and the discovery of new knowledge is a hallmark of a Clark education. In these pages you can read about faculty and student endeavors throughout a broad range of disciplines.

Many stipends, fellowships and other sources of funding are available to undergraduates for research and creative projects. Learn more

Urban Development and Social Change (UDSC)

Strengthening vulnerable communities
Urban residents living in poverty often face a number of threats to their physical health and wellbeing, including pollution, delapidated housing, and crime. UDSC Summer Fellow Jill Reitzel is conducting neighborhood surveys as part of a large study assessing environmental conditions in two Worcester neighborhoods. Read more

International Development

Grassroots activism in Namibia
2005 Anton Fellow Evan Wilson interns with a non-profit organization dedicated to helping youth and people with HIV/AIDs in the former black township of Katutura, Windhoek. Read more

Geography

Risky business
Urban and rural planners make decisions that have profound effects on people's lives. Where should scarce food resources be allocated during a famine? What is the best evacuation route in the event of a flood? Geographer Ron Eastman, creator of the award-winning IDRISI geographic information system (GIS) software, designs software tools that help planners think logically about the locational decisions they make. Read more

IDCE / Geography

Searching for hope
Rwanda is an African country probably best known to Americans as the site in 1994 of a vicious struggle between two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis. A decade later, one of the legacies of that war, as well as of the AIDS epidemic, is a substantial number of child-headed households. Geography major Akosua Ampofo '05, a native of Ghana, is using an Anton Fellowship to study a community of child-headed households (defined as households headed by persons age 25 or under) in the region of Gikongoro, Rwanda. Read more

Environmental Science and Policy

Do you want fries with that?
What do french fries and tuna fish have in common? They both contain chemicals that might jeopardize your health if consumed in high enough quantities. Dr. Dale Hattis, a geneticist by training, specializes in assessing the level of risk we assume when exposed to a wide variety of chemical substances. Read more

Geography / Ecology

Changes in the 'hood
You're an American toad living in the cool leaf litter at the base of a shady tree. Suddenly, there are a lot of giants with big boots and noisy equipment stomping around in your neighborhood. The next day your tree is gone. Do you pack up the family and head for new digs, or do you hunker down and wait out the chaos? Read more