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The Graduate School of Geography offers programs for both undergraduate and graduate study. Areas of focus include nature and society; globalization, cities and development; earth system science and geographic information science (GIS).
"...if you want to be a geographer...be the best. Take your graduate work at this school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University." —Texas, James Michener, 1985, p. 504. |
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Welcome to Clark's Graduate School of Geography
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Clark's Graduate School of Geography is the oldest sustained program of geography and has awarded more Ph.D.s than any other geography program in the U.S. Clark Geography was established initially in 1921 as a graduate program only, and retains the name Graduate School of Geography in honor of its legacy as the longest standing doctoral program in the United States. The undergraduate program was established in 1923. Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges rates the School as "most selective," its highest rating for programs in the United States. A Master of Arts in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is offered as a shared program between the Graduate School of Geography and the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.
The Graduate School of Geography is also one of the only geography programs in North American to publish an internationally peer-reviewed journal, Economic Geography. The journal is committed to publishing the best theoretically-based empirical articles that deepen the understanding of significant economic geography issues around the world.
Clark's geography program is the only one in North America to have a mountain range named for it. The Clark Mountains, Antarctica, were named by one of program’s graduates, Paul Siple, famed meteorologist, explorer and inventor of the “wind chill factor.” Siple named the peaks of the Clark Mountains after his faculty instructors: Jones, Atwood, Burnham, Ekblaw, and Van Valkenburg.
Clark Geography is one of the only degree-granting programs to have its own commercially distributed Geographic Information System—the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing System. Shared with the Clark Labs, George Perkins Marsh Institute, IDRISI maintains over 35,000 registered users.
Clark has a long tradition of producing women geographers as detailed by Janice Monk in her AAG Special Issue of Economic Geography (1998).
We invite you to learn more about our geography program on the accompanying web pages.
Faculty Retreat 2009: Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Front row left to right:
Dianne Rocheleau, Yuko Aoyama,
Deborah Martin, Jody Emel,
Karen Frey, Colin Polsky.
Back row left to right:
John Rogan, Dick Peet, Doug Johnson
Gil Pontius, Dominik Kulakowski
Sam Ratick, Chris Williams
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News and Events
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Prof. Jim Murphy
(with co-PI Pádraig Carmody of Trinity College in Dublin
Ireland) has been awarded a $230,000 research grant from the
National Science Foundation for their project titled
The Role of Information-Communication Technologies in Enterprise
Development and Industrial Change in Africa: Evidence from South
Africa and Tanzania."
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0925151
Prof. Colin Polsky
has been awarded $300,000 from NOAA for the project:
Integrated Water and Land Planning as Climate Adaptation
Strategy: comparisons of Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona as a
co- PI with faculty at Portland State University (Oregon; Heejun
Chang, PI) and Arizona State University.
Economic Geography, announces that the 2008 ISI
impact factor ranked it fourth in geography and seventh in economics
journals.
Clark Labs' director Prof. Ronald Eastman is
authoring a
blog devoted to the exploration of trends in the earth system as
seen through the lens of the IDRISI's Earth Trends Modeler software.
More news
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The Polaris Project
Professor Karen Frey and undergraduate students Claire Griffin, Boyd Zapatka, and Katherine Willis
spent July in the Siberian Arctic working with the
Polaris Project.
Read the
Clarknews article.
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