Clark in the News

8/8 The Jewish Advocate brief "Student preserves Holocaust artifacts" mentions that Lindsay Danforth '09 spent her summer cataloging artifacts at the Hatikvah Education Center in Springfield, Mass. This was also reported on in the 8/13 Jewish Ledger (Mass) article "Clark University student has 'hands-on' history lesson at Hatikvah Center."

8/8 The Windsor Heights Herald (N.J.) article "A trip for a teacher, not a tourist: East Windsor woman, 18, works with young victims of Bosnian war" reports that International Development, Community and Environment major Margaret Kettles '11 spent six weeks working in a Bosnian orphanage and two weeks working at Friendship Camps in northern Bosnia, working to educate children of different Bosnian ethnic groups on cooperation and acceptance.

8/10 The Worcester Sunday Telegram & Gazette College Town section mentions that Chuck Wyatt, Web technical services manager, drove to Virginia for his summer vacation in his 25-year old, waste-vegatable oil run Mercedes Benz.

8/12 The Detroit News article "Chrysler wants four-day work schedule: It negotiates with UAW for plant change to save energy" includes quotes from management professor Gary Chaison.

8/13 The Worcester Magazine article "Opening Eyes, opening doors: Dynamy's Youth Academy is making an impact on Worcester youth" features Robert Rosales '12. Rosales took advantage of the after-school leadership and college access program offered by Dynamy and as a result of the mentoring and academic support was able to come to Clark on scholarship provided by the program.

8/18 President Bassett's support of the Amethyst Initiative, a petition to take a serious look at the nation's current legal drinking age in hopes of opening up dialogue about student binge drinking, appeared in Worcester Magazine, the T&G, the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, on WCVB-TV (Channel 5) and on NECN's Worcester News Tonight. Bassett's op-ed "Debate of drinking issue needed" ran in the 8/26 T&G. 

8/19 Biology professor and mycologist David Hibbett is interviewed by WBZ-TV (Channel 4) and WCVB-TV (Channel 5), both of Boston, regarding what he refers to as "the best summer he has ever seen for mushrooms" as a result of the unseasonably rainy weather.

8/21 A Mmegi Online (Botswana, Africa) article "The intellectuals must live up to expectation," reports on the second annual African Outreach Program that took place in Gaborone, Botswana, August 19-21. Several Clark faculty and administrators contributed to "Developing the African Continent: Who is in Charge?" including, President Bassett, associate provost and dean of graduate studies and research Nancy Budwig and economics professor Wayne Gray. Attiat Ott, economics research professor is helping to organize the conference.

8/22 The Worcester Business Journal article "Worcester colleges measure up" mentions that Clark rose from 80th to 86th on the U.S. News and World Report list of best colleges for 2009.

8/23 The Laramie Boomerang (WY) quotes geography professor Dominik Kulakowski in "Are we the next Yellowstone?" Kulakowski comments on forest fires in regards to pine beetle outbreaks.