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Seymour B. Sarason, Leader in Community Psychology, Dies at 91
The New York Times 02/08/2010
"Seymour B. Sarason, a psychologist whose groundbreaking work on social settings and their influence on individual problems helped establish the field of community psychology, died on Jan. 28 in New Haven. He was 91 and lived in Hamden, Conn. The author of more than 40 books, Dr. Sarason applied his insights on social psychology to a wide variety of issues that included the treatment of the mentally ill and retarded, educational reform, teacher training and care for the aged. . At Clark University in Worcester, Mass, he earned a master's degree in 1940 and a doctorate in clinical psychology in 1942."

Small loans, big ambitions
Worcester Sunday Telegram 02/07/2010
Microfinance class at Clark to help refugees in Worcester start businesses "In Jude Fernando's latest experiment, students at Clark University will help the Third World without leaving the city. The experiment is called socially responsible pedagogy, and it challenges Clark students to learn from the community immediately surrounding them. In the room, along with his 25 students, were refugees from Bhutan, Iraq, Liberia, Myanmar and other countries. To help these people, many of whom come from dangerous, war-torn environments, Mr. Fernando's class is teaming up with Lutheran Social Services of New England to launch a microfinance program. "

Freud's Friends and Enemies One Hundred Years Later
Psychology Today 02/04/2010
In this blog trilogy, Richard Shweder discusses Freud's Clark visit and the centennial celebration. "In 1909 Sigmund Freud visited the United States for the first and only time. He journeyed to Worchester, Massachusetts at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall, the president of Clark University, in connection with the 20th anniversary celebration of the founding of America's original graduate student only academic research institution. Speaking in German to a who's who of psychologists and other social scientists (many of whom would have been multilingual in those days) Freud delivered a series of now famous lectures on psychoanalysis. One hundred years later, on October 3, 2009, Clark University commemorated one of the most significant events in its history with a series of Freud centennial keynote addresses, answering the general question Does the Mind Still Matter?'" Part one: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cultural-commentary/201002/freuds-friends-and-enemies-one-hundred-years-later-part-1-0 Part two: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cultural-commentary/201002/freuds-friends-and-enemies-one-hundred-years-later-part-2 Part three: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cultural-commentary/201002/freuds-friends-and-enemies-one-hundred-years-later-part-3

A life honored for a dedication to doing right
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 02/03/2010
"If, in the course of her life, Edna Spencer rubs some people the wrong way, it isn't personal she has stood up countless times as a local community activist, saying no to segregation of the city's public schools, no to hate crimes, and no to housing and hiring discrimination. She has served on the local chapter of the NAACP (president), the Quinsigamond Community College board of trustees (first black woman to serve), Worcester YWCA (first black woman president), and several other boards, commissions and organizations in the city The racial handcuffs of the times didn't lock her down, didn't prevent her from getting an education Quinsigamond Community College and Clark University. "

Turkey changes course on Armenia
Asia Times 02/03/2010
"Professor Taner Akcam of Clark University in Massachusetts, a leading genocide scholar and one of the few Turkish historians to unequivocally affirm the Armenian genocide, rejects the Turkish government's argument that more context is needed to understand what happened in 1915 and says Turkey must understand that the historical debate "is over". Still, Akcam argues that the significance of the moment should not be overlooked The Turkish government may use the commission as a "face-saving operation", that is, to minimize blame as much as possible while communicating unknown, and unwelcome, facts to the Turkish public, said Akcam. "After 100 years of denial, you cannot suddenly say: 'Yes, it was a genocide.' Or, 'Yes, it was a crime.' You need a transition.""

Panel rates Obama's performance thus far
The Eastern Echo 02/03/2010
"A panel composed of professors discussed President Barack Obama's performance thus far Monday in the [Eastern Michigan University] Student Center Ballroom Dr Ravi Perry, a government professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., believes Obama is being scrutinized by the media. "We always grade the president on congressional achievement, but it is not his goal," he said. "I would give him a C grade because he is under the scrutiny of the media as the first black American president.""

GOP gains, but most states blue
The Washington Times 02/02/2010
"A Republican reality check: Democrats still dominate the nation despite the heavily symbolic victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown in Massachusetts, according to a Gallup poll that tracked the political leanings of more than 350,000 adults in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia Both political parties, and for that matter many journalists, can overinterpret the day's events, the short-term events,' said Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute of Public Enterprise at Clark University The American people didn't swing wildly to the left between 2004-2008. And they didn't swing wildly last year either. Americans are very pragmatic. Whether it's a Democratic label or Republican label before them, when they see someone effectively addressing their major concerns of the day, then they will lean that way,' "

Honors & Recognition
Seacoast Online (South Berwick, Maine) 02/01/2010
"Trista E. Myers: of South Berwick, Maine, was one of 11 Clark University undergraduates who was awarded a Steinbrecher Fellowship to support her creative research project this summer and throughout the 2009-2010 academic year. Myers used her Steinbrecher Fellowship to intern at Carsonified, a company whose mission is to bring the web community together to learn, converse and connect.' She is a 2006 graduate of Marshwood High School."

Last Night of the 2010 Festival of New American Plays Held Tonight
BroadwayWorld.com 02/01/2010
"The final performance in the 2010 Festival of New American Plays will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Firehouse Theatre, 1609 W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia This play is one of two finalists in this eighth annual national playwriting competition. The other finalist is The Jag' by Gino DiIorio. The Jag is about a father and son who enlist a quirky lesbian to help them fix up an old Jaguar. Mr. DiIorio is an award-winning playwright and teacher whose work has been produced off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. He is an associate professor of theatre at Clark University where he also serves as theatre program director."

Rabbi to the Rescue: Menachem Youlus
Washington Post 01/31/2010
" Clark University professor Deborah Dwork, co-author of a history of Auschwitz, says she has an allergic reaction' to the notion of a greater truth, because, she says, such tales can play into the hands of Holocaust deniers. For her, the historical record must be absolutely crystal clear. Anything that deviates from that one whit does the memory of the Holocaust a huge disservice,' she says. So why have so many of Youlus's customers accepted his dramatic rescue stories without evidence? Is it because he carries the title Rabbi'? Or is it because so many unimaginable things did happen during the Holocaust? "

Barry J. Walker
MetroWest Daily News 01/31/2010
"Barry J. Walker,BUZ. Age 73 of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, formerly of Framingham, MA, passed away peacefully on Thursday January 28, 2010 after a brief illness. A graduate of Worcester Academy, Clark University and Boston College Law School, Mr. Walker was a founding partner of the Bikofsky, Walker and Tuttle law firm in Framingham, MA. His accomplishments include a distinguished alumni award from Clark University; past president of Clark Alumni; past chairman of the Framingham State College Board of Trustees; an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Framingham State College; adjunct professor at Boston College Law School; and his proudest public service, his membership on the Massachusetts Child Support Commission."

Prop 8 witnesses debate scholarship on families
Keen News Service (national online) 01/30/2010
Star witnesses for both sides in the recent Proposition 8 trial agreed on one thing: Children of same-sex parents benefit from having two parents who are happily married to each other. Dr. Abbie Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clark University, recently published Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children (American Psychological Association: 2009), a book that compiles decades of research on the subject. Goldberg thinks Thompson was off-base in his quest for a control group of married, biological parents. "

Worth seeing: Jewish Home of Rochester's Resident Art Gallery
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 01/30/2010
"A 97-year-old artist at the Jewish Home of Rochester will have a painting exhibit this winter at the home's Resident Art Gallery. Faye Faber grew up in Worcester, Mass., where she cultivated a taste for painting at the Worcester Museum of Art. She graduated from high school at age 14 and earned a master's degree in history from Clark University at 18. Her exhibit runs through April 14 at 2021 S. Winton Road. "

Tribute Paid to Hrant Dink by Friends Group
Armenian Mirror-Spectator 01/30/2010
"On Sunday, January 24, the Friends of Hrant Dink organization marked the third anniversary of the assassination of Dink, the Turkish-Armenian editor of Agos newspaper in Istanbul, Turkey, with a memorial luncheon after church services in which prayers were offered for him at St. James Armenian Church. [Watertown, MA] After the Requiem service, the Association hosted a fellowship Hour at the church hall, during which, Dr. Taner Akam, director of the Armenian Studies program at Clark University and a friend of Hrant Dink, said the following: During one of my meetings with Hrant, I told him that he should be appointed the Honorary Ambassador of Turkey in Armenia, when the border opens. He replied by saying that he is really doing the ambassador's job by introducing the Armenian Genocide to the Turkish people and convincing Armenians to have relations with the Turks.'"

Williamstown native a finalist on 'The Bachelor'
The Berkshire Eagle 01/30/2010
"A hometown woman is one of five still in the running for the heart of The Bachelor.' Ali Fedotowsky, 25, who now lives in San Francisco, has avoided elimination through four episodes of the ABC television show, The Bachelor,' and now is among a select group of women waiting to know which one of them will win over Texas airline pilot Jake Pavelka Fedotowsky graduated from Mount Greylock Regional High School in 2002 and Clark University in Worcester in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in psychology."

Efficiency start-up bets on greener colleges
CNET news (CBS Interactive) 01/28/2010
Long-time energy efficiency professional Rob Pratt created a company to tap into the energy on college campuses around the environment. Energy Climate Solutions, which formally launched on Thursday, was set up to offer energy efficiency and clean-energy services to colleges and universities, organizations typically well suited to invest in efficiency. The Waltham, Mass.-based company, which has started working with Babson University and Clark University, is offering services to help colleges create a strategy to lower energy consumption through investments in energy-efficiency and potentially renewable energy. "

Dynamic New Clean Energy Company Emerges
EarthTimes 01/28/2010
"EnergyClimate Solutions (ECS), a new company led by Massachusetts clean energy and environmental leaders, has emerged to assist the state's colleges and universities to substantially reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. ECS is working with Babson College in Wellesley and Clark University in Worcester Clark University faculty, staff and students are very actively engaged in initiatives to promote environmental sustainability,' said Clark University Provost and President-Elect David Angel. "

Leading by example is lauded
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 01/28/2010
"Armed with a bag of management books that she tucked behind the lectern, school Superintendent Melinda J. Boone told her audience at Clark University yesterday that in addition to all of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s accomplishments, he was also ahead of his time when it came to leadership Ms. Boone spoke as part of the university's celebration of the civil rights leader's life"

5 Unique Ways to Go Green if You're Living in a Dorm
US News & World Report 01/28/2010
"College is often termed the best years of your life. Now, recent trends suggest that it is also becoming pretty green. A growing number of colleges and universities are seeking ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects.And when the term's over, think about selling your wares through sites like Craigslist or eBay instead of leaving them in front of the dumpster. Many schools, such as Clark University and Lafayette College, also have relationships with donor centers and set up on-campus donation sites so you can give those pesky futons and air conditioners to a new home when it's move-out time. "

Concert this weekend raises money for Haiti
MetroWest Daily News 01/27/2010
"Symphony Pro Musica will hold its second concert of its 27th season this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Hudson High School. And along with playing music, the orchestra is also holding a fundraiser to help victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti Bruckner scholar Benjamin Korstvedt, Jeppson Professor of Music at Clark University, will give a lecture an hour before the concert; all are welcome to attend."

Democrats ponder how to take down Scott Brown
Politico 01/27/2010
"While the dust has barely settled from Scott Brown's miracle win in Massachusetts, shellshocked Bay State Democrats have begun pondering how to upend the newly minted GOP star when he stands for reelection in 2012 "I do have to think that Mike Capuano is sitting in his living room steaming, thinking, I would've had this,'" said Jim Gomes, a former aide to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Gomes, who now heads the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University in Worcester, said Capuano already possesses the natural instincts that would neutralize Brown's perceived strengths."

Word sounds can mislead bargain hunters: study
The Windsor Star (Canada) 01/26/2010
"Think you hear a hot deal? Your ears and brain may be deceiving you, new research shows Certain consonants and vowel sounds convey a sense of "smallness" while others suggest "bigness" to our brains, and a new study shows this gives consumers a misleading sense of the bargain when they comparison-shop for items with prices containing those sounds "The sounds themselves convey largeness or smallness," says Keith Coulter, an associate professor of marketing at Clark University in Massachusetts."

City manager expands, remixes energy task force
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 01/25/2010
"City Manager Michael V. O'Brien has reconstituted and expanded the energy task force he originally appointed in 2006, as called for in the city's Climate Action Plan. New members appointed to the task force are: Sara Assefa, a resident [Clark Class of 2007]; Vincent DeVito, a lawyer with Bowditch & Dewey and director of the Institute for Energy and Sustainability; Lance McKee, a resident; Chris Noonan, a resident [Clark ES&P graduate student]; and John Odell, the city's program manager for energy efficiency and conservation. Also, JoAnne O'Leary, communications representative for NSTAR; Stephen F. O'Neil, administrator, Worcester Regional Transit Authority; District 4 City Councilor Barbara G. Haller; Dave Schmidt, sustainability officer for Clark University; and Karen Valentine Goins, a resident. "

Sri Lankan presidential election sparks fears of rising violence
The Guardian (UK) 01/24/2010
" Prominent Sri Lankan blogger Jude Fernando called on Tamils to back the former army chief. Whether or not Fonseka can win, if we work to increase the number of votes he receives, we can hope for a stronger opposition in the future, and we can successfully expand the space for democracy,' he said. We can make it more likely that one day we will be able to hold the ruling party accountable, and we can exert pressure to make the next general election much more just and fair.' " Fernando is associate professor in Clark's IDCE department.

Leaders with vision - T&G honors builders of community
Worcester Sunday Telegram 01/24/2010
From the lead editorial: "Since 1991, the Telegram & Gazette has held its annual Visions community awards program to recognize individuals and organizations for their contributions to the social, educational, economic and cultural life of the greater Worcester community. The talents of these leaders exemplify the uniting of dreams and hard work essential to making the city and surrounding region a stronger and better place. Exemplifying this community engagement are John and Kay Bassett of Clark University, recipients of the Isaiah Thomas Award for 2009. "

Their vision rewarded - Bassetts honored as Citizens of the Year
Worcester Sunday Telegram 01/24/2010
"When John E. Bassett became president of Clark University 10 years ago, there was no shortage of opportunities for him and his wife, Kay, to involve themselves in the community. Clark already had strong ties to Main South, thanks to Mr. Bassett's predecessor, Richard P. Traina, and Mrs. Bassett was deluged with offers. In recognition of all they have done, the Bassetts have been named the 2009 recipient of the Telegram & Gazette's Isaiah Thomas Citizens of the Year Award. They and four other winners of the T&G's Visions Awards will be honored at 4 p.m. Feb. 9 at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Worcester. "

Can Auschwitz Be Saved?
Smithsonian magazine (Feb. issue) 01/23/2010
"Liberated 65 years ago, the Nazi concentration camp is one of Eastern Europe's most visited sitesand most fragile. Since the beginning of the war, special SS units called Einsatzgruppen had carried out mass executions of Jews and others in conquered territories; these commandos rounded up entire villages, forced them to dig their own graves and shot them. The massacres took a toll even on the German firing squads, says Debrah Dwork, a Holocaust historian at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and co-author (with van Pelt) of Holocaust: A History.' "

Unions See Members Fall by 10%
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2010
"Organized labor lost 10% of its members in the private sector last year, the largest decline in more than 25 years. The drop is on par with the fall in total employment but threatens to significantly constrain unions' ability to influence elections and legislation. When times are bad they lose members, and when times are good they don't recoup those members,' said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "

Assumption, Clark plan Haiti fundraisers
Worcester Telegram 01/23/2010
"Assumption College and Clark University are raising money for Haiti through a variety of events. At Clark, upcoming events that will raise money for Haiti and which are open to the public include: a "Concert for Haiti" tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Grind in the Higgins University Center. Students have already collected donations at home athletic events and will continue to collect at campus events. They also plan to sell raffle tickets starting Thursday. Also at Clark, President John E. Bassett and David P. Angel have created the Haiti Relief Initiative to address short- and long-term challenges in Haiti."

Former Pats cheerleader from Stoneham looks to return to Super Bowl
The Stoneham Sun (MA) 01/22/2010
"Stoneham native Elizabeth Hanson went to the Super Bowl several years ago as a cheerleader for the New England Patriots and she's hoping for a return to the big game this February, with a little help from her hometown. An aspiring actress these days, Hanson is featured in a Doritos advertisement Hanson was studying communications and women's studies at Clark University in Worcester, with the goal of pursuing a career in broadcasting. She even had an internship at a broadcasting company in Washington, D.C., after college, but decided to pursue acting instead. "

Small Sounds, Big Deals: How Do Number Sounds Influence Consumers?
Science Daily 01/21/2010
"Consumers remember the sounds of numbers in prices and associate certain sounds with value, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Keith S. Coulter (Clark University) and Robin A. Coulter (University of Connecticut) studied the ability of number-sounds to convey meaning and influence price perceptions. " This item, first reported in the New York Times (1/18) also was carried in Eureka! Science News, Small Business News, PhysOrg.com, DailyIndia.com; RedOrbit, and many others.

Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
WCTR Charter TV3 'Wake Up Worcester' 01/20/2010
Ravi Perry, assistant professor of government, Clark University, was interviewed about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on 'Wake Up Worcster,' broadcast on Charter TV-3 and is also heard on AM 830 WCRN. Viewing is available on demand to Charter Communications cable TV subscribers.

Labor Agenda in Doubt as Republican Wins Senate Seat
Bloomberg 01/20/2010
Labor leaders, who spent the first year of Barack Obama's presidency taking advantage of renewed influence in Washington, may struggle to achieve their agenda after Republican Scott Brown won a Senate seat in Massachusetts. Labor is the real loser in last night's election,' said Gary Chaison, an industrial relations professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in an interview today. "

Consultants to aid entrepreneurs
Worcester Telegram 01/20/2010
"The Martin Luther King Jr. Business Empowerment Center and Clark University's Graduate School of Management have formed a collaboration in which Clark MBA students will work as business development consultants with people who want to start their own businesses. "

New Presidents or Provosts
Inside Higher Ed 01/20/2010
"David P. Angel, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark University, in Massachusetts, has been named president there."

Turnout heavy in crucial Massachusetts Senate poll
Reuters 01/19/2010
"Massachusetts voters streamed to the polls in large numbers on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election for a new U.S. senator that could derail Democrats' dominance in Washington and scuttle President Barack Obama's top priority of sweeping healthcare reform. There's an anger, a frustration that's being felt in Massachusetts,' said James Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University in Massachusetts." The Reuters article also appeared in was Also ran New York Times Canada.com, The National Post (Canada) Irish Times, Daily Nation, euronews.com, Post Chronicle; U.S. Daily.com, Buenos Aires Herald and many more media outlets.

$2.22? Gosh, That Sounds Expensive
The New York Times 01/18/2010
"Researchers have known for 80 years about a symbolic connection between speech and size: back-of-the-mouth vowels like the "o" in "two" make people think of large sizes, whereas people associate front-of-the-mouth vowels like "ee" with diminutiveness. Marketers can use this effect to make consumers think a discount is bigger or smaller than it truly is, according to a study soon to be published in The Journal of Consumer Research by Keith Coulter of Clark University and Robin Coulter of the University of Connecticut. " This article was published in many media outlets, including CNBC's "Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers' Price Perceptions."

Democrats' 60 hangs by thread
The Hill - Washington, D.C. 01/18/2010
"Democrats pulled out all the stops in Massachusetts on Monday but are bracing for a loss in Tuesday's special election. Jim Gomes, a former staffer for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), said Brown has all the momentum on his side, and it will be a matter of how much better the Democratic turnout operation is than its counterpart. "

Worcester's Slideways Looks Forward
Worcester Business Journal 01/18/2010
"Like Tom Doody, president of Component Systems, which I featured in the last Industrial Strength column, Tom Sioui, co-founder of Slideways Inc. in Worcester, is on the cutting edge of modern manufacturing. But as Slideways grew, it needed help, and the company got it from Inner City Entrepreneurs, the Service Corps of Retired Executives and the Small Business Development Center at Clark University. "

Wired on Wall Street: Trader Betrays a Friend
Wall Street Journal 01/16/2010
"In the movie "Wall Street," Bud Fox wears a body wire and gets his partner arrested for insider trading. David Slaine has done that in real life. For more than a year, Mr. Slaine, a senior Wall Street trader, was a government mole who wore a wire strapped to his torso, helping prosecutors to build the biggest insider-trading case in two decades. Mr. Slaine's behind-the-scenes role is especially significant because of his extensive contacts on Wall Street. He is a former Nasdaq trading chief at Morgan Stanley, who also traded at Jefferies Group, Galleon and Oracle Partners, a health-care hedge fund. Mr. Slaine grew up in Malden, Mass., where he played high-school basketball and football, then attended Clark University in Worcester. "

Obama to campaign for Massachusetts Democrat
Reuters 01/15/2010
"U.S. President Barack Obama will campaign in Massachusetts on Sunday for a Senate Democratic candidate facing a tough fight in a race with potential implications for the national healthcare debate. Survey methodology might be skewed by factors related to the unusual, out-of-season election, said James Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. All the polls are using slightly different screens on who the likely voters are,' Gomes said. "

Local College Student Narrowly Misses Earthquake in Haiti
abc40 & Fox 6 WGGB-TV (Springfield, MA) 01/14/2010
"A local college student is thankful to be alive after getting out of Haiti just hours before the devastating earthquake struck. Amanda Mundt lives in Amherst. She's a student at Clark University in Worcester. Mundt is part of the non-profit organization called "Opportunities for Communities" which helps educate the poor. She spent 10 days in Haiti from January 2nd through the 12th. Mundt was in Les Cayes. " Mundt '13 is a Making a Difference Scholar at Clark.

Outside groups fund attack ads
Boston Globe 01/14/2010
Outside interest groups are springing up on a daily basis to dump huge sums of money into the US Senate race, funding negative television ads that seek to tip the race in its closing hours. We haven't seen this before in Massachusetts, because we haven't had a competitive Senate race since 1996,'' said Robert Boatright, a Clark University professor of government with a focus on campaign finance issues. The proliferation of well-funded interest groups and the effect of the Internet has changed the dynamic since then, he said. "

Pope Pius XII: Not a saint
Worcester Telegram 01/14/2010
From an "As I See It" op-ed commentary by historian John O'Toole: "In a recent article (Holocaust expert at Clark blasts action on wartime Pope Pius,' Telegram & Gazette, Jan. 5), the director of Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, professor Deborah Dwork, along with the Anti-Defamation League's Rabbi Eric Greenberg, expressed shock and outrage at the recent action of Pope Benedict XVI, in formally putting in motion a process which will in all likelihood result in the eventual canonization of Pope Pius XII. While many Jews in America and elsewhere view Pope Benedict's action with particular bitterness, countless others especially those with at least a basic knowledge of the Holocaust also oppose this initiative. "

Worcesteria
Worcester Magazine 01/14/2010
"ALL THE REAL GIRLS: Clark University's name has always been linked with great thinkers like Sigmund Freud and Robert Goddard, but the school might be starting to make a name for itself with its output of reality television stars. Top Chef host and 1992 Clark grad Padma Lakshmi has been with the show since 2006, and this season's The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love features Ali Fedotowsky, a Williamstown native and 2006 Clarkie. Sources who watch the show say she's off to a strong start despite meeting the bachelor after losing her voice."

Governor goes to school
Worcester Telegram 01/13/2010
"University Park offers something to think about - Gov. Deval L. Patrick sorted polynomials, discussed slave songs, pondered the characteristics of cells, and, oh yeah, spoke a bit about education reform yesterday as he made his first visit to University Park Campus School. The small school, often called one of the jewels in Worcester's system and run in partnership with Clark University, serves Grades 7 through 12 and has gained national fame for getting inner-city students ready for college. "

Gov. Patrick pushes education reform in Worcester
New England Cable Network (Worcester News Tonight) 01/12/2010
"Education reform was on Governor Deval Patrick's agenda today. The governor made a stop at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, highlighting some of the aspects of a reform bill making its way through..."

The Worcester Chamber Music Society
Vitality Magazine (Volume 13) 01/11/2010
"The Worcester Chamber Music Society is a relatively new addition to the area's cultural mix. Please tell me about how it started. What formed the nucleus of the group? Tracy Kraus (Executive Director & viola): Peter and I are on the faculty at Clark University; for a couple years we'd pass each other in the halls and say, Maybe we should start something.' Just chitchat at first, but then we played a concert together and afterwards at the reception, Peter said, OK, it's time to make this happen.' This was five years ago"

Gays, Blackwater, and aborigines?
Keen News Service 01/09/2010
"What do gay political icon Harvey Milk, anti-gay marriage activist Maggie Gallagher, controversial military contractor Blackwater, and the Walibiri aborigines of Central Australia have in common? All are cited in the 3,001 exhibits filed by supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, for inclusion in the trial challenging that law. Dr. Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Massachusetts and author of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children (2009) ..."

Catholic league: Attack on Pius XII is Unseemly
Catholic Online 01/07/2010
"Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article by Deborah Dwork and Eric Greenberg criticizing the Catholic Church for pursuing the cause of sainthood for Pope Pius XII; it is published on the website of today's Philadelphia Inquirer: Deborah Dwork is a specialist in Holocaust studies at Clark University, and Rabbi Eric Greenberg is the director of interfaith policy for the ADL. "

Wake Up Worcester: President-elect David Angel
Charter TV-3 01/06/2010
Clark Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs is interviewed about the University's future and his selection to become the next Clark president. "Wake Up Worcester" is a daily televised talk show focusing on "the people who are having an impact on Central Massachusetts." The segments also air on AM 830 WCRN radio. Video available to subscribers through Charter on Demand.

Clark has a keeper
Worcester Telegram Sports cover 01/06/2010
"Occasionally, Mitch Renshaw will feel a little weak and have to excuse himself from practice. He'll duck over to the bench, where he keeps a packet of ground glucose pills handy. Within about five minutes of taking them, though, he's back on the Kneller Athletic Center basketball court and going hard again. Renshaw, Clark's starting sophomore center, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 11. But having diabetes has never held me back,' said Renshaw, a Rutland resident who played high school ball at Wachusett Regional. "

Holocaust expert at Clark blasts action on Pius
Worcester Telegram 01/05/2010
WWII history clouds step toward sainthood "The director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University yesterday harshly criticized Pope Benedict XVI's recent decision to move Pope Pius XII closer to sainthood charging that the controversial World War II-era pontiff does not deserve to be canonized because he inhumanely turned a blind eye to the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews. Deborah Dwork, a nationally recognized researcher of the Holocaust and author of several books on the subject, joined Rabbi Eric Greenberg, director of interfaith policy at the Anti-Defamation League, in penning an opinion-editorial page piece "

Church's misguided honor
Philadelphia Inquirer – Commentary 01/05/2010
In an opinion piece subtitled "Moving to canonize a World War II-era pope amounts to an attack on Jews," Debrah Dwork, director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and Rabbi Eric Greenberg, director of interfaith policy at the Anti-Defamation League, write: "Pope Benedict XVI surprised both Christians and Jews last month when he signed a decree of heroic virtue' for the World War II era's Pope Pius XII. Granted in recognition of a saintly life,' the decree earns Pius the appellation "venerable" and opens the way to his beatification and, ultimately, his elevation to sainthood. A saintly life? Hardly. "

Healing notes: Pianist hopes to add joy, comfort to residents’ daily lives
Longmont Times-Call (CO) 01/05/2010
Even when you're in a bad mood, once she starts playing, you just can't be.' Her music touches the soul.' These and other warmly shared responses are how seniors at the Lafayette Senior Center, and at homes and centers all across the Front Range, describe the entertainment Preethi Burkholder provides with her music. Growing up in Sri Lanka, Burkholder fell in love with music at an early age. and has become an accomplished classical pianist. At 20, Burkholder received a full-tuition scholarship to Clark University in Worcester, Mass.; later, she received a full scholarship to continue her ethnomusicology studies at Tufts University in Boston. It was during her student years that she discovered her calling to use music for healing through entertaining. "

Research Supports Gay and Lesbian Parenting
About.com: Lesbian Life 01/05/2010
"Interview with Lesbian and Gay Parenting Expert - How does being raised by gay and lesbian parents affect children? There have been a lot of studies on gay and lesbian parents and for the first time, a new book analyzes those studies and puts their key findings in one place. Dr Abbie Goldberg is the author of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle' published by The American Psychological Association. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. Her book is an overview of the many studies that have been done on gay and lesbian families and she hopes it will be used to influence public policy. "

Taner Akcam in Lebanon for Lectures
Armenian Weekly 01/04/2010
"ANTELIAS, LebanonProf. Taner Akam, author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, visited the Armenian Catholicosate at Antelias on Jan. 3. The Turkish Historian's visit will last for five days, during which he will give lectures and meet with Armenian intellectuals and university students. His first lecture, titled The Turkish Recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Turkish National Security,' will be held on Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Catholicosate in Antelias. "

Career Development & Education
Boston Sunday Globe 01/03/2010
The Career Development & Education supplement article "Self-Designed Degrees" includes comments by Clark Associate Dean of Academic Advising Kevin McKenna: Another feature in the section, titled "A Revolution in Social Networking," features remarks by photography instructor Stephen DiRado and Robert J.S. Ross, professor of sociology. A photo of a Clark student working at a computer is included. (Not available online.)

Love's new frontier
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine 01/01/2010
"It's not monogamy. But it's not cheating or polygamy, either. It's called polyamory, and with hundreds practicing the lifestyle in and around Boston, is liberal Massachusetts ready to accept it? Women may face more criticism for living a polyamorous lifestyle, according to Valerie Sperling, professor of women's and gender studies at Clark University in Worcester. This is a hot-button issue for women,' Sperling says, and if a woman is out as having two or more boyfriends, people might label her oversexed, versus the boys will be boys' idea that kicks in when men have sex with lots of women. ' "

Pope Pius: no friend of the Jews
New York Post (Letters) 01/01/2010
The Post published a letter to the editor by Clark professor of history Debrah Dwork, director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: "The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to move World War II-era Pope Pius XII a step closer to sainthood is a step in the wrong direction. Pius XII has now earned the appellation venerable' and is on his way to beatification and sainthood. Historical facts do not justify this designation. " Dwork's comments are included in several reports and blogs, including Ynet News (1/1) The Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Telegraph Agency (12/30).

Clark panel names Angel
Worcester Telegram 12/31/2009
"The search committee tasked with finding a replacement for Clark University President John E. Bassett was prepared to search far and wide for a successor. Three months after Mr. Bassett announced he would be leaving Clark, however, the committee has ended its search, right on the university's campus. David P. Angel, provost and vice president for academic affairs, was the sole candidate evaluated for Clark's presidency, and will take over the top leadership role in July. "

Clark University names provost as next president
Boston Globe 12/30/2009
"David P. Angel, Clark University's provost and vice president of academic affairs, was named the ninth president of the college today. ..." Clark's release to the PR Newswire was picked up by the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News and dozens of other network TV, radio and online affiliates and business news outlets across the country.

County flavor to 'Bachelor'
New England Newspapers (Berkshire Eagle) 12/29/2009
"The next installment of The Bachelor' will contain a bit of the Berkshires. When the hit television show premieres Monday at 8 p.m., North County native Ali Fedotowsky will appear in the 14th season of the ABC reality show, subtitled, On the Wings of Love.' Fedotowsky graduated from Clark in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a 4.1 grade average. She now is an advertising account manager for Facebook. "

Bankers: There's Money To Be Lent In 2010
Worcester Business Journal 12/27/2009
"Despite the widespread belief that 2009 was a bad year to start or expand a business, that's not the standpoint of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network at Clark University in Worcester. "

Stimulus strategy is assessed
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/27/2009
"Stop-gap measures questioned in face of stubborn economy Ten months after President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package into law, the Worcester area's more than $165 million portion of the aid is in full swing, paying for a variety of projects Other schools, such as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University, also received funding for research projects. At Clark, more than $674,000 is being used to study a range of projects, including the transition to adoptive parenthood for lesbian couples and why Latino men under-utilize depression treatments. "

Vatican assailed for rushing Pius sainthood
Jewish Advocate 12/23/2009
"Why is Pope Benedict XVI hastening the process to have Holocaust era Pope Pius XII named a saint? Last weekend's Vatican move has angered Jews and surprised even some Catholic leaders. Deborah Dwork, director of the Clark University Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, had strong words for the pope. "

Clark students study ice storm’s effects on local forest
The Landmark (Holden, MA) 12/23/2009
"Take one geography professor, add a Ph.D. student of geography and finish the recipe with several eager undergraduates looking forward to doing research in Paxton and what do you have? A group of smart young people from Clark University seeking answers to the question, what damage was done to local vegetation during the ice storm of 2008?' [doctoral student Zachary] Christman is working closely with geography professor John Rogan. They take daily digital pictures of the area via satellite to determine if the vegetation is increasing or decreasing over time. "

East of Auschwitz
The Jewish Week 12/22/2009
" Timothy Snyder, a young Yale historian attracting much attention, suggests that The focus on Auschwitz and death camps in general distorts the picture of how most Jews were actually killed, he says. Snyder will publish a new book next fall placing the Holocaust in the broader context of mass killings under both Hitler's and Stalin's reigns. You shouldn't play the numbers game,' said Deborah Dwork, professor of Holocaust history at Clark University and a co-author with Van Pelt. All credit to Snyder for highlighting the Germans' general plan,' she said, adding that though the death camps do not represent the majority of Jewish deaths, they exemplify the Final Solution. .."

Shop Talk: Q&A with John Bassett, Clark University
Worcester Business Journal 12/21/2009
"John Bassett didn't know what he wanted to do when he retired as president of Clark University. He envisioned himself doing some consulting and perhaps working for a foundation. He definitely didn't plan on being the president of another college. But that is, in fact, exactly what he's going to do. After he finishes at Clark in June 2009, he'll be headed west to the state of Washington to run a small college called Heritage University. Here, Bassett discusses his decision to leave Clark as well as the main reason he thinks Worcester has struggled with economic development. "

Grad Rates Roil Local Colleges
Worcester Business Journal 12/21/2009
According to federal statistics, fewer than half of the students in the United States who start college end up graduating. That's a problem, according to some education officials. But many in the field, and in Central Massachusetts, are calling for the way graduation rates are measured by the federal government to be changed. Clark University, which has a reported four-year graduation rate of 67 percent, also keeps a keen eye out for trouble. We are very student-centered at Clark," said Denise Darrigrand, dean of students at Clark. "We work with them individually as much as possible, and try to anticipate issues.' "

Akcam: Beyond Roadmaps and Protocols
Armenian Weekly 12/21/2009
Subtitled "Opportunities in Turkey's Path to Peace with Armenians," the weekly features an article by Clark associate professor of history Taner Akcam that was written for an American audience in spring 2009. Akcam writes: "When I penned it, there was no sign on the horizon of a rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey. I haven't changed anything in the article, since recent developments are only a confirmation of what I had suggested last spring.The purpose of this article was to give a general overview of the Armenian-Turkish conflict and to show where the opportunities lay for a chance. "

Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
New York Times 12/21/2009
" For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready. But recent research has turned that assumption on its head If children have games and activities that demonstrate the relationship between numbers, then quantity becomes a physical experience,' said Sharon Griffin, a psychologist at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who found in a series of careful studies that a curriculum she devised, called Number Worlds, raised the scores of children who lagged in math. " This article also ran in The Dallas Morning News and several other media outlets.

The Business Beat: John and Kay Bassett
WICN/90.5 FM & WICN.org 12/20/2009
"John Bassett will relocate to Heritage University in Washington State following his retirement in June 2010 as president of Clark University in Worcester. " The Business Beat host Steve D'Agostino talks with John and Kay Bassett about the advances made and challenges met during John Bassett's decade at the helm of Clark. To listen, online, click here: http://wicn.org/audio/the-business-beat-john-and-kay-bassett.

Homecoming- Students Reconnect with Parents at Break
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/18/2009
Clark's Dean of Students Denise Darrigrand, research professor of psychology Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, and 5th-year MSPC student and Class of 2009 alumna Nell Strizich contributed to a front-page feature about first-year students returning home for the holidays. "Students have changed. Parents expect the student that left to return, but they are different people when they go home," Darrigrand said. Jensen Arnett: "It really does require an adjustment from everybody. The child is not a child anymore. They have reached a new stage in life." Jensen Arnett is an expert in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and coined the term "emerging adult" to define the 18-to-25-year-old group. Strizich said that "living on her own had allowed her to communicate with her parents more as a peer than as a child."

This Kennedy wants to cut government
Boston Globe 12/18/2009
" Meet Joseph Lewis Kennedy, who wants to be your next US senator. Kennedy, a 38-year-old information technology executive from Dedham, is waging a quixotic independent bid for the seat that became vacant when Edward M. Kennedy (no relation) died in August. He is an active Libertarian and advocates a diminished role for the federal government. He spent much of his childhood in Worcester, graduated from Clark University, and is now running for US Senate because he says neither major political party ..."

Worcester moves to become cleantech hub
Mass High Tech 12/17/2009
"Cleantech leaders in Central Massachusetts are looking toward their biotech brethren in Worcester as a model for bringing more industry development to the region. DeVito's group already has strong support from the two major technology universities in the area, Clark University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as well as U.S. Rep. James McGovern, who represents much of the area in Congress. WPI is well known for its research in fuel cells, with a lab targeted for state funding in the Green Jobs Act of 2008, and Clark's expertise in the physical sciences has produced several clean energy patents. "

UAW will likely nominate VP for Gettelfinger's top spot
Detroit Free Press 12/16/2009
"UAW's leaders are expected to pick UAW vice president Bob King as their nominee today to lead the union over the next four years after Ron Gettelfinger retires next summer. Ron Gettelfinger will be trying to keep his legacy intact,' as union leaders meet today in Dearborn, said Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Part of that depends on selecting a successor.' ..." The article also ran in Business Week and Knight Ridder/Tribune news service, among others.

Clark plans a green future
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/16/2009
Clark President John Bassett, Dave Schmidt, Campus Sustainability Coordinator, and Suzanne Edmunds, a Clark junior majoring in Environmental Science & Policy, are interviewed as part of a front-page feature subtitled, "University to be carbon neutral." The article begins, "As part of a nationwide initiative by more than 650 colleges, Clark University yesterday pledged that its campus will be carbon neutral' by 2030. "

Men Suffer in Silence
Staten Island Advance (NY) 12/15/2009
Subtitle: Because of the stigma attached, many males battling depression mask the problem " Men are taught that emotional problems are kept to yourself,' added Dr. Michael Addis, a professor of psychology at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and lead investigator of the university's Men's Coping Project, a study investigating how men experience depression differently than women. "

Rounds appoints Notre Dame professor to Science and Technology board
Rapid City Journal (SD) 12/15/2009
"Ani Aprahamian [BA '80/PhD '86], a University of Notre Dame professor of experimental nuclear physics, has been appointed to a position on the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, according to Gov. Mike Rounds. Aprahamian holds a doctorate from Clark University. She is a former member of DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee and a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has received many scientific honors and awards, and has numerous widely published scientific papers on questions in nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics."

Padma Lakshmi’s jewelry connects mini milestones
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/15/2009
"The inside of Padma Lakshmi's jewelry box tells a bit about the model-turned-TV host-turned-entrepreneur: Theres the traditional Indian handpiece, the 85-inch Fred Leighton diamond strand necklace and the workhorse diamond stud earrings she reaches. ... Lakshmi was born in India, raised part time in the United States and graduated from Clark University in Worcester in 1992. "

Retired judge has lessons for today's youth
The Tennessean 12/13/2009
"Even over the telephone, you can hear the passion in the 67-year-old man's voice. You can even feel the fire still burning in him. He holds nothing back. And he has no problem telling it like he sees it. That's D'Army Bailey, a retired Shelby County Circuit Court judge whose recently published book, The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, 1959-1964, offers a rare insider's account from the front lines of the student protest movement during the early 1960s.' In the book, the Memphis native details his experiences at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., a school from which he was expelled for his involvement in the movement, and at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., which then offered him a scholarship established for civil rights activists. "

Re: Will Big Business Save the Earth?
New York Times (Letters) 12/13/2009
In response to an Op-Ed (Dec. 6), Halina Szejnwald Brown, Clark professor of environmental science and policy, writes: Jared Diamond's argument that big, socially responsible companies can do good things for the environment makes eminent sense as long as it is read in the context of a certain unspoken assumption: that drinking Coca-Cola, purchasing lots of cheaply made goods and generally getting as much stuff as one can possibly afford are expressions of a high standard of living and quality of life. But what if we discover that we can have a high quality of life without Coca-Cola and mountains of all that other stuff? Wouldn't that make all the good works of Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Chevron totally irrelevant?

School closures an idea
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/12/2009
" The bureau would like to see the city school district develop as a strategy a more regular process of closing down lower performing schools and opening up new schools,' said Stephen D. Eide, a research associate with the bureau who did most of the research for the report, Race to the Top: What's the Winning Strategy?' The school he holds up as a model, University Park Campus School, is a Grades 7-12 school with about 230 students and is a collaboration between the school district and Clark University. "

One Year Ago: Storm Claims Power and Trees
Worcester Telegram 12/11/2009
"For many people who lived through last year's ice storm, the most vivid memory of the early morning hours that Friday is the gunfire-like sound caused by trees cracking and crashing to the ground. John M. Rogan, an associate professor of geography at Clark University in Worcester, who specializes in landscape ecology, said he went to Moore State Park in Paxton just after the storm hit and he was surprised by the amount of damage the inch-thick ice caused, primarily to oak and maple trees. ..."

Guzman sworn as District Court judge
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/11/2009
"Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray told a brief story before formally swearing in the newest associate justice of Dudley District Court yesterday. Someone suggested he seek the counsel of a more experienced lawyer, Margaret R. Guzman [Clark BA 89], then with the state Committee for Public Counsel Services in Worcester and a supervising lawyer for the local bar advocate program. She's going to be a great judge, as she's been a great lawyer,' the lieutenant governor said of Judge Guzman before officially administering the oath of office during a ceremony yesterday afternoon at the Worcester Trial Court. Ms. Guzman, a Clark University and Boston University Law School graduate, was appointed to the bench in July after 17 years as a public defender and criminal defense lawyer in private practice. "

Clark U. vetting internal candidate for president
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 12/11/2009
"Clark University is checking for a new president within its gates before embarking on a national search to replace outgoing President John Bassett. David P. Angel, the university's provost who has spent his career at Clark, is a strong internal candidate,' according to William S. Mosakowski, chairman of the university's board of trustees and chairman of the advisory committee that is vetting Mr. Angel. The process includes meeting with a range of campus constituencies who will give feedback to the advisory committee, Mr. Mosakowski said. ..."

In Brief This Week: Roche Diagnostics; Nuclea Diagnostic Laboratories
GenomeWeb Daily News 12/11/2009
Nuclea Diagnostic Laboratories has received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists for its diagnostic lab operations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The firm carries out molecular pathology testing services at the lab.

Coakley, Brown to Battle in Massachusetts U.S. Senate Election
Bloomberg.com 12/09/2009
"Democrat Martha Coakley will square off against Republican Scott Brown in a special election early next year in Massachusetts for the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. Personal attacks and negative ads were absent from the more-crowded Democratic primary campaign largely because the four candidates were ideologically similar, said Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. "

Massachusetts Picks Senate Candidates
Wall Street Journal 12/09/2009
"Two veteran state politicians favored to win their party's nominations in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy were victorious Tuesday night. Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, a policy research group at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said public interest in filling the seat with someone like Mr. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 after a bout with brain cancer, faded after the senator's wife and other family members declined to enter the race. I have not sensed the voters of Massachusetts looking at this election to find the nearest replica of Sen. Kennedy,' he said. "

Panel Discussion on Armenia-Turkey Protocols Held at Clark University
Armenian Weekly 12/08/2009
"A panel of experts gathered at Clark University on Fri., Dec. 4 to discuss the protocols proposed as part of the effort to normalize political relations between the Republics of Armenia and Turkey. George Aghjayan of the Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Central Massachusetts served as moderator. The speakers included Professors Taner Akcam, Clark University; Asbed Kotchikian, Bentley University; and Henry C. Theriault, Worcester State College. Clark's Kaloosdian-Mugar Professor of Armenian Genocide Studies was the main sponsor, The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies presented the panel and Director Debrah Dwork opened by reminding the audience that the center's public service is directed toward building a more peaceful future through reconciliation and rectification of historic injustices. "

Massachusetts Senate Candidates’ Final Push
CQPolitics.com 12/08/2009
"The four Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race have been scrambling to rally a largely indifferent electorate to go to the polls for Tuesday's special election primary. It's not a race that's generating a great deal of buzz and electricity,' said Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "

Classical pianist plays music to soothe ailing seniors
Denver Post 12/07/2009
"Preethi Burkholder, a classically trained pianist and music therapist, provides what she calls Burkholder was introduced early in life to Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, and started playing the piano at age 5 in her native Sri Lanka. By age 20, she was an accomplished classical pianist. She was awarded a full scholarship to study music at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., earned a master's degree in ethnomusicology from Tufts University, in Boston, and spent a summer playing at the Aspen Music Festival. "

Hudson Taylor Armerding, 1918-2009: Wheaton president …
Chicago Tribune 12/07/2009
"Despite Hudson Taylor Armerding's military experience as a naval officer during World War II, the longtime Wheaton College president tapped his gentle spirit and his deep faith in God to reach out to students during the turbulent times of war protests on campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He earned an undergraduate degree in history from Wheaton in 1941 and received a master's degree in international affairs from Clark University in 1942." Armerding's death was also reported in the Chicago Daily Herald (12/2).

Climategate, Mediagate, and Abusegate
TheRealityCheck.Org 12/07/2009
"Just as a group of brave climatologists refused to be intimidated by the global warming thugs, the family violence field has its truth-tellers as well: Murray Straus at the University of New Hampshire, Richard Gelles at the University of Pennsylvania, Michelle Carney at the University of Georgia, Miriam Ehrensaft at Columbia University, Donald Dutton at the University of British Columbia, and Denise Hines at Clark University. All these years, the domestic violence lobby has been sullying the atmosphere with its gaseous assumptions, foggy logic, and over-heated rhetoric. When will the media blow the lid off of this story?"

Barn-raisers to rescue! Teams share skills, promote energy efficiency
Worcester Sunday Telegram 12/06/2009
"Sometimes in weatherproofing a building, as in life, the third time's the charm. That's what a team of volunteers led by Clark University senior Ashley E. Trull found yesterday as they tried to install weather-stripping around a drafty door at Pilgrim Congregational Church during an energy barn-raising,' a community event aimed at making a building more energy-efficient. "

HOPE
Worcester Sunday Telegram College Town 12/06/2009
"Worcester's Healthy Options for Prevention and Education Coalition, a public health advocacy organization, was awarded the Massachusetts Public Health Administration's Front Line Award recently at the MPHA's annual meeting. accepted by HOPE Coalition Director Laurie Ross, assistant professor of community development and planning at Clark University. "

Tiger’s transgressions
Worcester Sunday Telegram College Town 12/06/2009
"The Tiger Woods holiday card' which depicts a doctored photo of the golfer without front teeth and his wife holding a golf club has been circulating on the Internet, but Clark University researcher Denise Hines, who studies family violence, wonders if there'd be the same reaction to a photo of celebrity Rihanna after her boyfriend allegedly beat her earlier this year. "

She tells it like it is
Boston Globe 12/05/2009
"The very pregnant Padma Lakshmi, host of Bravo's Top Chef,' was in town yesterday for the opening of MIT's new Center for Gynepathology. (The center, overseen by MIT prof Linda Griffith, is devoted to the study of the female reproductive tract.) The former Mrs. Salman Rushdie has long struggled with endometriosis - a disease affecting an estimated 10 million women worldwide - and rarely misses an opportunity to talk about it with young women. (Lakshmi's also the founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America.) The 39-year-old Lakshmi, a graduate of Clark, said it's not easy to talk about something so intimate and unsexy, but it's important. "

What do lesbian and gay parents teach us?
Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) 12/03/2009
Clark assistant professor of Psychology, Abbie Goldberg, writes in a guest opinion column: "Issues such as gay adoption, gay parenting, and same-sex marriage are currently making news headlines like never before. As lesbians and gay men push for equal rights with respect to marriage and adoption, judges and legislators increasingly ask: What does the research say? In September, the American Psychological Association released my book, Lesbian and Gay Parents and their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle. "

Massachusetts: Can Capuano Catch Up in Senate Special?
CQ Politics 12/03/2009
"Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University and a former Kerry aide, said that when he looked at the campaigns' unfolding ground games he did not see any Coakley rivals having the kind of advantage in the field to make more than a point or two difference,' which, if the polls are accurate, wouldn't be enough to win the nomination. "

Padma Lakshmi Gets Saucy
New York Post Page Six Magazine 12/03/2009
" After divorcing writer and Manhattan party fixture Salman Rushdie in 2007 and being linked to the 69-year-old billionaire Teddy Forstmann, Padma announced this October that she was happily, mysteriously pregnant. After earning a degree in theater from Clark University in Massachusetts, Padma was discovered by a modeling agent in Spain and was soon walking the runway ..."

What do lesbian and gay parents teach us?
Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) 12/03/2009
Assistant Professor of psycholoy Abbie Goldberg writes a Guest opinion feature: "Issues such as gay adoption, gay parenting, and same-sex marriage are currently making news headlines like never before. No longer considered "fringe" issues that affect a small minority of the population, these topics now figure prominently in routine news coverage, and are, by extension, being hotly contested and debated in today's society. As lesbians and gay men push for equal rights with respect to marriage and adoption, judges and legislators increasingly ask: What does the research say? "

Astarjian: ‘Yalanci Dolma’ Diplomacy
The Armenian Weekly 12/02/2009
" The event was designed to build cultural bridges between the Armenian Diaspora on one side and the Turkish people on the other, to traverse a colossal gorge, not divide, created by centuries of slavery, abuse, colonization of Western Armenia, and pogroms, which peaked with the infamous genocide of 1915-23 The luminary in this event was the principle speaker, Hasan Cemal Additional reflections were to be articulated by two professors, Taner Akcam of Clark University and Asbed Kotchikian of Bentley University."

Rep. Capuano eyes last-minute surge in primary election
The Hill 12/02/2009
" The window for Attorney General Martha Coakley's challengers is closing fast, but Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) is making a late effort to keep it open Jim Gomes, a former [Kerry] staffer who now heads the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University, said Capuano needs to hope for a big mistake from his opponent. "

Bearing Witness to Tales of Terror
The Jewish Journal (Greater Los Angeles) 12/02/2009
"In November, a four-person team from Los Angeles traveled on a 12-day mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, as well as to neighboring Rwanda. 'I have seen pain in the eyes of hundreds of malnourished children, their bellies swollen and their hair turning orange, their mothers desperately wanting to return home and make a life for themselves and their babies away from the clamor of the IDP camp,' Naama Haviv [BA '00/M.A. '06], JWW assistant director, wrote Haviv, who in addition to being JWW's assistant director is a graduate of this country's only major in comparative genocide, at Clark University "

Journey of learning- Teacher grows from global experiences
Worcester Living magazine (Winter 2009) 12/01/2009
"Kevin Wilkinson [BA '90/ MA 96] began his career as a preschool teacher in Worcester. Forty years later, he's helping improve the education of children on the other side of the globe. The long journey from classrooms in Central Massachusetts to a mountaintop school in the Himalayas was, like many others Wilkinson has taken, filled with detours. Wilkinson continued his own education, though, studying at Clark University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. "

Shadowland Theatre opens doors to 3 new plays
Times Herald-Record (NY) 12/01/2009
"The Shadowland Theatre is bringing its Ulster County Playwright Festival back to the foldOn Sunday, December 13 at 4:00 p.m, The Jag' by Gino DiIorio will be read, directed by James Glossman. The play is the story of 70-year old Chick' Chicarella and his one prized possession, a 1966 Jaguar Sedan in need of repair. "

Hetero Hero: All in the Family
Boston Spirit 12/01/2009
Goldberg was also honored in Boston Spirit with their "Hetero Hero" award, given to heterosexuals working for the homosexual community. "Ten years ago as a graduate student in clinical psychology (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Abbie E. Goldberg started doing research on straight married couples and their transition into parenthood. Early on, however, Goldberg, who now holds a Ph.D. and is an assistant professor in psychology at Clark University in Worcester, made a startling discovery. There is no research on gay and lesbian couples and their transition,' she said recently during an interview." No internet edition is available.

Room and coed board
Boston Globe (Op-ed) 11/30/2009
"With crunch time approaching for millions of students to complete college applications, there is a relatively new wild card issue for families to consider when it comes to campus lifestyle. In the space of a few years, three dozen major schools have adopted dormitory policies allowing roommates to be of the opposite sex. Massachusetts is in the vanguard of this shift, with new coed rooming protocols in place at Harvard, Brandeis, Clark, and Wheaton College. "

A Symposium on Effective Practice
Liberal Education magazine (AAC&U) 11/30/2009
"Drawing from a recent public forum cosponsored by AAC&U and Clark University, this issue presents a series of commissioned papers on liberal education and effective practice. Also included are articles on individualized learning across the curriculum and the need to recognize emotion as a part of knowing. "

Chelsea Clinton Engaged To Long-Time Boyfriend
CBS5.com 11/30/2009
A photo of Chelsea Clinton taken during her speaking visit to with students at Clark University (Jan. 24, 2008) accompanied news announcements that "Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky."

Weekly Publishes Akcam Interview Rejected by ‘Changing Turkey’ Website
Armenian Weekly 11/29/2009
"This interview with Prof. Taner Akcam was conducted at Clark University's Strassler Center in Massachusetts on Oct. 30 by Dr. Vera Eccarius-Kelly for the blog project "Changing Turkey in a Changing World," affiliated with the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London (changingturkey.wordpress.com). The blog's editors, however, declined to publish the interview in its entirety..."

Grandson of Cemal Pasha Makes Overture to Armenian Community
Armenian Mirror-Spectator 11/28/2009
"The Armenian Cultural and Education Center on Tuesday, November 17, was packed by Armenian-Americans eager to hear the grandson of one of the three architects of the Armenian Genocide apologize for the sins of his grandfather and to reach out a hand to the community. Cemal explained that he had initially learned about the Armenian Genocide from Dink, later to be educated by the books of fellow panelist Taner Akam. He touched my heart, and my friend Taner Akam has touched my mind,' he noted."

A Follow Up on Gratitude & Teens
Newsweek “NurtureShock” blog 11/27/2009
" The second reason to doubt this is the research relating to children's understanding of God. As Ashley wrote about in a previous post, researchers such as Clark University's Lene Jensen have found that children's view of God is affected by his age and his parents' authority style. "

Making room at the table
Worcester Telegram 11/26/2009
" And at many local tables, there will be a few extra seats for doctors on call, international students, football players and others who can't get home to their own families to gobble a gobbler. Clark University makes a similar offer to its undergraduate international students, and Amy Daly Gardner, director of the Office of Intercultural Affairs, will host four today. "

Clark University Names Nick Gallagher Assistant Coach
LaxPower 11/24/2009
"Nick Gallagher, a former standout at Division III Ohio Wesleyan, has been named assistant lacrosse coach at Clark University, it was announced recently by Director of Athletics Linda Moulton. To be able to bring in someone of Nick's playing experience and character is a huge boost for our program,' said first-year head coach Jeff Cohen. As a four-year letterwinner at OWU, Gallagher helped led the Battling Bishops to four straight NCAA tournament appearances."

Scarborough high graduate is HERO fellow
The Current (Maine) 11/23/2009
"Thomas Hamill, a 2006 Scarborough High School graduate, is now a geography major at Clark University studying how the bright, green manicured lawns prized by many suburbanites impact the environment. The private, liberal arts research institution in Massachusetts considers Hamill's work so exceptional that he's just won a university fellowship that recognizes and supports his research. was named a 2009-2010 John O'Connor Human-Environment Regional Observatory Fellow, according to an announcement from Clark. named after the late John O'Connor, a prominent Massachusetts environmentalist and community activist who was a 1978 graduate of the university and a university trustee. Hamill is working with professors Colin Polsky and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. on a project that is funded by the National Science Foundation Hamill recently answered some questions from The Current, some over the phone and others by e-mail. He touched on what it means to be a geography major, his education at Scarborough High School, and his punk band, Britney's Spear. " Hamill's fellowship news also ran in the Scarborough Leader (11/27).

Mass Lawyers Weekly: Women of Justice 2009
Mass Lawyers Weekly magazine 11/23/2009
Former Clark Trustee Lauren Stiller Rikleen is listed among Mass Lawyers Weekly's Women of Justice honorees. "Lauren is the founder and Executive Director of the Bowditch Institute for Women's Success, where she combines her unique qualifications and expertise to help law firms and other business organizations create an environment where women can succeed. She is the author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law.' Lauren is a former chair and current member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and recently concluded ten years on the Board of Trustees of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves as a Trustee of the Middlesex Savings Bank. "

Depression: Are men too ''macho'' to seek help?
Wellsphere 11/23/2009
"It's hard enough to get a stubborn guy to recognize a physical symptom, set up a doctor appointment and show up at the clinic for a medical evaluation. It's even tougher for men to determine whether a mood change is normal, or a possible sign of depression. Professor of Psychology at Clark University, Dr. Michael Addis, is a national expert on the subject and will be setting up the first-ever center on men and depression at Clark. " Wellsphere.com is a consumer health website (competing with WebMD) with an extremely high ranking and millions of visitors per month.

What Can We Learn From Lesbian and Gay Parents?
Cherry Grrl (online magazine) 11/23/2009
Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark, and author of "Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle" (American Psychological Association), writes in an op-ed: "There are important similarities and differences between same-sex parent households and heterosexual parent households. Perhaps, instead of asking, "Are gay parents just as good? Do children of gay parents suffer?" we should be asking, "What can we learn from gay parents?"

Are Gay Parents Better Than Straight Ones? Dr. Goldberg Responds
SistersTalk Radio 11/22/2009
"Dr. Abbie Goldberg joins us to discuss the media's reaction to her book Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle.'"

Putting Clark on the map
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/22/2009
"Given Clark University's reputation for excellence in geography, it's an ideal new home for the Massachusetts Geographic Alliance, which is funded by the National Geographic Society. The Massachusetts Geographic Alliance was formed in 1987 as an organization composed of K-12 teachers dedicated to promoting the study of geography at the K-12 level in Massachusetts. To date, the alliance has received $ 1,130,000 from the National Geographic Society. Membership in the Alliance is open to any educator interested in improving the teaching of geography."

Akcam to Mouradian: Your Frustration with Turkish Intellectuals Exploded in Cemal’s Face
Armenian Weekly 11/21/2009
Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian/Mugar Professor of Armenian Genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History, writes: "I have to confess that when I read Khatchig Mouradian's editorial (Armenian Weekly, Nov. 21, 2009; available online at: http://www.armenianweekly.com/2009/11/18/editorial-historic-indeed-cemal-pashas-grandson-in-watertown/) I was saddened, but at the same time I saw that there was something positive in it also. "

Keeping alive the P'town home of poet Kunitz
Cape Cod Times 11/21/2009
" Worcester natives Carol and Gregory Stockmal took one look at the stucco building back in 1979 and bought it on the spot, with a down payment of $50. Then about five years later, their lives would change forever when an older man Stanley Kunitz of Provincetown, a former U.S. poet laureate stood on the street, recalling his home as a teenager in the early 1900s. Now, Carol Stockmal, 58, has donated the couple's 20 years of correspondence with Kunitz to Clark University"

Tension, Emotion at Harvard Turkish-Armenian Forum
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator 11/20/2009
"Something unprecedented happened at Harvard University's Tsai Auditorium on the night of Monday, November 16. Taner Akam, professor of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, joined the panel for the question-and-answer period. ..."

The Secret Life of Scientists: Joe DeGeorge, Physics Student
PBS.org/WGBH/NOVA 11/20/2009
"We were pretty excited when Joe DeGeorge came to our set. We'd met some other scientists who thought they were rock stars. But Joe really is one. Joe is studying Physics at Clark University. He also recently participated in a NASA undergraduate research program at the Goddard Space Flight Center. " The web-exclusive NOVA series includes a profile of DeGeorge '10, along with interviews, "Harry and the Potters" concert video, and DeGeorge discussing and singing about physics.

MBA program encourages career options
Gatehouse Media, Inc. Wicked Local weeklies 11/19/2009
Career feature includes interviews with part-time Graduate School of Management (GSOM) students Luther Harvey and Michael Beckett, as well as Lynn Davis, GSOM marketing and enrollment director. The article ran in several other outlets, including the Scituate Mariner, Wakefield Observer, Amesbury News, Beverly Citizen, and others. (Text not available online.)

Speaker: Green Decision Makers Should Be Local
Worcester Business Journal 11/19/2009
Prior entrepreneurial experience isn't necessary to start a green, sustainable business in your community. That was the message Wednesday night from Omar Freilla, the guest speaker at a forum called "Shaping a Local Green Economy" hosted by Clark University About 200 attendees, from local undergrads and volunteers from grassroots organizations to city officials and business owners, filled Clark's Tilton Hall for more than two hours to discuss how Worcester can build a local, green economy.

UN urges help for 1 billion deprived children
The Associated Press 11/19/2009
"UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights. One of those victims, Grace Akallo, who was kidnapped by the notorious Uganda-led Lord's Resistance Army in 1996 when she was 15 years old ... Akallo, now 29 and a graduate student at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said that when she appeared before the U.N. Security Council in April, members promised to help the millions of suffering children in war zones. " This story ran in more than 700 media outlets.

The Days May Be Grim, but Here’s a Good Word to Put in Your Pocket
The New York Times 11/19/2009
"On the back of seven million MetroCards distributed this fall is a single printed word: "optimism." The work itself is the creation of Reed Seifer [95], a graphic artist and designer who first printed the "optimism" logo on small buttons that he distributed as a college student. An undergraduate at the time, studying art at Clark University, Mr. Seifer incorporated the phrase into his senior thesis, " The MetroCards are also featured in the Times' Arts Beat blog (11/20), NBC New York, CNN's newswire, the weekly New York Observer, Gothamist blog, and other media. http://www.projectoptimism.com/about.htm http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/metrocard-as-art/

Lesbians parents better at raising children
The Sunday Times (London) 11/15/2009
" Research at Birkbeck college, part of London University, and at Clark University in Massachusetts, says there is no evidence to show children of lesbian parents are disadvantaged in any way. .." The article also ran in the UK's Daily Mail, and Telegraph news outlets (11/16).

History Channel to feature Shrewsbury WWII veteran
Worcester Telegram 11/13/2009
" Mr. Blunt is one of a dozen American veterans to participate in the History Channel's 10-part series "WWII in HD" airing Nov. 15-19. Like most young men at the time, his higher education was curtailed by the war. In 1943, at 18, he was drafted during his freshman year at Clark University. Before he left for military training, however, his English professor took him aside and praised his writing. "

Freud’s German no problem
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/12/2009
In an "As I See It" op-ed, Robert Tobin, Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Clark, writes: "Psychoanalysis went global in the fall of 1909 when Sigmund Freud left Europe to deliver five lectures at a conference at Clark Surprisingly, Freud delivered his lectures in German to a large audience of experts and lay people that included people as diverse as William James and Emma Goldman, who was living in Worcester at the time. "

New Presidents or Provosts: Heritage U. …
Inside Higher Ed 11/12/2009
"John Bassett, president of Clark University, in Massachusetts, has been appointed president of Heritage University, in Washington State."

Labor Dept Examining Requirement for NH Job Corps
CBS 4 Denver 11/12/2009
" Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said project labor agreements in construction have existed for at least 50 years. " This Associated Press report ran in several media, including the N.H. Union-Leader, Seattle Times, and Concord Monitor (N.H.).

‘Another challenge’
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/12/2009
"Clark swimmer Mike Smith never let cancer beat him I just looked at it as another challenge,' Smith, co-captain of Clark's swim team, said before Monday's practice at Kneller Pool. Being sad and depressed wasn't really going to be helpful.' "

New school group seeks exec. director
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/12/2009
"Members of the group's advisory board include Clark University President John E. Bassett, who has been the group's chairman"

When Sigmund Came to Clark
Worcester Magazine 11/11/2009
The cover feature, written by Clark University graduate and Worcester Magazine writer Jeremy Shulkin, tells the story of Freud's 1909 visit to Clark.

Down on the job: Survivor's Guilt
Philadelphia Inquirer 11/10/2009
"What's the connection? Experts point to the multiple stresses piled on those who are left standing after a round of layoffs. People don't realize the pressure of not being laid off,' says Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University, Worcester, Mass."

The Kids are Alright: New Study Looks at Children of Same-Sex Couples
Just Out 11/10/2009
"The recent study Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children by Abbie E. Goldberg, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Clark University, posits something that should rock advocates of the so-called traditional family': These children do just fine.' "

Clark swimmers raising funds
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/10/2009
"The Clark University swimming and diving team will hit the pool tomorrow as part of an unusual fundraiser." The item was also published in the Sunday Telegram's "College Town" section (11/15).

Crime and punishment: Trip to the Colonies
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/09/2009
"That so many early Americans were without their freedom captivated local author and historian Anthony Vaver, who recently published an e-book on the topic Convict Transportation from Great Britain to the American Colonies.' According to Fern Johnson, director of the Communication and Culture Program at Clark University, self-publishing is becoming increasingly common. ..."

Children of Gay Parents
PsychCentral 11/09/2009
"The article is based upon a new book from Abbie E. Goldberg, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Clark University, that reviews more than 100 research studies about this very topic how do children of lesbian mothers (mostly, as gay dads haven't been studied as much) fare?"

"What is a family?"
Bay Windows 11/09/2009
"The first is Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle by Abbie Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester."

The Righteous
CBS Sunday Morning 11/08/2009
In a segment subtitled, "A Little-Known Secret was that Albanian Muslims Hid Jews from the Nazis; Now a Survivor Reunites With Her Savior," Debrah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, is interviewed for the program marking "a painful anniversary (Nov. 9) for many who survived the run-up to World War II Kristallnacht."

The Way We Live Now – What Gay Parenting Teaches Us All
New York Times Magazine 11/08/2009
Clark assistant professor of psychology Abbie Goldberg is interviewed and her research cited in a feature by "Motherlode" blogger and writer Lisa Belkin, who writes, "Until relatively recently, we didn't know much about the children of same-sex couples. And the portrait emerging tells us something about the effects of gay parenting. It also contains lessons for all parents." Belkin also discussed Goldberg's book, "Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle," in her blog (11/6).

Making a name for himself
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/08/2009
"Nicknames have always been part of sports. The Gipper. The Gooch. The Goose. The Chief. If it's something players are used to, it's that they are referred to by a name other than their first or last. For Clark University sophomore Brian Vayda, the connotation seemed automatic Darth, as in Vader. Unfortunately for headline writers, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to the Sturbridge native and former Tantasqua Regional basketball star. "

Clark University’s Columbinus
Pulse Magazine 11/05/2009
The Pulse features the play "Columbinus," to be performed at Clark Nov. 12-14 and 19-21 at Clark University. Director Rob Urbinati is interviewed. "With auditions completed, rehearsals in place and everything coming together, Urbinati is prepared for the emotional rollercoaster that he and his cast and crew may experience while creating this show. "

Heritage University names new president
Seattle Times 11/05/2009
"John Bassett, current president of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., has been named the new president of Heritage University. Bassett, 67, who will replace founding president Sister Kathleen Ross, will assume the post next summer."

Bassett gets post-Clark job
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/05/2009
"Clark University President John E. Bassett will become the next president of Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash., after his retirement from Clark in July, he announced yesterday."

The ARF in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with Dikran Kaligian
The Armenian Weekly 11/05/2009
" Dikran Kaligian has taught history at Clark University and Regis, Westfield State, and Wheaton colleges. He is past chairperson of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern United States and managing editor of the Armenian Review. Below is a short interview with Kaligian about the relations between the ARF and various groups "

Those still working are busier than ever
Marketplace (blog) 11/05/2009
"The Labor Department says productivity grew at the fastest rate in six years. That means people who still have their jobs are working harder and producing more than they used to. But won't companies get used to all this productivity and decide they don't need to hire? Labor relations professor Gary Chaison at Clark University says no. " http://www.clarku.edu/academicCatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=214

Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting
USA Today 11/05/2009
"But Census numbers are just part of a new comprehensive analysis of research on gay parenting since the 1970s in new book Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle,' by Abbie Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass."

Growing up with gay parents
WGBH Radio Boston “The Takeaway” 11/04/2009
"Voters in Maine voted yesterday to revoke gay marriage in the state. Opponents of gay marriage frequently bring up the hypothetical effects of gay parenting on kids as a reason to deny gay couples the right to marry. New York Times Motherlode writer Lisa Belkin explains the results of recent research." Belkin cited research by Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark. The Takeaway is a co-production of PRI (Public Radio International) and WNYC Radio in collaboration with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston.

US agency proposes change for airline union votes
Reuters India 11/03/2009
" The proposal, if implemented, would change current procedures dating back 75 years that require a majority of an entire work group to approve unionization. That policy effectively counts members of a group who don't vote as 'no' votes. It's a good turn for unions because it makes the election process fairer and it resembles more closely national political elections,' said Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts."

Scholar sees court tilting
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 11/03/2009
A President's Lecture Series event featured: "The Supreme Court seems as out of step with the American mainstream today as it did 40 to 50 years ago when it was famously led to the left by Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s, Linda Greenhouse said yesterday in a lecture at Clark University's Razzo Hall. "

Akcam speaks to hundreds of students at La Salle University
Armenian Weekly 11/03/2009
"Before a standing-room only audience at La Salle University, Dr. Taner Akcam, the first scholar of Turkish origin to publish on the heretofore-taboo topic of the Armenian Genocide, explained the historical background and causes of the genocide. " Akcam is an associate professor of history at Clark University.

Clark University management program moving to Southborough
MetroWest Daily News 11/03/2009
In January, Clark University's Graduate School of Management will move three miles west of its current Rte. 9 location in Framingham.

Guides to Nature
Worcester Telegram 11/02/2009
"Field guides are a naturalist's best friend, although at some point entomologists, birders and other nature lovers who spent a lot of time in the field acquire enough knowledge they rarely need books to identify what they see. Mycologist David Hibbett of Clark University uses various field guides because any single guide does not cover all that is needed in looking at fungi in New ..."

Looking back at contributions of Goddard
San Antonio Express 11/02/2009
" That first flight to the moon began in the branches of a cherry tree in Worcester, Mass., on October 19, 1899. Robert Goddard, a 17-year-old who was pruning the tree, later wrote, It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars. I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended, for existence at last seemed very purposive.' He continued his experiments after becoming a physics professor at Clark University."

Analysis: Rejection of Ford-UAW deal spells trouble for region, industry
The Detroit News 11/01/2009
"Workers at Ford Motor Co. have overwhelmingly rejected an agreement negotiated between the company and the United Auto Workers last month, creating a new challenge for the Dearborn automaker and raising serious questions about the future of labor relations in the troubled industry...." Comments by Gary Chaison, Clark professor of industrial relations, is included in this analysis, as well as in numerous other print and online media reports about the negotiations, from the Associated Press (Ford workers reject contract changes), to the New York Times (Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford), to the Arab Times (Ford-UAW 'deal' nears rejection, no new talks). http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giSH29njFnKe-r4c1Brh_ptgBWIQD9BM8ENO0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/28ford.html?_r=1 http://www.arabtimesonline.com/kuwaitnews/pagesdetails.asp?nid=38787&ccid=12

Anthropologist presents study of the dispossession of the q’eqchi’es
Prensa Libre 10/30/2009
Liza Grandia, assistant professor, Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE), was in Guatemala for the launch of her new book, "Tz'aaptz'ooqeb': El Despojo Recurrente al Pueblo Q'eqchi' " An article and photo appeared in Prensa Libre, Guatemala's national paper, Sunday edition.

Boeing's SC jobs a setback for unions
Washington Post 10/30/2009
"Boeing's decision to open a second assembly line for its 787 jetliner in South Carolina is another blow for organized labor, experts say This is the escape from collective bargaining,' said Gary Chaison, a labor expert at Clark University. ..."

Cries for Help Not Always Answered
Sphere – AOL News 10/30/2009
"A girl is gang raped outside a California high school, and an entire nation asks one question: How could this happen? People often hear cries for help and think someone else will call the authorities, or they don't know what to do and so do nothing -- a phenomenon known as the bystander effect,' explained Denise Hines, a research assistant professor at Clark University in Massachusetts who teaches classes on that very subject. "

IPPBC Welcomes Paul Kariya as New Executive Director
Market Wire 10/29/2009
"The Independent Power Producers Association of B.C. (IPPBC) has appointed Dr. Paul Kariya as Executive Director. He has a BA from the University of BC and post-graduate degrees from Clark University. This is an exciting time for all who want to help society shift to increased reliance upon clean power sources and greater conservation efforts in B.C.,' said Paul Kariya. "

Experience, research refute arguments of same-sex opponents
The National Catholic Reporter 10/29/2009
" Gay and lesbian parents are doing just fine and look very similar to straight parents in terms of mental health, parental warmth, and the kinds of parenting attitudes and values,' said Abbie G. Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University, located in Worcester, Mass. She is the author of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle,' the first book-length review and analysis of research on parenting by same-sex couples and their families, published last Sept., by the American Psychological Association. "

Clark U Student from Bolton Honored For Work in Community
Hartford Courant 10/29/2009
"Clark University student Miranda J. Muro, of Bolton, was presented with the Thomas J. '56 and Barbara J. Lindblom '56 2009 Anton Endowed Prize during a ..."

Gay Parents Better Than Straight?
The Advocate 10/28/2009
The Advocate features research presented in the book "Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle," by Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark. Goldberg is also featured profiled in "Abbie Goldberg: A lens on gay and lesbian families," running in the November 20009 issue of Preview Massachusetts magazine. http://www.previewma.com/

Not So Fast
Worcester Business Journal 10/26/2009
"Economists cast doubt on report that Worcester and Framingham have exited the recession -The greater Worcester and Framingham regions were identified in a recent report as the only two areas in the Bay State that are in full-on economic recovery. But local economists say you can't believe everything you read. " Comments by Wayne Gray, professor and chair of the economics department at Clark University, are included in the article.

Student-run group camps out for climate change legislation
Boston Globe 10/26/2009
"The Leadership Campaign, a Massachusetts-based student-run group focused on the environment, is looking to have a series of sleep-overs on Boston Common imbued with a sense of urgency about taking action on the environment. Lizzie Rubenstein, a Clark University sophomore, told about 70 onlookers the campaign is an action-oriented counterpoint to pessimism about the Earth's future. We have a solution, and we know what we [have to] do,' she said. That's what I love about this campaign.'"

Clark U. relocating satellite campus to Southborough
Boston Globe 10/26/2009
"Clark University Graduate School of Management has executed a new 8,470-square-foot lease for its satellite campus at 333 Turnpike Road in Southborough, a broker involved in the transaction said. "

Losing local press ‘not an acceptable possibility'
Worcester Telegram 10/25/2009
"As chairman and chief executive of Polar Beverages Corp., Ralph D. Crowley Jr. has acquired nearly three dozen other companies Now he, along with his new partner, Harry T. Whitin, recently retired editor of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, may be on the verge of buying another property, the Telegram & Gazette. Mr. Crowley was born and grew up in Worcester until his parents shipped him off to a Christian boarding school in Australia, homeland of a branch of Crowley cousins. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine and earned an MBA from Clark University. "

Students interested in election
Worcester Telegram 10/25/2009
Nick Kotsopoulos writes in his "Politics and the City" column: " it's obvious that college students have chosen to stay on the sidelines when it comes to municipal elections. But there are signs that that could be changing for this municipal election. According to city election officials, more than 230 Holy Cross students recently registered to vote for the Nov. 3 election; that is unprecedented for a municipal election. Meanwhile, more than 90 Clark students did the same. City Clerk David J. Rushford said the number of new voters at Clark is likely to be even higher because the registration figure only takes into account those who live on campus; the school has a number of students living off-campus. "

A Tight Squeeze
Worcester Magazine 10/25/2009
"There are a host of excellent reasons to visit the Worcester Art Museum, and some enterprising Clark University art history students, under the direction of their professor, John Garton, have teased out yet another. Bound by Fashion,' a self-guided, color-coded exhibition "

3 candidates back bargaining for retirees
Worcester Telegram 10/23/2009
"Emmanuel Tsitsilianos, incumbent Kathleen M. Toomey and Joseph C. O'Brien told about 40 people at a forum at Clark University's Tilton Hall that as members ..."

Stanley Kunitz letters are donated to Clark
Worcester Telegram 10/23/2009
" Carol Stockmal wanted to secure the collection of letters, poems, postcards, broadsides, prints and video. So yesterday she formally presented the collection to officials of Clark University who came to 4 Woodford St. for the occasion. It's wonderful for future scholars and anyone who wants to know the private side of Stanley Kunitz,' she said. The collection at Clark will be known as the Stanley Kunitz/Stockmal Collection. "

Around-the-clock auto plant shifts good for economy, but what about workers?
Trading Markets (The Connors Group) 10/23/2009
Last week, Ford Motor Co. went to a third shift at the Claycomo plant to crank out more of the strong-selling Ford Escape SUVs. Two-shift plants are always worried about whether the company is going to cut a shift, particularly if their vehicle's not selling,' said Gary Chaison, industrial relations professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. So when a third shift is added, it's a very positive sign.'

Ford Dearborn Workers Voice Opposition to Givebacks
Bloomberg 10/22/2009
" Giving up the strike weapon is controversial because not only is the company asking for double concessions, but they're saying that in future negotiations you won't be able to get what you've lost back by using a strike," said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester "

Adoption and the LGBT Community
blogtalkradio.com “Creating a Family” 10/21/2009
Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark is interviewed by author and adoption expert Dawn Davenport on "Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption and Infertility."

'Death Angel' Mushrooms Poison Mother, Son
WCVB TV CH5 Boston 10/20/2009
"Two Newton residents were in the intensive care unit of a local hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms they found near their yard, city officials said. " An interview with David Hibbett, Clark professor of biology and expert on fungi, is included in the news segment.

Clark University absorbs $70M investment loss
Boston Business Journal 10/20/2009
"Clark University's investment portfolio shrank by 25 percent to $240.1 million during the fiscal year that ended May 31, the school recently disclosed to bondholders. Jim Collins, vice president of planning and finance at Clark, said the school's endowment had a negative investment return of 16.6 percent for the 1-year period ended June 30. We performed somewhat better than many of our peers, who have reported losses in the 20 percent to 25 percent range,' Collins said. "

Prof. Sitaraman on Open Mic with Randy Feldman
WPKZ AM 1280 radio 10/19/2009
Srini Sitaraman, associate professor of Government & International Relations, was a guest expert on the WPKZ AM 1280 radio show "Open Mic with Randy Feldman," where he spoke about Afghanistan. Sitaraman also appeared on an Oct. 4 show devoted to events in Iran. Feldman is a Worcester Attorney who specializes in immigration. The live, New England-area talk show airs Sunday mornings from 11 a.m. to noon (not available online).

Five former Cougars enshrined
Worcester Telegram 10/18/2009
"Clark University inducted five new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame yesterday. The inductees include Dan Trant (Class of 1984), Ken Stuart ('85), Jen West ('94), Sis Mazzamurro ('84) and Tom Dolan ('62). ..."

Peace movement comes in from cold
Worcester Telegram 10/16/2009
"Worcester has often been a hotbed for peace activists. During the 1960s, Clark University was a center of the anti-war movement, and today various groups, including the Sts. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker house, have been involved in demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, until recently, the city never had a central clearinghouse where resources on peace issues could be archived. "

Dressing Freud
Worcester Telegram (video feature) 10/16/2009
Clark students Diana Fuller, Lisa Taylor, and Rachel Brenner-Goldstein appear in a video feature on the Undergraduate Psychology Committee's "Furbishing Freud" photo contest, held at the Freud statue on Clark's quad.

A-B grad excels at Clark
Wicked Local Boxborough 10/15/2009
"Anyone who watched Mike Trobagis play soccer at Acton-Boxborough could tell how much he loved the game. It was obvious just about every time he scored a goal, when he celebrated by doing the airplane or other antics that European professional players usually do. Now that he plays for Clark University, he's found a different, more low-key way of celebrating. "

Clark Undergraduate From West Hartford Inspired By Work With Sheltered Women
Hartford Courant 10/15/2009
"Clark University student Marah Warhaftig, a junior sociology major from West Hartford, Conn. and student at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., spent this past summer interning with Abby's House, a local women's transitional housing program in Worcester as part of her Making A Difference Scholar summer project. "

Study shows men inclined to neglect aid for depression
The Daily Texan 10/15/2009
"Society's inattention to men's vulnerabilities might pose a problem to their mental well-being, said Michael Addis, a psychology professor at Clark University at a talk Wednesday. "

Men and Depression
KFWB-AM CBS Radio (Los Angeles) 10/14/2009
Clark University professor of psychology Michael Addis is interviewed about his presentation on "Men and Depression: Overcoming the Stigma and Creating Positive Change" at an alumni event in Los Angeles. The interview aired on both KFWB-AM and KNX-AM 1070 during the morning drive shows. (Interview not available online.) http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=92 http://www.knx1070.com/

Worcester organizers canvas city for new voters
New England Cable News 10/14/2009
"It's the last day to register to vote for city elections and Clark University student David Leboeuf is spending it canvassing the city." Follow the link above for video. Leboeuf heads the Coalition for Educated Options, which created a Community Initiated Questionnaire for Worcester candidates. His work appears in a Worcester Magazine article (10/15) titled "Candidates' questions? Try 86 of them." (Also in http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/4637/ )

Ford, UAW Agree to Labor Contract
Washington Post 10/14/2009
"Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University, said the most troubling concession for union members is the commitment not to strike until 2012. "

Women find inspiration at Tufts 10K -Two overcame stroke, accident
Boston Globe 10/14/2009
"Thirty-two-year-old Jessica Pelland struggles to walk. A stroke she suffered when she was 12 has made it difficult for her to control her right arm and leg. In 2001, she graduated from Clark University in Worcester with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in urban education. "

‘I used to call it Worchester’
Worcester Magazine 10/14/2009
A feature about college first-years and their relationship with the city includes a profile of Clark student Mollie Kleyboecker. "For two hours she'll work out with the Clark University swim team, and then it's off to breakfast. A quick nap in her dorm room, class at noon, lunch with a friend, and then back to the dorm to slip on sneakers and go for a run. "

Local College Receives High Marks for Sustainability
Worcester Business Journal 10/13/2009
"Worcester's Clark University made the honor roll for its environmental and sustainability practices, according to an assessment of national colleges conducted by Cambridge-based Sustainable Endowments Institute. "

Med school wins $21.4M from NIH for research
Worcester Telegram 10/13/2009
"While the state is used to seeing Boston area researchers win large amounts of National Institutes of Health research dollars, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School said state-funded expansion of the school's research capacity paved the way for the school to win 71 sizeable NIH research grants totaling more than $21.4 million last week. Meanwhile researchers at Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and several area biotechnology companies, including Microbiotix Inc., GLS Synthesis Inc., Iquum Inc. and the Mattek Corp., also shared in sizeable allocations for disease and medical research from the stimulus awards."

Ford, UAW Reach Tentative Accord on Contract Changes
Bloomberg news 10/13/2009
"The bonus and promise of new work will help get the deal ratified, said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts."

Knowhow: Focused On Financing
Worcester Business Journal 10/12/2009
As a guest columnist, John Rainey, senior business advisor and financial specialist with the Massachusetts Small Business Development Network at Clark University, writes: "Small business owners looking for access to additional capital can take comfort in knowing that they are not alone. In a tough economic environment like this, more and more companies are seeing their profit numbers dip and their levels of debt rise. To stay competitive, those small businesses are trying to find new sources of revenue. "

Grant Secures Energy Institute's Future
Worcester Business Journal 10/12/2009
"Thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the Worcester-based Institute for Energy Innovation and Sustainability (IEIS) is officially off the ground even if it doesn't have an executive director yet. The IEIS is the product of collaboration between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University. And while up until this point the institute has been nothing more than an idea, the $150,000 grant from the clean energy center cements its status. "

Down time: Area’s Jobless Braving a Grueling Hunt
Worcester Sunday Telegram 10/11/2009
"As the economic downturn persisted over the past year month after agonizing month for people desperate for work such as Mr. Barry the number of people out of work in Central Massachusetts mounted to alarming levels. Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University, also doesn't see much reason for optimism in the near term. "

Down time: Area’s Jobless Braving a Grueling Hunt
Worcester Sunday Telegram 10/11/2009
"As the economic downturn persisted over the past year month after agonizing month for people desperate for work such as Mr. Barry the number of people out of work in Central Massachusetts mounted to alarming levels. Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University, also doesn't see much reason for optimism in the near term. "

Khazei claims outsider status
Worcester Telegram 10/10/2009
"Alan Khazei told a group of students at Clark University yesterday that college students and young people are a crucial part of his campaign to win the Senate seat left open by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. After last year's presidential election, that saw young people turn out in droves to vote for Barack Obama, Mr. Khazei, a social entrepreneur' and co-founder of the City Year program run in 16 cities across the country, including Boston, said he hopes to tap the networking skills and activist spirit of students on campuses like Clark's to give him the victory in the Dec. 8 primary. " The Boston Globe (10/7) also mentioned Khazei's planned visit to Clark.

Hingham mom to be honored at New England Basketball Hall Of Fame
Gatehouse News Service - Hingham Journal 10/08/2009
"One of Clark University's most prominent women's basketball figures will be inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. Former student-athlete Tara McGuire Johnson 89 will join an elite group of inductees to be honored in a ceremony slated for Oct. 9 at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. Tara McGuire Johnson was a four-year, standout player in Clark Women's Basketball program. "

Challenges didn't tarnish beautiful spirit
Worcester Telegram 10/08/2009
Columnist Dianne Williamson writes about the recent death of Clark alumna and well known musician Valerie (Orchinik) Crockett '78. "Walter Crockett was playing for the popular band Zonkaraz at Clark University's spree day when, as he recalled, I looked around to see whose eye was worth catching.' Not surprisingly, he settled on the gorgeous green eyes of Valerie Orchinik "

Summer shelter
Worcester Telegram “College Town” 10/05/2009
"Clark University student Marah Warhaftig spent the summer as an intern with Abby's House, a women's transitional housing program in Worcester, as part of her Making A Difference Scholar summer project. Ms. Warhaftig, a junior sociology major from West Hartford, Conn., was not sure what to expect. "

Freud's granddaughter visits Clark
Worcester Telegram 10/05/2009
"Dr. Sophie Freud shared pieces of both experiences during her talk Saturday night at Clark University. Her talk was part of a weekend of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her grandfather's visit to Clark in 1909 for a lecture on psychoanalysis. His granddaughter shared recollections, some humorous, others horrifying, to a packed auditorium at Daniels Theater at Atwood Hall. "

Clark Grad Gives University $500,000
Worcester Business Journal 10/05/2009
"A member of Clark University's Class of 1948 has given the school $500,000 to establish an endowed education fund. The gift provides for a permanent endowment for urban education at Clark's Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise. The fund will support research on the effectiveness of teachers in urban schools, the role of school leadership on educational performance and the welfare of children and families as it relates to school success."

Alice's Blend: The people behind the ghost bike saga
‘Greater’ Greater Washington blog 10/05/2009
"All the buzz over the ghost bikes at Dupont Circle made me wonder: who are the people caught up in this controversy anyway? Ruth E. Rowan and Legba Carrefour aren't the likeliest of pairs. Rowan, 59, a part-time finance professor at Clark University in Massachusetts, describes herself as a pragmatist. She graduated from MIT's Sloan School of Business in 1977, and worked in corporate finance for more than 25 years. "

Some colleges dropping SATs in admissions process
Worcester Sunday Telegram 10/04/2009
"Clark University, which has a minority enrollment of 8 percent, requires SAT scores for admission, although scores are not looked at in isolation, said Donald M. Honeman, dean of admissions and financial aid. Consideration is given to students who come from a disadvantaged background that prevents the opportunity to take preparatory test courses and the SAT multiple times until scores go up. Even though we recognize the SAT has some flaws, it is the one element in the application portfolio that is consistent across the country,' Mr. Honeman said. "

Opinion: Franklin-McKinley experiment shows real promise
San Jose Mercury News 10/03/2009
An innovative school is quietly germinating in an improbable corner of San Jose. If it can meet its high expectations, the College Connection Academy will offer a very different model for a 21st-century school. It could shatter the notion of what typical low-income minority children can achieve in high school, creating graduates who are not only ready for college but already immersed in it. Modeled on the University Park Campus School at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., it's following the vision of Franklin-McKinley Superintendent John Porter, who has long been interested in school redesign. "

Conference at Clark University marks Freud’s 1909 US visit
Associated Press 10/03/2009
"Dr. Sigmund Freud's granddaughter will be among those taking part in a series of events at Clark University to commemorate Freud's only visit to America 100 years ago. Clark is hosting a three-day event through Monday to mark the centennial anniversary of the visit. Speakers at the conference will talk about the impact of Freud's thinking and other issues in contemporary psychology. " (Appeared in the Boston Herald)

Clark University celebrates Freud
Boston.com – Brainiac blog 10/02/2009
From the Brainiac blog ("Illuminating thoughts from the world of ideas") at the Boston Globe's Boston.com: "Clark University this weekend celebrates the centennial of Freud's famous lectures on that campus, which represented his only visit to North America. Lurking in the air is a question that Sander Gilman, a cultural historian at Emory University (and director of its psychoanalytic studies program), summed up quite nicely in a brief interview with me: Why the hell would he go across the ocean to speak at Clark rather than Harvard or Stanford?' Many people are unaware of Clark's rich history, which Gilman helped remind me of "

Clark commemorates psychoanalyst's lectures
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 10/01/2009
"As part of a conference series commemorating the centennial of that groundbreaking visit, Dr. Sophie Freud, granddaughter of Sigmund, is coming to Clark. She will give a talk on what it was like to grow up in one of the most famous families of the 20th century."

Curating the 'Bound by Fashion' exhibit at Worcester Art Museum
Daily News Tribune (Waltham, MA) 10/01/2009
"John Garton, assistant professor of art history at the department of visual and performing arts at Clark University, talks about curating the Bound by Fashion' exhibit at Worcester Art Museum with his students. "

Mass. Clean Energy Center awards cleantech grant to Worcester institute
Mass High Tech 10/01/2009
"Worcester's Institute for Energy Innovation and Sustainability (IEIS) has won a $150,000 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to help get the institute's operations runningWorcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University have involved themselves early, and IEIS officials said they will encourage all of Worcester's colleges and technical high schools to participate." The news also was published in the Worcester Telegram (9/29). http://www.telegram.com/article/20090929/DIGESTS/909290354/1143/BUSINESS

New hopeful for Ted Kennedy’s seat has right name for job
Boston Herald 09/28/2009
Clark alumnus Joe L. Kennedy announced he will run as the Independent candidate for U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy (no relation). " I wouldn't say I'm politically active, but you can't sit around and complain all the time and do nothing about it,' said the lesser-known Kennedy, a bachelor and 1993 Clark University graduate. "

Clark will miss Bassett
Worcester Sunday Telegram 09/27/2009
Editorial columnist Robert Z. Nemeth reflects on President Bassett's time at Clark and in the city community. "When John Bassett took me on a tour of the campus of Clark University recently, I had no idea that he was going to step down from the presidency of the school any time soon. His early announcement has left enough time to make the start date for his successor flexible and the transition seamless. For now, the trustees established an advisory committee to determine the leadership challenges of the future and the qualities the new president needs to successfully meet those challenges. My suggestion is to go out and try to find another John Bassett. That, however, may not be that easy."

Eco friends
Worcester Sunday Telegram “College Town” 09/27/2009
"Nineteen environmentally concerned Clark University students are serving as the first ecological representatives, or Eco-Reps, on campus this fall. Encouraging a culture of sustainability in the residence halls is their main task. The idea began with three undergraduates in The Sustainable University' class taught by Jennie Stephens, assistant professor of environmental science and policy in the international development, community and environment department."

Ready for challenges
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/26/2009
"While shopping for a new home in the city 20 years ago, David Coyne asked his real estate agent to recommend a synagogue that he and his wife might consider joining. The agent suggested Temple Emanuel on May Street. We kind of stumbled across the synagogue,' said Mr. Coyne, director of Clark University's Hillel, a campus organization for Jewish students. But it's one of the best things that happened to us.' "

New book continues D'Army Bailey's mission of civil rights education
Memphis Commercial Appeal 09/26/2009
"D'Army Bailey retired as Circuit Court judge Sept. 15 to return to private law practice, but he said he will continue his lifelong dedication to civil rights education. His story is a journey that leads from South Memphis to Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., where he was expelled for leading a class boycott against the administration's stance on segregation. That led him to the unlikeliest of locations for a civil rights activist, Clark University in Worcester, Mass. ..."

It All Adds Up
Worcester Magazine 09/23/2009
Columnist Janice Harvey writes about her years at Woodland Preparatory school, now Clark's Carlson Hall. "Years would pass before I would see that building again -- in fact, I would be a COPACE student at Clark University some 25 years later when I walked by the little brick schoolhouse. I stopped and thought about the two years I spent there, pushing myself to be the best I could be. "

Freud in America! 100 Years Ago this Month
The Huffington Post 09/22/2009
"This month marks the one hundredth anniversary of Sigmund Freud's only visit to America. He lectured at Clark University in Worcester, M.A. on the Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis,' accompanied by Carl Jung and Sandor Ferenczi. "

When Freud Came to America
The Chronicle of Higher Education 09/21/2009
"Freud came to deliver five lectures over five days in September 1909 at Clark University. Its president, G. Stanley Hall, had invited a number of leading thinkers to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Clark. Clark? For our rank-obsessed society, that might seem surprising. Not Chicago or Princeton or Columbia but a small Massachusetts university with just 16 faculty members had invited one of the pivotal thinkers of the 20th century. "

A great start Big crowd ensures sales
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/21/2009
"This is stARTing to get really big. The seventh start on the Street festival rocked our little corner of the art world yesterday. about 30,000 pedestrians packed Park Ave. during festival hours It's been a fabulous day,' festival co-director Tina Zlody said as things began finally winding down in late afternoon. "

Main South fest draws many to gemlike park
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/20/2009
A feature about the Main South Celebrates! Summer in the City festival at Crystal Park/University Park is called a "great end of the summer The event was about celebrating the neighborhood's recommitment to this park,' said M. Casey Starr, University Park Partnership Liaison, essentially the liaison between Clark University and the 23-year-old Main South Community Development Corporation. "

Clark athlete's trip to Africa is no game
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/17/2009
"Lauren Blake spent the 2008 season away from the Clark University field hockey team, but during her studies last fall in Namibia on Africa's southwest coast, she learned the rules of rugby and cricket, and even took some swings in a cricket cage (think batting cage). She is back with the Cougars this year and leads the team in scoring with 13 points in four games."

Analyze this piece of history
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/17/2009
"On Nov. 6, 1908, the trustees of Clark University authorized its president, G. Stanley Hall, to make arrangements for the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the university,' expenditures not exceeding ten thousand dollars.' Little did they know that they were about to set off a revolution. " Article is by T&G columnist and Clark alumnus Albert B. Southwick (BA '41/MA '49).

Clark U president to step down
Associated Press 09/16/2009
"Clark University President John Bassett has announced that he plans to step down at the end of the academic year. The 67-year-old Bassett said Wednesday his resignation will be effective July 1, 2010, after a decade at the helm of the 3,000-student university in Worcester. " News of the announcement was also published in the Boston Globe, Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Worcester Business Journal, Worcester Magazine and Boston Herald.

Clark Lands Former UMass Vice Chancellor
Worcester Business Journal 09/16/2009
"Clark University of Worcester has appointed Don Honeman as dean of admissions and financial aid. Most recently, Honeman was associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. "

Union Members Say They Want More Hardball From Obama
Bloomberg 09/16/2009
" Labor activists at the convention in Pittsburgh, which culminated today with the election of Richard Trumka as the federation's next president, say they are frustrated at the pace of political change in Washington. Gary Chaison, an industrial relations professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, said "

Specter Backs Union-Organizing Bill
BusinessWeek 09/15/2009
" Some hard-liners insist on keeping card check no matter what,' says Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, ..."

Too young for a midlife crisis
Fayetteville Observer (N.C.) 09/15/2009
The Fayetteville Observer ran a syndicated Washington Post article: "Unlike young adults of generations past, many of whom were married and settled in their careers by their mid-20s, today's college grads experience a longer period of transition to the settled-down stage, said Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a research professor of psychology at Clark University in Massachusetts and author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From Late Teens Through the Twenties.' "

College Town
Worcester Sunday Telegram 09/13/2009
"If you missed Tuesday's "Chronicle" HD show on WCVB-TV Channel 5, you can watch the episode "Reconsidering Worcester" on thebostonchannel.com and see why Clark University received an A+ in town-gown relations. "

Taking the next step
Boston Globe 09/13/2009
The face of the classroom is changing as the sour economy prompts more older adults to return to school "At Clark University's College of Professional and Continuing Education in Worcester, enrollment jumped 24 percent in spring 2008 from a year earlier, then rose again this past spring, upticks that assistant dean Max Hess attributes in large part to layoffs and shrinking career prospects. Half of his students are now working-age adults, and the school's largest program is the master's in public administration - the ticket to a career in the seemingly stable nonprofit or public sectors. Christine Mullaney, a longtime administrative assistant from Holden, chose to enroll part time in Clark's MPA program a year ago to expand her career options."

ASU and Clark University team on tourism research
Phoenix Business Journal 09/11/2009
"The Valley hospitality scene is going to be the starting point for a research relationship between the Megapolitan Tourism Research Center at Arizona State University and the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The collaboration is aimed at determining how tourism can contribute to a community. This is about helping tourism better serve the community good. We are building on a partnership, and we are hoping to make this an effort that spans nationally and internationally,' said Robert Johnston, director of the Marsh Institute."

Cinema 320's fall lineup opens Tuesday at Clark
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/11/2009
"Cinema 320's remarkable longevity of showing highly acclaimed foreign and independent films continues as its 27th season opens Tuesday with the Swedish film Everlasting Moments.' "

Property owners say proposal puts burden on them
09/11/2009
"A proposed ordinance aimed at cracking down on unruly parties has run into strong opposition from rental property owners and local college students who feel it unfairly singles them out and goes beyond what the city wants it to accomplish. Students from Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the College of the Holy Cross also spoke against various aspects of the ordinance. ..."

Clark Students Object to Party Ordinance
Worcester Magazine 09/10/2009
"In the wake of out-of-control parties at Holy Cross-area Caro Street last year, city pols pursued an unruly party ordinance. Now, with that statute up for more debate at Thursday's Public Safety Meeting, some college students in Worcester are asking, Why punish all for someone else's mistake?' I feel like Worcester is trying to solve a problem,' said Ifrad Islam, Student Council President at Clark University, and I do recognize that there is a problem. But I don't think they recognize the long-range consequence this ordinance could have on Worcester. ...

Two minutes with … Parminder Bhachu
Worcester Magazine 09/10/2009
The weekly magazine's "Two Minutes With" feature is an interview with Parminder Bhachu, Clark professor of sociology.

Wake Up Worcester
Charter CH. 3 TV & AM 830 WCRN 09/09/2009
Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust history and the director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, discusses her book, "Flight From the Reich." (Viewing available to subscribers by Charter on Demand)

Rebooting Worcester
WCVB TV Boston CH 5 – Chronicle HD 09/08/2009
"Blossoming nightlife, a downtown revitalization project, and well-priced real estate are pumping new life into the heart of the Commonwealth. Is Worcester finally coming into its own? There's renewed pride and promise in the city's biotechnology firms and community-minded colleges." Clark University President John Bassett, Writing Center Director Jennifer Plante, and Student Council President Ifrad Islam are interviewed as part of the "Chronicle HD" news magazine feature. Video is available online.

Rights in the Workplace
New York Times (Letters) 09/07/2009
In a letter to the editor, Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University, writes: "Your Sept. 3 editorial 'Workers in America, Cheated' rightly protests the poor treatment of many workers for whom 'having to work sick, injured or off the clock is the price of having a job.' Only through comprehensive "rights training" can we truly empower workers to demand their rights at work."

This Day in Scientific History (Freud Gives 1st American Lecture)
A Boat Against the Current (blog) 09/07/2009
"Speaking extemporaneously in German, tossing unexpected one-liners into the mix, Sigmund Freud delivered the first of five lectures on his revolutionary method for treating mental illness--psychoanalysis--in a country that embraced his pioneering work far more quickly than Europe ever did In late August, Freud and disciples Carl Jung and Sandor Ferenczi had disembarked from the George Washington before traveling to Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where the Austrian physician was set to speak "

Justin Hollander, Author, "Polluted & Dangerous"
C-Span "Washington Journal" 09/06/2009
Justin Hollander, author of "Polluted & Dangerous" and research fellow at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, discusses efforts by five cities to redevelop abandoned industrial sites.

Clark Notes Centenary of Historic Freud Visit
Psychiatric News 09/04/2009
"Once upon a time, Sigmund Freud came to America. He walked (in Central Park), he talked (at Clark University). Then he returned home to Vienna. While here, he accepted the only honorary degree he would ever receive and retained his jaundiced view of the United States. His influence on the mind and its workings, however, traveled outward from that week in September a hundred years ago to rise and fall in the New World for the next half century. To mark the centenary of Freud's visit, Clark University has planned two conferences, one from October 3 to 5 and another on November 21. Sophie Freud, granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, is one of the speakers. "

100 Years of Freud
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio 09/04/2009
Robert Tobin, the Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Clark University, is interviewed by Ross Reynolds (Clark '75), host of "The Conversation" onKUOW Seattle. "A century ago a little known Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud came to the U.S. to lecture on how the human mind works. Freud's theories were enormously influential in the last century, but what's his legacy today?"

Shrewsbury teachers and students head back to class
Shrewsbury Chronicle 09/03/2009
"After earning her masters degree in teaching from Clark University, new Oak Middle School seventh grade science teacher Elin Dolen spent the past four years working for the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) as a science teacher and was the Science Department chairwoman her final year at LACES. "

From barroom to classroom Woman fulfills dream as art professor at Clark
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 09/01/2009
"To be an artist, Toby Sisson thought while growing up in Minneapolis, you had to be white, male, European and dead. Born to an African-American and Cherokee father and a German-American mother, she didn't see too many artists that looked like her. It was only at the age of 35, while attending a friend's art show, that she considered making a career out of what she loved. "I just thought it was so amazing," said Ms. Sisson, 52, who moved to Worcester this summer to prepare for her first full-time job outside of bartending, as an assistant studio art professor at Clark University. "

Health care a top priority for unions
Marketplace American Public Media 09/01/2009
"President Obama is speaking to the AFL-CIO today in Cincinnati, Ohio, addressing labor unions and health care. Gary Chaison teaches labor relations at Clark University. He says unions have had to make a lot of concessions in the health arena. ..."

Turkey and Armenia set for ties
BBC News 09/01/2009
Turkey and its neighbour Armenia have moved closer to establishing diplomatic ties after decades of bitter mistrust on both sides. Dr Taner Akcam, a professor of History at Clark University in the U.S., said the historic breakthrough' was due to increased democratisation in Turkey, the reduced influence of the military in the political sphere, as well as increased international attention on the Caucasus, particularly on the issue of opening borders for trade."

Big Labor Leader is Old School Writ Large 09/01/2009
"Many younger workers don't see unions as relevant. This week, Richard Trumka, a third-generation coal miner likely this month to assume the helm of the nation's largest labor federation, is launching Big Labor's latest effort to change that. Trumka looks tough and talks tough,' said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. ..."

The Daughter-in-Law Rules
Newsblaze.com 08/31/2009
"Your mother-in-law is coming! As she is due to arrive in a couple of hours, your hands sweat and your heart begins to palpitate. Will your house be neat enough? Can you possibly live up to her standards? Will anything you do be to her satisfaction? Help! Sound familiar? Millions of women have strained or even outright hostile relationships with their "MIL" (mother-in-law). A survey of 53 daughter and mother-in-law couples conducted by Deborah Merrill PhD, a sociologist at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, showed the extent of the problem. Only 30 percent of mothers and daughters-in-law reported tight-knit relationships with little or no conflict. The other whopping 70 percent fell into the categories of cordial, obligatory, and even estranged. "

Books of War
Newsweek 08/31/2009
Listed among the "10 most essential books focusing on various aspects of the war in Poland," is "Auschwitz," by Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust history and director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and Robert Jan Van Pelt."How could an apparently ordinary town become evil embodied, the most notorious site of the 20th century? Dwork and Van Pelt begin their story in 1270, with the founding of the Polish town Oswiecim (renamed Auschwitz by the Germans), and demonstrate the key role that it played for both countries over the next 700 years. "

Freud's Adirondack Vacation
New York Times Op-ed 08/29/2009
"Sigmund Freud arrived in Hoboken, N.J., 100 years ago today on his first and only visit to the United States. He came to lecture on psychoanalysis and to receive an honorary degree from Clark University, in Worcester, Mass. It was, he said, 'an honorable call,' a mark of his academic success. Freud was then 53 and had been practicing for 23 years. "

Judge D'Army Bailey is retiring -Going private after 19 years on bench
Memphis Commercial Appeal 08/28/2009
"Longtime Circuit Court Judge D'Army Bailey [Clark Class of'65] said Friday he is stepping down from the bench to practice law and to promote a new book on his civil rights experiences from the early 1960s. Bailey, 67, who was first elected in 1990, has been re-elected twice since then and has five years remaining on his current term.

Clark Psychology Professor Wendy Grolnick releases 'Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids'
University Parent 08/28/2009
"Author offers advice on how to channel competitive anxieties into positive parenting A new book co-authored by Clark University Psychology Professor Wendy Grolnick titled "Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child" is a useful, accessible guide to help panicky parents deal with the torrential emotions stirred up by today's competitive society and redirect their competitive anxieties into positive parenting. "

Freud in Massachusetts
BBC/Public Radio International/WGBH "The World" 08/28/2009
"100 years ago, Sigmund Freud made his first and only trip to the United States to deliver a series of lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jeb Sharp talks to Clark University archivist Mott Linn about the historic visit."

Janitors want jobs with justice
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 08/28/2009
In an "as I See It" opinion piece, Robert J.S. Ross, Clark Professor of Sociology and director of the International Studies Stream, writes: "An often cited proposition by conservatives (and others) is that 'the best antipoverty policy is a good job.' Local janitors are saying this: Help us make our jobs good enough to support our families."

Toyota to Close Union Plant in California
New York Times 08/28/2009
"DETROIT -- Toyota's directors voted Thursday to close the company's only unionized plant in the United States, a joint venture with General Motors in California that G.M. abandoned as part of its recent bankruptcy. Given that the vehicles built at Nummi are selling well, Gary N. Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the Fremont plant's unionized status probably sealed its fate as Toyota evaluated where to make cuts. "

UAW bristles as Ford seeks further concessions
The Associated Press 08/27/2009
"The amicable relationship Ford Motor Co. has shared for decades with the United Autos Workers union may be on the verge of cracking, as the automaker seeks to cut its labor costs at time when it is in a far stronger position than its U.S. competitors. 'This means it's difficult for them now to suddenly claim poverty,' said Gary Chaison, professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. ..." This article ran in multiple media outlets including the Chicago Tribune, NewsFlash/mlive.com, Forbes.com, thestreet.com, Taiwan News Online, CNBC, Yahoo, and others.

From the land of Kennedy
Seattle Post Intelligencer 08/27/2009
In her "At large in Ballard" blog, writer Peggy Sturdivant (mother of a Clark first-year) writes: "There are 557 incoming freshman being welcomed to the Clark University Class of 2013. The President tells them he hopes they will not just be future leaders but leaders now. Good listeners as well as good speakers. The Dean of the College says that we must 'release the threads that bind you' He concludes his speech with the words, 'Well done and bon voyage,' I do begin to cry the way my daughter has feared, but I'm not thinking about these freshman, I'm thinking about Ted Kennedy."

Flight from the Reich: An Interview with Deborah Dwork
Armenian Weekly 08/27/2009
Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark , discusses her new book, "Flight from the Reich: Jewish Refugees, 1933-1946" (2009), coauthored with Robert Jan van Pelt, in an interview conducted by Armenian Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian. The book "focuses on the ever dwindling choices open to refugees, and the often painful decisions of the people who dealt with them It is a story with which Dwork has personal connection: she is related by friendship and kinship to many people who left Nazi Europe as refugees, and to a few who had the opportunity to flee, chose to remain, and survived."

Michael Ross wants neighborhoods -- and universities -- to thrive
BU Today 08/27/2009
Boston University profiles Clark alumnus Michael Ross '93, Boston city councilor running for reelection: "Volunteers for his reelection bid to the Boston City Council are making themselves comfortable around the kitchen table. The 13-member council includes 4 councilors elected by all Boston voters, and 9 district councilors, including Ross, who was first elected in 1999. Council president since January, he is one of four candidates with ties to BU; 3 are among the 15 running for at-large seats. After graduating from Clark University, Ross landed a job at city hall as part of the team that developed Boston's first Web site. "

Sigmund Freud, homeland security and the Irish: Their history on the Hoboken waterfront
The Jersey Journal 08/26/2009
"Sunday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m.: Dr. John Burnham, Research Professor of History at Ohio State University presents 'Analyze This: Freud's 1909 Visit to America through Hoboken's Port.' 100 years ago, Freud passed through Hoboken on his way to a speaking engagement at Clark University. Burnham will read passages from one of Freud's previously untranslated letters describing his arrival in the New World. And Monday, Sept. 21, the anniversary of Freud's arrival in Hoboken will be commemorated with a brief event in Pier A Park at 11 a.m."

Sen. Kennedy's labor legacy
Marketplace Morning Report public radio 08/26/2009
Gary Chaison, labor professor at Clark University, talks with Steve Chiotakis about Sen. Kennedy's role in changing many of the country's labor laws and his most important contribution to health care.

Ford to meet UAW leaders today
Detroit Free Press 08/25/2009
"Ford Motor Co. is expected to put at least two issues on the table today when it meets with UAW officials: freezing pay for entry-level workers and reducing skilled-trades job classifications. 'It's going to be incredibly delicate,' said Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. ..."

Labor Leader Named Head of New York Fed
Wall Street Journal 08/25/2009
"The ascension of a labor leader is a new twist for the New York Fed and a sign of the public pressure the Fed has been under to loosen its close ties to Wall Street. 'In the old days, labor was on the outside looking in,' said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University. "

Nonfiction Reviews
Publishers Weekly 08/24/2009
"The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, 19591964," by Clark alumnus Judge D'Army Bailey Class of '65, with Roger Easson, is reviewed. "Bailey, now a Tennessee circuit court judge, was one of 'hundreds of student leaders' expelled from black Southern colleges in the 1960s for political activities. A scholarship for expelled Southern students led him north to Clark University, where his education and activism continued In focusing tightly on those 'foot soldier' years that shaped his adult convictions, 'the story of my life as a college student caught up in the movement,' Bailey takes the reader inside the student debates and deliberations, the organizing and strategizing activities of the early '60s, adding a valuable dimension to the history of the civil rights movement.

The NY Fed's Denis Hughes: ‘Not your Grandfather's Labor Union'
Wall Street Journal Deal Journal blog 08/24/2009
"Is organized labor gaining power in the U.S. or are its leaders being co-opted by the federal government and corporate America? The question is at the heart of today's appointment of Denis Hughes, the New York state AFL-CIO president, as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Deal Journal asked Gary Chaison Professor of Industrial Relations Clark University in Worcester, Mass., what these recent moves say about the influence and strategy of organized labor in the U.S. "

'Lost Boy' of Sudan giving back to his adopted country
Taunton Daily Gazette 08/24/2009
"Among the staffers serving food at the Arciero and Eldridge grill was one of the 'Lost Boys' of Sudan, who spent many years in two Red Cross refugee camps before ultimately landing in Westford. Dan Nhial, 29, is an intern for state Rep. Jim Arciero. Nhial is motivated by a keen desire 'to give back' to his adopted country after so many years of hell in Africa. 'There are some governments that are good and some that are bad,' said Nhial as he wove his tale of horror. He wanted to work for the U.S. government after being rescued and flown stateside. He took a college placement test, and received his degree in government from Clark University last spring. "

It's a trap with no warning, and so tough to get out
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram 08/23/2009
In a feature story subtitled, "Young athletes have to be aware of the perils of eating disorders, and the long-term and possibly deadly effects," Clark student Jill Johnson talks about her battle with anorexia: "I decided to be really healthy," said Johnson, now 20 and a junior at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "At first it was healthy. I watched what I was eating. I was running a lot. And it was fine."

Rank and file
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (College Town) 08/23/2009
"National rankings came out last week and some local schools received high honors. In the 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges by U.S. Media Group, the College of the Holy Cross ranked 36 on the "Best Liberal Arts Colleges" list. WPI ranked 68 and Clark University ranked 88 in the top 128 Best National Universities category. Clark also ranked 35 among 50 National Universities in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category. " For more on the rankings, visit http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.

Carcieri nominates 3 for RI judgeships
Providence Journal 08/21/2009
Rhode Island Gov. Carcieri nominated Brian P. Stern "to fill the Superior Court opening created by Mark A. Pfeiffer's retirement in January. Stern, 42, became the governor's chief of staff in March 2007 after working for the Departments of Administration and Business Regulation. Stern holds a bachelor of arts degree from Clark University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. "

Machinists, attendants may face fight at Delta
Reuters 08/21/2009
"Unions seeking to represent more than 30,000 workers at Delta Air Lines Inc and its Northwest subsidiary could face an uphill battle in elections that could open the door for more collective bargaining and potentially higher labor costs. Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the industry slump could spur more votes for the unions. ..."

Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability
KOPN 89.5 FM (Columbia, Missouri) 08/20/2009
Associate Professor of Government Valerie Sperling discusses her new book "Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability" in an interview on the radio show "A Chautauqua." The weekly hour features "local and nationally recognized guests who are exploring innovations and traditions on the leading edge of personal and cultural change."

Longtime Resident's Goal Is to Help Students Learn
Hartford Courant (CT) 08/20/2009
"Untapped Talent of Hershey, Pa., recently released its third book, "Study Tips 101: 101 Secrets for Studying Success." The author, Joshua Shifrin, grew up in West Hartford Shifrin earned his B.A. in psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his M.S. in Educations Psychology, as well as his Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in School Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston. He worked as a nationally certified school psychologist for five years, before enrolling at Florida State University, where he is a doctoral candidate in a combined counseling psychology and school psychology Ph.D. program."

Workplace suicides surge by 28 percent
The Associated Press 08/20/2009
"Workplace suicides surged 28 percent last year, the Labor Department said Thursday, as anxious workers dealt with a struggling economy and watched colleagues depart in a rash of layoffs. Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the numbers suggest the struggling economy taking a toll on worker morale." Chaison's comments to The AP are also included in reports by the Indianapolis Star (8/20), EmpowHer/Women's Health online (8/21), the World Socialist Web Site (8/21), and others.

Lesbian and gay parents and their children
WHMP Radio (Northampton, MA) 08/19/2009
Abbie Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology was interviewed on The Bill Dwight Show: "Hooray for Barney Frank! Way to slap down the stupid! Dr. Abbie Goldberg tries to do the same, in a much more polite, measured way, by taking on the myth that gay people aren't fit parents."

Sudanese who killed American spared death sentence
Washington Post 08/13/2009
"An appeals court commuted the death sentences for four men convicted of killing an American diplomat and his Sudanese driver after the driver's family decided to pardon the murderers, " Clark Alumnus John Granville (IDSC/MA '04) was killed by gunmen on Jan. 1, 2008, in Khartoum, Sudan.

Union seeks vote for Delta workers
Pioneer Press (Twin Cities-MN) 08/13/2009
"Delta's 13,000 flight attendants are not unionized. That vote on union representation is expected in coming months. We're really dealing here with two (airlines) that are quite different on unionization and attitude,' said Gary Chaison, an airline labor expert and professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass."

Is Globalization Good For Democracy?
New Hampshire Public Radio 08/12/2009
"is globalization good for democracy? That's the central question driving Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability, a new book by Valerie Sperling, professor of government and international relations at Clark University. She joined us with a new, more nuanced view of globalization through the prism of accountability. "

Looking to past to define future
Worcester Telegram 08/11/2009
Often people conducting nature surveys have little historical data to compare their work to. He said that with plants in Worcester County, there is some significant historical data available to work with. It turns out a plant survey of Worcester County has been done before by an amateur botanical club at Clark University. Between the 1930s and the early 1950s, members of the Hadwen Botanical Club focused on collecting all the plant species they could find in Worcester County. The club is now defunct and the collection has since been taken to Maine, but the records of the tens of thousands of species are still available at Clark University.

Admissions 106: If I Had To Apply Again
Reform Judaism magazine Fall 2009 08/11/2009
"One of the best ways to approach the college admissions process is to take advice from students and recent grads who've gone through it. Here's what six students say about what they'd do now if they were doing it all over again: Deena, Clark University, Class of 2008: I only toured four schools. I got lucky because I fell in love with one of them, applied, and got in. But it's a good idea to see more. What if I hadn't gotten in?' "

Too Young for a Midlife Crisis
Washington Post 08/10/2009
Call it a quarter-life crisis, the 20-something version of a midlife crisis, in which sufferers struggle to establish their sense of identity and purpose. with the tumultuous economy and job market meltdown of the past year, recent grads are getting a double helping of quarter-life anxiety. Unlike young adults of generations past, many of whom were married and settled in their careers by their mid-20s, today's college grads experience a longer period of transition to the settled-down stage, said Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a research professor of psychology at Clark University in Massachusetts and author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From Late Teens Through the Twenties.' "

College enrollment keeps pace; Numbers defy schools' fears
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 08/09/2009
"Application season last year wasn't a comfortable time for many of the area's private colleges and universities. In the winter, admissions officers were bombarded with depressing news about the economy. Where we are (as private colleges) is a bit of a pleasant surprise,' said Donald Honeman, dean of admissions at Clark University. At the end of the day, it wasn't as seismic a change as we thought it would be.' "

Generation in flux
Boston Globe 08/08/2009
"Jeffrey Jensen Arnett does a fair amount of public speaking about his concept of emerging adulthood,' the notion that there is now a new phase of life somewhere in between adolescence and adulthood, a period of exploration and experimentation that can last well into the late 20s. " Arnett is a research professor in the psychology department at Clark University.

Susan Fingerhut – just a wine lovin' transplanted Jersey Girl
Bandera County Courier (TX) 08/06/2009
"It was a long and winding road for a self-described wine-lovin' Jersey Girl,' but Susan Fingerhut finally made it to the Texas Hill Country and now she stays busy promoting the fruit of the grape in the Lone Star State. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1981, she spent the next 10 years as an advertising executive in New York City. "

One Hundred Years of Freud in America
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2009
Daniel Akst writes about Freud's disdain toward America and America's love for the renowned psychoanalyst. " Freud went on to Worcester, Mass., where on the morning of Sept. 7 he gave the first of his famous Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis' at Clark University. At first Freud had been unwilling to accept Clark's invitationthe impetus for the whole journeybecause it would have meant losing patient fees in Vienna. But Clark's president, the psychologist G. Stanley Hall, rescheduled Freud's appearance The impact of Freud's talks was enormousand enduring. "

When pigs fly
Worcester Magazine 08/06/2009
"We've all seen the movies about whistleblowers and other Davids who take down corporate Goliaths; Erin Brockovich, A Civil Action, Silkwood. But the truth is, part of what makes the movies great is that such success stories are so exceedingly rare that they're actually wondrous things. (Clark geography professor) Jody Emel knows a little about experiencing that sense of wonder. Emel and other members of the Geography Department at Clark traveled to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, witnessing how the people lived and learning more about their struggle against the agricultural companies. "

Clark offers five years
Worcester Magazine 08/06/2009
"At a time when so many people are wondering how they are going to pay for college, it's rare for a school to give anything away for free, let alone a complete master's degree. But that is exactly what Clark University is doing, and has been doing for years. It really is a tremendous benefit for young students who have finished a liberal arts undergraduate degree and are looking to continue on with their studies,' says Max Hess, advisor for two of Clark's accelerated programs. "

Imaginary friends boost language skills - study
New Zealand Herald 08/06/2009
"Having an imaginary friend as a child boosts language development and may enhance academic performance, according to new research. In a study in the latest issue of the journal Child Development, Otago University associate professor Elaine Reese, and former student Gabriel Trionfi, of Clark University in the United States, investigated the language skills of 48 boys and girls aged 5-1/2 " The piece also ran in the online blog site Voxy.co.nz.

Iraqi Refugees Make American Road Trip
The Huffington Post 08/05/2009
"Declining to give surnames for fear of identifying family back home, Fouad, 20, and Ahmed, 17, are beneficiaries of the Iraqi Student Project http://iraqistudentproject.org/, a non-profit with the goal of persuading American colleges and universities to provide tuition waivers for Iraqi refugees seeking undergraduate degrees. This whole road trip is to get more people interested in those Iraqi students who can't go to college,' Fouad explained The 20-year-old, who fled Baghdad for Damascus in 2005 with his family, starts his freshman year this fall at Clark University in Worchester, Mass., where he'll study Engineering. "

Area students record life stories of Bangor’s homeless
Bangor Daily News 08/04/2009
Class of 2006 Clark alumna Alexandra "Alex" Kelly's project, "Listen to This: Recording Stories of Bangor's Homeless," is featured. "Kelly spent most of last year traveling around the country for StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate people's lives through listening. Each conversation is recorded on a CD given to the participants, and is archived at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C."

School cuts violate social contract
Cape Cod Times 08/03/2009
In an Opinion piece, John Pierre Ameer, associate professor of education at Clark University, writes: "When we cut essential funding for public schooling and tolerate discrepancies in school quality from district to district, we not only limit the future opportunities for many of our children, but also violate the social contract that defines our democracy." Ameer is a Yarmouth resident and member of Support Our Schools, an advocacy committee on behalf of Dennis-Yarmouth students.

Careers that change the world
Boston Globe 08/02/2009
"To hone skills and make you more appealing to prospective employers, Clark University's Graduate School of Management in Worcester plans to begin offering courses leading to an MBA degree in Social Change this fall. The program, which melds business courses with studies in social change, will "open doors to new corporate jobs" with firms eager to promote corporate social responsibility, says Lynn Davis, the graduate school's director of enrollment and marketing. Leslie Markham, 24, of Pepperell, who will begin Clark's Social Change MBA program this fall, says social change issues have become an increasingly important part of both her life and the lives of her colleagues. "

The Untouchables Are Killing Health Care Reform
The Huffington Post 07/31/2009
From an op-ed posted by Robert J. S. Ross, director of the International Studies Stream and professor of sociology at Clark University: "Two untouchables in the health care reform debate may condemn it to failure. The first is the Beltway aversion to broad-based taxes for social insurances -- like the payroll tax that now funds Medicare. Without it, the increased costs of extending or mandating health insurance coverage to everyone look gigantic..."

William Tapply, 69, prolific writer of mysteries, nonfiction
Boston Globe 07/31/2009
To look at William G. Tapply's bibliography, it's difficult to imagine the moment in the early 1980s when the manuscript for his first book landed back in his mailbox with an editor's rejection letter that nonetheless encouraged him to keep trying. He taught social studies and was an administrator for a quarter century at Lexington High School, until turning to writing full time in the late 1980s. He also taught at Emerson College and at Clark University in Worcester, where he was an English professor and writer-in-residence.

As work force grays, employers lag behind
MSNBC 07/29/2009
Older workers need flexibility, training, but often fail to get it ... Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark's Graduate School of Management, comments: "Most employers look at training as a long-term investment and are hesitant to spend money on training and recruiting workers that aren't going to stay for that long."

Weston native creates Web site for 'TruFans’
Westport News (CT) 07/29/2009
"Being a sports fan now is a fully interconnected online experience. Rafe Anderson and the company of which he is CEO, TruMedia Networks, launched 122 sports-fan sites under the umbrella URL TruFan.com in late June. The sites are designed to get fans of MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL teams chatting, sharing news and notes and, of course, talking smack with like-minded fans. Anderson, a Sox fan from his youth living in Maine and a recent graduate in computer science from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., knew he had to be a part of it. I was able to apply my marketing and technology background in an area I was really passionate about,' Anderson said."

NE Basketball Hall announces 2009 high school inductees
Boston Globe 07/28/2009
The annual Clark University high school tournament, held every year since 1939 in Worcester, will receive a special honor. Two of the major contributors to the success of the tournament, late Clark AD Russ Granger, and former Northbridge High boys' coach and AD John Doldoorian, will also be inducted, along with three of the finest players in tournament history, Paul Baker (Northbridge), Bill Herrion (Oxford), and Cliff Smith (Leicester), will also be honored. The announcement also ran in the Worcester Telegram (7/28) article: Clark Tourney to be honored.

A Postcard From the Pleistocene
New York Times 07/24/2009
In his environmental Dot Earth blog, Times writer Andrew Revkin features the Polaris Project, "a fascinating scientific and educational expedition under way on one of the more remote, unusual rivers on the planet, the Kolyma in eastern Siberia." Clark assistant professor of geography Karen Frey is co-PI, leading three Clark students on the research expedition. The Times post includes a dispatch by Blaize Denfeld '10. The Polaris Project was also written up in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette's "College Town" section (7/26).

In an Uncertain Summer, Colleges Try to Control Enrollment 'Melt'
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/24/2009
"Graduates of Clark University, in Massachusetts, are also doing more to welcome incoming students. Two years ago, the admissions office turned its anti-melt receptions' over to alumni after determining that new students wanted to meet more of them. Each summer, Clark graduates throughout the nation hold about a dozen gatherings for freshmen and alumni. Students expect more in terms of communication now,' says Tricia L. Uber, Clark's director of admissions. This gives them a connection between their home and their future home.' "

Governor tours Main South
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 07/23/2009
Gov. Deval L. Patrick toured the Main South community, remarking on improvements under way in the Gardner-Kilby-Hammond district. "The governor met with city officials, neighborhood groups and agencies, as well as officials from another partner in the effort, Clark University, at the new Boys & Girls Club, and he laid out a series of new funding plans to keep the effort going." New England Cable News and WCTR-Charter TV 3 coverage included comments by Jack Foley, Clark vice president for government and community affairs.

Separating science and fiction
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 07/22/2009
An "As I See It" op-ed piece by Clark physics and education professor S. Leslie Blatt begins, "As our nation celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first human footsteps on the moon, I have been musing on the convoluted history of the space program and on the lost opportunities that may lie ahead if we don't learn from that episode in the ongoing tension between science and politics."

Panera bakes a recipe for success
USA Today 07/22/2009
"The worst recession in a generation has brought most of the restaurant industry to its knees. That may leave Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich (Clark Class of '76) the last man standing. The restaurant industry suffered its worst quarterly decline in customer traffic in 28 years in the second quarter, reports researcher NPD Group. But Panera (PNRA) quarterly results, due Tuesday, are expected to be fine. While an undergrad at Clark University, he helped open a non-profit convenience store on campus to raise money for charity. That's where it all began. It's as close to being an artist as I can ever get,' he says. I can't sing or dance. This is my creativity.' "

A conversation with psychologist Abbie Goldberg
Daily Hampshire Gazette 07/22/2009
Clark assistant professor of psychology Abbie Goldberg in interviewed about "Gay and lesbian parenting what the studies show." She also was interviewed live (July 15) for the Midweek Politics Radio show, "Lesbian and gay parents and their children," on WXOJ of Northampton, Mass. (www.midweekpolitics.com/shows/midweek-politics-with-david-pakman---07-15-2009.html)

Boston Globe labor agreement could help lure buyer
Associated Press 07/21/2009
Gary Chaison, professor of labor relations in Clark's Graduate School of Management, is quoted in articles about the Boston Globe's union vote to approve a contract calling for $10 million in annual cuts. The Associated Press story ran in hundreds of news outlets. Chaison was also quoted in a Bloomberg news report titled "Boston Globe Union Approve Cuts, Clears Sale Obstacle" (7/21/2009). (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a7llICXZS5BI)

Far and Away: The harrowing tales of those who fled the Third Reich
The New Republic 07/20/2009
"Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946," by Debrah Dwork, director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark, and Robert Jan Van Pelt, is reviewed by Adam Kirsch, a senior editor of The New Republic. The article originally appeared in Tablet Magazine.

The Violence We Ignore
National Public Radio 07/20/2009
A study on domestic violence against men, by Denise Hines, Clark research assistant professor of psychology, is mentioned during an NPR "Talk of the Nation" interview about how news sources failed to mention that the killing of a former NFL star was "a tragic case of domestic violence, in which the male was the victim."

Father of rocketry helped propel humankind into space
New England Cable Network/WCTR CH.3-TV 07/20/2009
Les Blatt, Clark physics and education professor, and Mott Linn, head of collections management at Goddard Library, are interviewed in a news segment about Robert Goddard's legacy and Worcester connections.

Father of rocket science lands back in limelight
Associated Press 07/18/2009
The AP feature reports: "In the end, Robert Goddard had the last laugh. In 1920, he wrote a paper suggesting a rocket could carry enough explosives to reach high into space. The Clark College professor was widely ridiculed, including by The New York Times. By the time a rocket took men to the moon in 1969, Goddard had been dead 24 years. But he had already earned an enduring legacy as the father of American rocketry." Comments by Clark Physics Department chair Charles Agosta and Clark archivist Fordyce Williams are included in the report, which ran in The Boston Herald.

Father of Rocket Science Lands Back In Limelight
Boston Globe 07/18/2009
The AP feature report on Robert Goddard's legacy in rocketry and the space race that resulted in the moon landing, ran in several news outlets, including the Boston Globe, Washington Times, WHDH-TV Channel 7, WCVB-TV Channel 5, Washington (DC) Times, Union-News & Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA), Indiana Gazette, and more. Comments by Clark Physics Department chair Charles Agosta and Clark archivist Fordyce Williams are included in the report. Williams was also interviewed on WTAG radio in Worcester for news segments about the moon landing.

Can Nepal women 'untouchables' outlive tired caste systems?
Women News Network 07/17/2009
Bishnu Pariyar (IDSC/MA '07) is featured: "In 1996, Bishnu Maya Pariyar, a Dalit woman from the Gorkha Province of Western Nepal, formed a small micro-financed group of women known today as EDWON -- Empower Dalit Women of Nepal. Pariyar went on to receive a graduate degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2006. Today, her ideas to empower Dalit women have helped set in motion more than 700 secondary school scholarships for Dalit children and has helped over 1500 Dalit women."

A domestic violence victim
The Baltimore Sun 07/16/2009
Clark University research assistant Professor of psychology Denise Hines comments and her research is cited in an Opinion page piece referencing the killing of former NFL player Steve McNair. The commentary reports her findings on custody laws and primary aggressor laws, which "encourage police to discount who initiated and committed the violence but instead look at other factors that make them likelier to arrest men." The piece also ran in the Washington Times (7/14), and was the topic of the Men's News Daily blog post: "Researcher: What Happens When Abused Men Call Domestic Violence Hotlines and Shelters?" by Glenn Sacks, for Fathers & Families (7/13/2009).

Campus cuisine: Dorm cooking, dining hall options
Associated Press 07/14/2009
Clark student Emmeline Brown ('10), is included in a feature on dorm cooking. "These days, college students have gourmet palates and a growing interest in preparing their own food. " Brown, who writes a cooking column for the school newspaper, The Scarlet, mentions her favorite recipe, "Mexican steak salad. Easy, cheap, and so good!" The AP story appeared in 569 media outlets nationwide.

Artful taping to jumpstart stArt project
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 07/13/2009
Tina Zlody, Clark Visual & Performing Arts department secretary and co-director of stArt on the Street, and V&PA associate professor Marcia Butzel are in a feature about a tape sculpture project aiming to promote stART on the Street, an arts and music festival on Park Avenue Sept. 20.

Boys & Girls Club has proud lineage
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 07/13/2009
Columnist Clive McFarlane writes: Much has changed about the Boys & Girls Club since the city opened the first clubhouse in 1889 on the third floor of a laundry building on Barton Place in "four sparsely furnished rooms." The club's $9 million Tainter Street facility, which opened in 2006, thanks in part to the leadership and financial support of Clark University, the Main South CDC and the city, is a visual and political statement on how far it has come from its humble beginnings.

Lab seeking local help
The Berkshire Eagle 07/13/2009
A biotechnology firm that moved most of its operations from Pittsfield to Worcester last year is looking to hire locals for its new lab. Nuclea Biotechnologies LLC, which still maintains an office in Pittsfield, has begun operating a diagnostic laboratory last week after receiving a license from the state Board of Health in early June. The Worcester lab is located at Clark University, owner Patrick J. Muraca's alma mater, and will give the company the opportunity to adapt its intellectual property or patents in the area of personalized medicine for use at specific hospitals.

Phoenix, Portland study brings policy into focus
ASU News (Arizona State University) 07/13/2009
Phoenix and Portland: It is hard to imagine two more mismatched American cities When it comes to answering important scientific questions, however, differences can be a plus, inviting comparisons and bringing commonalities into sharper relief. Portland State University and Clark University in Worcester, Mass., will join DCDC in the research, which has received almost $300,000 from the Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program.

Dr. Kneller Dies at 82
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 07/13/2009
BROOKLYN -- Dr. John W. Kneller, who went from being a French professor and scholar to being president of Brooklyn College during the tempestuous, protest-filled 1970s, died at 82 on July 2 at his home in Westport, N.Y. He earned a B.A. from Clark University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. During World War II, he served as a translator for the Army Air Corps. ...

A semester in Beijing
Boston Globe 07/12/2009
From the Globe Travel section feature World Class: Marlene McManus's path to China began on a spiritual note. After taking a class on Asian religions, the Clark University junior found herself drawn to classes in Chinese language, which eventually led to her spring semester at Beijing Institute of Education in a language immersion program. McManus detailed her trip more fully on her blog: marleneabroad.travellerspoint.com/.

Within you, without you
Financial Times, London 07/11/2009
Columnist Harry Eyres writes in the Financial Times: We associate transformation from within more readily with psychoanalysis than with banking or politics. It could apply in the financial world, where what is needed, arguably, is not more rules imposed from outside but a change of culture or ethos from within. When Freud visited the US in 1909 with his colleagues Jung and Ferenczi to give a series of lectures at Clark University, he was filled with a kind of ironic excitement at the considerable interest his visit provoked. As they arrived on the steamer George Washington in New York, he is said to have remarked to Jung: "Little do they know we are bringing the plague!"

School District Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant
The Ledger, Lakeland, FL 07/10/2009
What can $1 million buy you? How about world-class professors, trips to Charleston, S.C., and New England, and a partnership with national historical societies? Professors at the University of Florida and Clark University in Worcester, Mass., will instruct about 125 eighth- and 11th-grade teachers. ... Grant partners include The National Council for History Education, Bill of Rights Institute, Foundation for Teaching Economics, Dr. Sean Adams, history professor at the University of Florida; Dr. Jack Larkin, professor at Clark University; Old Sturbridge Village, Charleston Museum, and Plimoth Plantation.

A Life of Rigorous Science Leads to an Island Sanctuary
The Shelter Island Reporter - NY 07/09/2009
A profile of Ann Brunswick, retired, who was the "senior research scientist at Columbia University's School of Public Health. She graduated from Hunter College at 19, (she's now in the Hunter College Hall of Fame) and she won a scholarship to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she majored in psychology. 'I loved it there,' she remembered." (Subscription required to view article.)

MASSPIRG: It was 20 years ago today…
Metro International, U.S. issue 07/09/2009
From an op-ed by Janet Domenitz, Executive Director of MASSPIRG, and Jim Gomes, Director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University: With apologies to the Beatles, it was actually twenty years ago this month, in July of 1989, when Massachusetts' landmark Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) was passed into law and signed by Governor Michael Dukakis. TURA is an important program that works and that more than pays for itself. The governor and legislature should have known better than to put it at risk. Unless they act to restore the program, it won't be long until toxics use and waste get back to where they once were.

Tribute bands find a lasting following
Boston Globe 07/09/2009
Arts article features the band Harry and The Potters and their "original Hogwarts-inspired tunes." Clark senior Joe DeGeorge and his brother Paul make up the popular band. "Outside the band though, life goes on. Joe is now a senior studying physics at Clark University, and Paul's career has taken an enviable turn. Between Potters shows, running the Harry Potter Alliance (a social justice nonprofit that he cofounded), and managing his online Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club, DeGeorge is fully employed by Potter-related activities."

Labor has pivotal role in keeping 787 production in Washington
Puget Sound Business Journal - Seattle 07/08/2009
Labor experts believe that Boeing's largest union is more likely to agree to a contract extension than a semi-permanent no-strike clause. Extended labor contracts are becoming more common, especially in the recession, and might be a reasonable way for the union to respond to management's need for stability, said Gary Chaison, professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Hold The Line
Worcester Business Journal 07/06/2009
Most colleges and universities in the area are trying to hold costs down, but a review by the Worcester Business Journal shows that overall, students and their parents can expect to pay more in the fall. Clark University raised its tuition for the fall to $34,900 from $33,900, while the College of the Holy Cross, raised tuition from $36,710 to $38,180.

150,000-year-old whine
Boston Globe 07/04/2009
Whining just might be evolutionary. That's the theory that sprang, several years ago, from researchers at Worcester's Clark University, led by evolutionary psychologist Nicholas Thompson.

Combative Union Leader Steps From the Shadows
New York Times 07/03/2009
Richard Trumka is expected to easily win election as A.F.L.-C.I.O. president at the federation's convention in September. "He represents old labor," said Gary N. Chaison, a labor relations professor at Clark University. "I think he will be a real different type of leader."

A tale of Pincus and The Pill
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 07/02/2009
An "AS I SEE IT" column discusses a recently published biography of Gregory Pincus, co-founder of the Worcester Foundation at Clark University in 1943 (which relocated to Shrewsbury in 1947). Pincus co-discovered, with M.C. Chang at the Foundation, the unanticipated ovulation-inhibiting property of an orally active hormone ("SC 4642"), ultimately known as "The Pill." Pincus co-founded the Foundation with Hudson Hoagland, a professor and chairman of the Biology Department at Clark at the time.

When fleeing does not mean escaping
Jerusalem Post 07/02/2009
"Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946," by Debrah Dwork, director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark, and Robert Jan Van Pelt, is reviewed: "This many-angled look at Jewish refugees before, during and after World War II is instructive and innovative. Stripped of their homes, languages, families, roots and sense of belonging, refugee survivors share "a history characterized by adjustment and adaptation, and marked by loss and a thread of loneliness. Constructive lives, and lives slightly apart. Never quite at home." The book is also reviewed in Open Letters (June), a monthly arts and literature review, and in Tablet, a daily online magazine. Open Letters writes: "this is a great and powerful book, a fitting bookend for Richard Evans' recently completed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and a masterpiece in its own right."

Clark Alum Jeff Cohen Named Men's Lacrosse Coach
LaxPower 06/30/2009
Athletic Director Linda Moulton has announced the hiring of alum Jeff Cohen '02 as the new head men's lacrosse coach.

Now Hiring: Contract Workers? May data show employers are hanging on to contract workers since they remain wary of bringing on full-timers
Business Week 06/30/2009
Management Professor Gary Chaison tells Business Week, "we might be at the trough of the recession, and we might be heading into a time of large-scale hiring of contract workers."

A Field Course in the Siberian Arctic: 30 Days, 20 People, 3 Continents, 1 Barge
EOS 06/30/2009
An article about the Polaris Project was published in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Three Clark University students and co-principal investigator Prof. Karen Frey are project participants. Clark AGU is one of the world's largest scientific societies, and 50,000+ members receive EOS each week.

Ruling has big impact for employers
American Public Media Marketplace 06/29/2009
Gary Chaison, labor relations professor at Clark University, was interviewed about a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that decided in favor of a group of white firefighters who say they were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. Chaison said "the case clearly establishes the law on reverse discrimination. Chaison says promotion tests are commonly used as a way to foster diversity in the workplace. But he says today's ruling means employers will have to be much more careful in how they craft those policies."

Ruling has big impact for employers
Marketplace 06/29/2009
Professor Gary Chaison was interviewed about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of a group of white firefighters who said they were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. Chaison said the case "clearly establishes the law on reverse discrimination."

No longer lost
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 06/28/2009
Clark alumnus Daniel Nhial 09 is featured. He was among the "Lost Boys of the Sudan," who resettled in the U.S. The article reports: "Daniel progressed so well in his courses that he decided to dual enroll at Clark University, rather than wait until he graduated from QCC and then transfer. This May he received both an associate's degree from QCC in general studies and a bachelor's degree from Clark in government and international relations."

There's No Way Back for Some Workers
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2009
Professor Gary Chaison comments on an article written by the WSJ's William McGurn, stating that McGurn "correctly identifies the path for the revival of Detroit as investment in and training for knowledge industries, e.g., information, finance, insurance, professional services, health care and education."

Nuclea Biotechnologies offering $3M in stock sale
Mass High Tech 06/26/2009
Nuclea Biotechnologies LLC, a genomic research firm in Pittsfield, has sold about $1 million of a $3 million stock offering, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Nuclea moved the majority of its research and scientific positions to Worcester, where the company has a collaboration with Clark University.

Will 'Neda' Video Become Icon for Ages?
AOL News 06/25/2009
Clark University sociology professor Robert J.S. Ross comments on iconic images of protest and violence, including the recent videotaped death of Neda Agha Soltan during election protests in Tehran (June 20), the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles (1991),the Ohio National Guard shootings at Kent State (1970), and the"Tank Man" at Tiananmen Square in China (1989).

Sudan: 4 sentenced to die for US diplomat killing
Associated Press 06/24/2009
A Sudanese court convicted four people in the slaying last year of America diplomat John Granville, and sentenced them to death. Granville a 2004 alumnus of Clark's International Development and Social Change master's program, was shot and killed early on Jan. 1, 2008 in Khartoum, Sudan. John had been working as an official in the area for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He had been helping to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan's north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war. Reports of the sentencing appeared in hundreds of news outlets, including BBC News, Reuters, and the Washington Post.

Two Minutes With...
Worcester Magazine 06/24/2009
Paul E. Phillips, head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Clark University, and assistant athletic director, is the subject of the weekly profile interview. He mentioned running a summer swim lesson program at Clark.

An ethnic occupation
Worcester T&G 06/21/2009
Mike Holbrook, senior business adviser/training director for the Small Business Development Center at Clark University is quoted in an article about a network of immigrants who are finding job opportunities in the region.

Guzman and Keamy are nominated for judgeships
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 06/19/2009
Gov. Deval L. Patrick yesterday announced the nominations of Margaret R. Guzman as judge of Dudley District Court and Leilah A. Keamy as a judge in the Worcester Probate and Family Court. Guzman graduated from Clark University (1989) and Boston University School of Law.

Adjusting to Life with a Roommate
Countdown to College Radio 06/19/2009
Denise Darrigrand, Dean of Students at Clark University, gives advice for students who will be sharing a room with one or more other students when they go off to college. She also describes Clark's "roommate agreement," which students from any school can adopt as a starting point for discussions about room cleanliness, using the room for socialization versus studying, sharing of personal items, and other issues that roommates need to work out. This episode was re-broadcast on radio station WNSH AM 1570 in the Boston area.

A Great Guy Thing
Worcester T&G 06/16/2009
Photo/caption coverage of the YWCA Daybreak Great Guy Awards shows Clark President John Bassett with Charlene Nemeth and Dennis Irish of St. Vincent Hospital. Along with Bassett and Irish, the awards for commitment to ending violence against women went to domestic violence counselor Nicholas Formaggia, and Richard Leahy, president of Webster Five Cents Savings Bank.

Visitors to website Sporcle learn geography and other subjects - and have fun
Boston Globe 06/16/2009
An article about Sporcle.com a popular online trivia quiz site and its appeal to geography clubs and others especially on college campuses -- includes comment by Deborah Martin, assistant professor of geography at Clark. She said that "geography's emphasis on space, place, and scale' can help students understand everything from border conflicts to economic development to global warming. "

Westport High School top 10 students
Fall River Herald News (MA) 06/15/2009
A local roundup of top scholars mentions one's choice to attend Clark: "A helpful and dependable peer tutor, Bridgette will major in English at Clark University. She quotes Ghandi, saying, You must be the change you want to see.' "

Meet the Judges
Worcester Business Journal 06/08/2009
David Jordan President & CEO, Seven Hills Foundation and adjunct professor at Clark is introduced as one of on the judging panel for the news outlet's 2009 Family-Owned Business Awards.

Signs of Life in a Recession
Worcester Business Journal 06/08/2009
Larry Marsh, director of the Small Business Development Center at Clark, is quoted in article subtitled "In the worst economy in 70 years, entrepreneurship carries on in Central Mass."

Signs of Life in a Recession
Worcester Business Journal 06/08/2009
Larry Marsh, director of the Small Business Development Center at Clark, is quoted in article subtitled "In the worst economy in 70 years, entrepreneurship carries on in Central Mass."

On the Job: Karen Frey, professor of geography
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 06/08/2009
Karen Frey, assistant professor of geography at Clark, feature in the Money section Q&A profile "On the Job."

Cuts threaten Worcester Boys and Girls Club
New England Cable News 06/04/2009
Clark vice president for government and community affairs Jack Foley is interviewed for a news segment about the impact of budget cuts to the organization, saying that the programs offered to the community are crucial.

Malden artist Sand T debuts "TOUCH ME NOT"
Boston Globe 06/02/2009
Article about artist Sand T's current exhibit cites her showing at Clark University in 2007 and also mentions Clark alumnus Nick Capasso '81, senior curator of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park of Lincoln.

A chemical reaction
Boston Globe - G Force magazine 06/01/2009
Clark alumna Mia Davis '01 IDSC/MA '03 is profiled: "Mia Davis must be feeling pretty good about her battle against BPA - a controversial, estrogen-like chemical used to make some hard plastic water bottles, and similar products. A few years ago, she alone ran the national campaign Detox Nalgene' out of Boston, telling anyone who would listen that the popular water bottle brand was leeching troubling levels of BPA into beverages. Her efforts paid off."

China privately pressured Nancy Pelosi
Politico (Washington, D.C.) 06/01/2009
"Srinivasan Sitaraman, a Clark University politics professor who studies China's human rights record, said Pelosi's credibility on the issue has been undermined by the release of the so-called Bush administration torture memos and, to a lesser extent, by the firestorm surrounding her own 2002 briefing on enhanced interrogations."

GM enters bankruptcy protection
BBC news 06/01/2009
"Car industry analyst Gary Chaison, a professor of labour relations at Clark University, said the GM announcement marked the end of an era. "It'll have a huge impact in the US because it's more than just a corporation - it's an icon," he added. "It represented manufacturing supremacy and good jobs for American workers - that's gone."

Freud in the New World
American Journal of Psychiatry (American Psychiatric Association) 06/01/2009
"Sigmund Freud visited the United States only once in his lifetime. The trip, up the eastern seaboard from New York to Boston and then to Niagara Falls, was organized around an invitation to lecture in Worcester, Mass., at Clark University, in honor of its 20th anniversary. The conference was held 100 years ago, in September 1909, and was hosted by Granville Stanley Hall, a pioneer American educator and psychologist."

100% graduating: Charter school grants diplomas to entire senior class
Memphis Commercial Appeal 05/30/2009
Clark University is mentioned in an article about graduation day at the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering. When the principal and founder "Henderson walks out with his class, former dean of admissions at Boston-based Clark University, Harold Wingood, will step in. Wingood's expertise in college admissions will help future MASE graduates transition to college, Henderson said."

Wingood Chosen to Lead Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering
Memphis Daily News 05/29/2009
"Being able to serve the community in a way that will make a difference is something at the core of my values system," Harold Wingood told the Memphis Daily News in an article about his new position as incoming Director of the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering. Wingood is leaving his position as associate provost and dean of admissions and financial aid at Clark.

In a restructured GM, no new role for UAW
Kansas City Star 05/28/2009
Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University comments on the news about GM: "You can see how uncomfortable the UAW has been in these negotiations," he said.

Old-fashioned values - Families find dining together solves problems
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 05/27/2009
Clark psychology professor and department chair Wendy Grolnick is quoted in the article: "It's important for families to take some time to connect to not just drive their kids places, but to have family time. It doesn't need to be around a table."

Trees of stone tell tropical tale
Science News magazine 05/26/2009
A report by Deborah Woodcock, a research fellow at The George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark, is featured.

GM filing will be lucrative for lawyers
UPI NewsTrack Business 05/26/2009
Gary Chaison, Clark University professor of industrial relations, comments in an article about legal fees expected in a possible General Motors Corp. bankruptcy filing. Chaison also commented on a Michigan Public Radio (5/27/09) segment, GM, UAW Reach Deal but Bankruptcy Still Probable.

Trees of stone tell tropical tale
Science News magazine 05/26/2009
News from a report in the July-August GSA Bulletin by Deborah Woodcock, a research fellow at The George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark, and colleagues is featured. It concerns how a Peruvian petrified forest offers insight into low-latitude conditions of millions of years ago.

Letter to the editor
Los Angeles Times 05/25/2009
Robert Ross, Clark sociology professor, responds to a column titled "Schwarzenegger missed his golden opportunity to give Californians the truth" by Michael Hiltzik. Ross writes: "I have taught urban affairs for over 30 years, but rarely have I seen a column about state and local government that was so on target with facts and frankness. I don't vote in California; if I did, I would look for a candidate to whom I could hand your column and say: Run on it."

City’s finest – Preservation Worcester offers tour of homes
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 05/24/2009
The "Living" section cover feature about a tour of homes (May 31) titled, "Worcester's Best: a Collection of Inviting Houses" showcases Harrington House at 130 Woodland, home to Clark President John Bassett and Kay Bassett. Mrs. Bassett discussed the home's restoration and value to the University and city community.

GM might still be headed toward Chapter 11
Los Angeles Times 05/21/2009
Los Angeles Times 5/21/09 GSOM professor of industrial relations Gary Chaison comments on GM's tentative pact with the United Auto Workers.

Activism cited as fine tradition
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 05/18/2009
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 5/18/09 "Newly minted Clark University graduates might just be crazy enough to change the world, student speaker Nora K. Feely said yesterday at commencement exercises at the Main Street campus. During the ceremony, degrees were granted to 928 Clark graduates, with 537 students receiving bachelor's degrees, 359 earning master's degrees and 32 obtaining their doctoral degrees." Clark's commencement information also appears in the Boston Globe's weekend graduations roundup, posted May 17.

A better fishing system
The Boston Globe 05/18/2009
The Boston Globe Op-ed 5/18/09 "New England's fisheries feed our region's cash flow and provide dinner for our tables. But by most measures the current management system of this vital industry has been a failure, and hasn't adequately protected the marine ecosystem nor promoted a profitable fishing industry," write Peter Baker, director of the Pew Environment Group's campaign to "End Overfishing in New England," and Clark University Marsh Institute director Robert Johnston, resource economist and co-author of the report "One Last Chance: The Economic Case for a New Approach to Fisheries Management in New England."

Making room at the table
Worcester Telegram 11/15/0208
" And at many local tables, there will be a few extra seats for doctors on call, international students, football players and others who can't get home to their own families to gobble a gobbler. Clark University makes a similar offer to its undergraduate international students, and Amy Daly Gardner, director of the Office of Intercultural Affairs, will host four today. "

D'Army Bailey: Activist, Attorney, Actor
Memphis Flyer
"From the sound of it, Memphis lawyer and former court judge D'Army Bailey [Clark Class of 1965] doesn't only think in complete sentences or full paragraphs. More like whole pages at a time. But drawn from a recent 50-minute phone conversation in time for the publication of Bailey's memoir The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey 1959-1964 (Louisiana State University Press), here's the gist of it "

Harley-Davidson Union Makes Concessions
Wall Street Journal
"Employees at Harley-Davidson Inc.'s largest factory agreed Wednesday to job cuts of nearly 50%, more work-rule flexibility and an unusually long labor deal, in exchange for the motorcycle maker's commitment to invest $90 million in the plant. It is rare for a union to agree to both deep job cuts and wage and benefit concessions, especially given the contract's length, said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "

Nuclea raises $3.4M in equity funding
Berkshire Eagle
"Nuclea Biotechnologies LLC has raised $3.4 million in private equity funding that it will use to fund its diagnostic and clinical laboratories at Clark University in Worcester. We needed the money to keep growing the clinical lab,' said Nuclea CEO Patrick J. Muraca, a Pittsfield native and Clark alumnus. "

OA Hall of Fame announces class of 2009
Easton Journal (MA)
The Oliver Ames High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee announced its inductees for its class of 2009. Included is Clark alumnus Amos Anderson, called one of the school's "most exciting players. Following a year at Bridgton Academy, where he played varsity hoops, he went on to Clark University. Anderson played forward at Clark, lettered all four years, and was a team captain as a senior."

Book review of 'The Education of a Black Radical' by D'Army Bailey...
Washington Post
" Like hundreds of other students on such campuses across the South, he was expelled for his activism. He was saved by a scholarship to a school he had never heard of, located in a city whose name he could not pronounce: Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where student leaders had launched a scholarship fund to benefit activists who faced expulsion. ... "

Loving the Earth
Worcester Telegram
"When world leaders meet at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week, two local residents will be there to witness what one UN official calls a historic turning point' in world climate-change negotiations. Jennie Stephens, an assistant professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University, will be an official observer at the conference. She and Philip Vergragt, an emeritus professor from Delft University and a research fellow at Clark's Marsh Institute, and international collaborators will present their research on the social and political implications of carbon capture and storage technology for climate change mitigation. "

Local brewing supplies
SunJournal.com (Lewiston, ME)
Clark alumnus and freelance writer Luke Livingston '07 writes about Maine's thriving craft beer and micro-brew scene.

Friends, family remember author, teacher William Tapply
GateHouse News Service/ Taunton Daily Gazette (MA)
" In the mid-1990s, Tapply began teaching at Clark University's English Department and was the department's writer-in-residence. Bill is irreplaceable, as far as our department is concerned,' said Jay Elliott, chairman of Clark's English Department. His classes always filled up fast, and he had a legitimacy that came from being a prolific, published writer, said Elliott. The students just knew they were getting the best, so they responded very well,' he said."

New faces join school board race
Worcester Telegram
"Among the incumbents, Mary J. Mullaney, a stay-at-home mom, and Jack L. Foley, vice president for government and community affairs at Clark University, ..."

Hubbardston's prankster
Worcester Telegram
Clark alumnus and columnist Albert B. Southwick writes about the town of Hubbardston: " sometimes called Hubbardstown' in the old documents has had an interesting saga since it was incorporated in 1767. Another distinguished son of Hubbardston was Jonas G. Clark, who left town for New York, became a millionaire, founded Clark University in Worcester, and left money for the library in Hubbardston that bears his name. "

Back From the Brink (but Watch Your Step)
New York Times
" here's a look back at five of the biggest business stories of this year and what to look for in the next 12 months. Chrysler is still a basket case, and General Motors seems to be doing a lot of public relations. Changing the coach doesn't change the team,' warns Gary N. Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "

A Follow Up on Gratitude & Teens
Newsweek “NurtureShock” blog
" The second reason to doubt this is the research relating to children's understanding of God. As Ashley wrote about in a previous post, researchers such as Clark University's Lene Jensen have found that children's view of God is affected by his age and his parents' authority style. "

To have and to hold
Times Higher Education (London)
"An unusual award for budding bibliophiles or bibliomaniacs is given each year by the Friends of the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The competition was set up by the noted bibliophile Nicholas Basbanes, who still provides some of the funding for the four prizes For Mott Linn, the head of collections management at the Goddard Library, the aim of the Nicholas Basbanes Student Book Collecting Contest is to promote and celebrate the love of collecting books,' as opposed to just slavishly gathering a lot of books on one subject because your studies require you to.' ..."

IT Firm Moves To Shrewsbury, Triples Space
Worcester Business Journal
"Swiftec's new, 2,500-square-foot location at 745 Main St. in Shrewsbury is being renovated, and work is expected to be complete by the end of the month, Adam Winter, the company's president, said in an e-mail. Swiftec is an IT company that provides computer and network support services to small- and mid-size businesses in the MetroWest region. It was founded by Winter, a Clark University MBA."

The Double-Edged Sword of Promotional Tests
Worcester Business Journal
Gary Chaison, labor relations professor at Clark's Graduate School of Management, comments in an article about the Supreme Court's recent decision on race, affirmative action and promotion practices in Ricci v. DeStefano, also referred to as the New Haven (Conn.) Firefighters case.

Term paper trafficking
CommonWealth magazine (MassInc.)
"Web businesses thrive by peddling 'customized' term papers to students willing to pay for someone else's work. Kevin McKenna, an associate dean at Clark University in Worcester, says the stakes are huge in stopping term paper cheating. The individual who cheats his way to earning a degree has defined his character,' says McKenna. This will be reflected in what kind of citizen he will be and how he behaves in the workforce. It is for the benefit of all that we shed light on these activities with the hope of ending them.' "

Ottensmeyer To Leave Deanship Of Clark GSOM
Worcester Business Journal
"Edward J. Ottensmeyer will resign as dean of Clark University's Graduate School of Management at the end of the 2009-10 school year. ..."

A Follow Up on Gratitude & Teens
Newsweek “NurtureShock” blog
" The second reason to doubt this is the research relating to children's understanding of God. As Ashley wrote about in a previous post, researchers such as Clark University's Lene Jensen have found that children's view of God is affected by his age and his parents' authority style. "

Workshop at Clark to Examine 'State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research'
Armenian Weekly
"From April 8-10, 2010, a groundbreaking workshop will take place at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Professor Taner Akam, the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Genocide Studies at Clark University, will host The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research: Historiography, Sources and Future Directions.' "

Heinemann / Vaclav And Lena
Booktrade.info
From a Booktrade.info press release about "Vaclav and Lena,' a novel due out in spring 2011: " a quirky love story set in the Russian migr society of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn Jason Arthur said 'I don't think I've ever read a debut with such perfectly-drawn characters every one a fully-realised creation. It's an astonishingly accomplished novel, and one that has utterly galvanised everybody here who has read it.' Haley Tanner was born in 1982 in New York. She holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from Clark University. She lives in Brooklyn with her two dogs and her boyfriend. This is her first novel."

Human Capital: People on the move, Jan. 4
Boston Business Journal
"David Angel, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark University in Worcester, was named the ninth president of the university. ..."

Oprah loves professor's handbags
Lynn University news
"Ellen Stern, a designer of couture handbags that appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2003, and a fashion photographer who has worked in major fashion hubs including New York City and Milan, Italy, is a new assistant professor of photography in Lynn University's College of International Communication. ... She earned a bachelor of arts in English from Clark University in Mass. "

Why This Kid-Themed Fund Isn't Appealing
Kiplinger.com
"Bob Bacarella's Monetta Young Investor has some good features, including a tuition-reward program, but we're not sold on the fund or the manager. The fund's most appealing feature may be its tuition-reward program. Students enrolled in the program can receive credits for up to one year's worth of tuition at more than 235 U.S. colleges and universities, most of them small Four of the schools -- Beloit College, Creighton University, Clark University and Hillsdale College -- are on Kiplinger's Personal Finance's list of the 100 best values "

Big Brother: France to Ban “Psychological Violence” in Marriages
John Birch Society
We've all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit "psychological violence" within a relationship. If there is a domestic violence call, often only the man will be arrested even if it's unknown who initiated the conflict. In fact, writes The Washington Times, "Denise Hines of Clark University found that when an abused man called the police, the police were more likely to arrest him than to arrest his abusive female partner.' "