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Clark Digital Project Librarian Catherine Stebbins during a press conference previewing the First Launch Centennial events

Clark helps launch Robert Goddard centennial celebration 

With just under a month to go until the 100th anniversary of Clark alumnus and professor Robert H. Goddard’s launch of the world’s first liquid fuel rocket, members of Worcester’s political and academic communities gathered at a Feb. 17 press conference to discuss the First Launch Centennial and the various events planned. 

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Clarkies enjoy a Valentine’s Waltz, Brazilian Carnaval

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Three Clarkies place in ArtsWorcester’s 22nd College Show

Clark students research the Worcester branch of the NAACP at the Museum of Worcester.

Clarkies chronicle history of Worcester NAACP branch

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In Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, researchers study, model future climate change scenarios

As part of a $750,000 NASA-funded project, professors Gustavo Oliveira and Robert Gil Pontius Jr. of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society have been modeling future, competing scenarios of agricultural expansion, given climate change, in Brazil’s Cerrado, known as the region‘s ”Water Tank.”

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With AI’s assistance, researchers maximize Clark tool to reveal how our planet is changing

Working with Professor Pontius, Ph.D. student Antonio Fonseca aims to help scientists understand the ‘big picture’ in decades of land-cover data

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‘We depend on fungi for absolutely everything’

Tabima Lab expands research with $956K National Science Foundation grant

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