Dean of Students Pop-Up Office Hours
2026-03-16 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Lower Bistro
Join the Assistant Provost of Student Success and Dean of Students for Pop-Up Office hours around campus. Stop by to say hello, ask questions, share about your experience, or just check in!

Sprintax Nonresident Tax Webinar
2026-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
International Students will get help on filing taxes. In these tax webinars, international students, scholars and professionals will be run through everything they need to know about non-resident tax for the 2025 tax season. Topics will include who must file, tax residency, FICA, state returns, implications of misfiling as well as how to use Sprintax to prepare a compliant tax return.

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8986518991569818710

The Goddard Library Celebrates Robert Goddard
2026-03-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Goddard Library
Visit the Clark University Archives and Special Collections on Floor 1 of the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library to view unique materials from the Robert and Esther Goddard Archive.

Highlights of this event:

An exhibition highlighting Robert Goddard’s boyhood

An exhibition highlighting the life and work of Esther Goddard, Robert’s wife, in preserving his legacy

The first book that went to the moon! A miniature biography of Goddard, printed in Worcester, flown on Apollo 11, and signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin

To explore more about Robert Goddard’s life and legacy please visit Clark University’s Digital Commons: The Robert H. Goddard Collection.

When?

Monday, March 16, to Friday, March 20; every day from 2 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, March 21: 1 to 4 p.m.

Where?

Goddard Library, first floor: Archives and Special Collections Rare Books Room

Who?

All are welcome!

Sisters in Stride (SIS) Affinity Space
2026-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Dana Commons – McCann Resource Room
An affinity space that centers women-identifying students of color who gather to create community and learn from shared stores, experiences & service.

SAS Homework Center
2026-03-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-18 18:00 - 20:00 | ASEC 213
Open to all students registered with SAS and their friends. Use this time to work independently, in a quiet space dedicated to doing homework. We will provide snacks, study tools, and more. Additionally, attendance at each night of this event will earn you one entry into our end-of-semester raffle – you can get one entry for each homework center, workshop, or other event!

Tours of the Robert and Esther Goddard House
2026-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Robert and Esther Goddard Center for Innovation, 1 Tallawanda Drive, Worcester, MA, United States
Visit Robert Goddard’s birthplace to learn more about the physicist’s life and work. Presentations will be given by Charles Slatkin ’74, founder of The Wonder Mission, and Kevin Schindler, author of Robert Goddard’s Massachusetts.

Tours and presentations will take place from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day, March 17–21.

SAS' Spring '26 Event Series: Create With Clay Craft-ernoon
2026-03-17 14:00 - 16:00 | TBD
Unwind while making something creative and relaxing with others! Whether you want to make a small animal to sit with you while you study, a small trinket to bring you joy, or something else entirely, it’s all welcome as we play with air dry clay together! Bring a friend, or come make a friend, it’s all up to you! Open to all students registered with SAS and their friends. Attendance at each event will earn you one entry into our end-of-semester raffle – you can get one entry for each homework center, workshop, or other event!

Mastering Interviewing Workshop - Clark University
2026-03-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Sackler Science Center 122
Build confidence and stand out in your next job interview. Join us to learn practical strategies for preparation, communication, and making a lasting impression on employers.

SLICE Drop-In Hours with Meghan
2026-03-17 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Got a quick question about leadership, club management, or getting involved? Stop by to chat with Meghan, Assistant Director of Student Leadership & Involvement, about a variety of topics. If you have a more detailed question or would like a longer conversation, please schedule a meeting with Meghan using the QR code on her office door! Specific questions about club events should be directed to campus_life@clarku.edu. Questions about club purchasing should be directed to clubpurchasing@clarku.edu.

26-27 Housing Selection Info Session
2026-03-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Lurie Conference Room, UC
Have you started thinking about where you want to live next year? If you’re an undergraduate student planning to live on campus for the 2026–2027 academic year, this information session is your chance to learn how housing selection works and get your questions answered. Because the housing selection process has changed slightly from previous years, this session will be helpful for undergraduate students in any class year, whether you’ve gone through selection before or not. Please note, our Zoom sessions will be recorded and posted on Clark’s website as a resource for students who are unable to attend live. Important housing selection dates: Returning student housing application opens in the Housing & Dining Self-Service portal on Monday, February 2. For students with housing accommodations, the Housing Accommodation Preference Form opens on Monday, February 2. Students intending to utilize a housing accommodation must submit their housing application by Monday, February 23. Returning Student Housing Application closes on Monday, March 2. Housing selection will take place Tuesday, March 24 – Friday, March 27.

Robert Goddard Centennial: A Vision. A Reality. A Hope
2026-03-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Sackler Sciences Center, Johnson Auditorium – S120
Join Clark alumnus and former NASA project manager John Emond ’74 as he explores how Robert Goddard’s early experiments were met with skepticism — yet through persistence and vision, he laid the groundwork for modern rocketry and ultimately helped spark the creation of NASA.

Watch this event via Zoom livestream (name and email address required)

John Emond spent almost a decade working in social services before joining NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He then moved to NASA HQ, where he served as a policy analyst, senior policy analyst, commercial space center program manager, and technology transfer collaboration program manager.

visit clark’s goddard centennial site

SLICE Drop-In Hours with Stacie
2026-03-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Got a quick question about making purchase requests, budget management, or club finances? Stop by to chat with Stacie, the SLICE Office & Budget Manager, during her office hours. If you have a more detailed question or would like a longer conversation, please schedule a meeting with Stacie using the QR code on her office door!

Peace and Conflict Studies Common Time
2026-03-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Dana Commons, Suite 1
Do you want to know why we continue to see one war after another? Or how people resist against violence and oppression in different ways? Do you wonder how the military-industrial complex affects the climate crisis? Then Peace and Conflict Studies may be the right concentration for you! Join us for a fun way of getting acquainted with Peace and Conflict Studies with light snacks and a game of BINGO. Both current students and those who are interested are welcome to join!

**Please RSVP here.

Animating Sculpture: AR, Iteration, and Public Art
2026-03-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01603, United States
Moving Memory AR at SXSW 2026

How does Augmented Reality (AR) design evolve through iteration, also known as repeated versioning? In this talk, Dr. Lori Landay from Berklee College of Music discusses how she developed two AR experiences layered onto existing public sculptures—and what she learned by iterating between them.

In the first project, Moving Memory AR, Landay debuted playful, motion-captured bots performing choreography around Jaume Plensa’s sculpture Alchemist at MIT in February 2025. Users responded enthusiastically, but Landay identified several limitations she wanted to address. Her second project will bring Moving Memory AR to SXSW’s Kempelen’s Owls sculpture in Austin in March 2026, evolving the design across four dimensions: emotional, spatial, technical, and representational. Through iteration, she expanded the bots’ emotional range and movement vocabulary, reduced their exaggerated gender coding, incorporated discovery-based movement requiring exploration across the sculpture’s site, and deployed advanced Hoverlay sequences to deepen the experience. As Landay describes it, this latest version “makes a place to bridge contradictory themes of nature and technology, geometric and organic, clandestine and open, seen and hidden.”

Join us as Landay reflects on what changed between these two projects and why. She will discuss ethnographic observation methods for AR sites, Laban Movement Analysis for expressive choreography, advanced sequence-based authoring, strategies for creating modular content that adapts across contexts, and an honest assessment of what designers can and cannot anticipate without direct site experience.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Interactive Arts Collaborative through the Arts + Technology Program at Clark University

Lori Landay, Ph.D., Professor of Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, and New Media in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Berklee College of Music in Boston, is an interdisciplinary new media artist, educator, and scholar whose work explores the making of meaning in twentieth- and twenty-first century culture. Her award-winning creative and critical work bridges multiple media forms. She collaborates with composers, musicians, and dancers to investigate movement and sound in live performance, video, and extended reality (XR) environments. Lori was a Research Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2022-24), working on Moving Realities, an experimental project exploring connections between motion and emotion in XR. Moving Memory, her AR installation in MIT’s Artfinity Festival (2025) and South by Southwest (2026) is part of the MIT OpenDocLab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective Layers of Place. For more information, visit https://www.lorilanday.com.

Film screening and Q&A of ‘9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero’
2026-03-18 16:30 - 18:30 | Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
After the 9/11 attacks, once the smoke cleared and the rubble was removed, New Yorkers had a city to rebuild. There was just one problem: no one could agree on what should be built. People cried. People yelled. People fought. The only thing they didn’t do was get along—until a single event changed everything.

With an Introduction and Post-Film Q&A with film producer Carolyn Lukensmeyer

Carolyn Lukensmeyer is a nationally recognized leader in democratic innovation and public engagement and founder of AmericaSpeaks. She has advised cities, states, federal agencies, and international institutions on participatory governance and democracy reform. After 9/11, Lukensmeyer helped design Listening to the City, the 2002 public forum that brought New Yorkers together to shape the rebuilding of Ground Zero.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

With support from the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund

Drop-in for On-Campus Job Search Support
2026-03-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Career Lab, first floor of ASEC
Visit us in the Career Lab for personalized job search tips and feedback!

Practicing Right Relationship: Building Community in Uncertain Times
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Dana Commons – Fireside Lounge
adrienne maree brown, author of “Emergent Strategy” and “Holding Change,” will join us virtually for a discussion and Q&A. You are invited to come together to watch and participate, or attend among others. Come watch and participate together or watch the online event.

Dean of the College Laurie Ross and Margaret Post, reasearch professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice, will host the conversation.

New York Times bestselling author adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation.

brown is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown.

Transnational Knowledge Production and Academic Identity
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:00
In displacement settings, immediate survival often takes precedence—but what role does intellectual identity play in helping scholars rebuild their careers and sense of belonging? Join the Integration and Belonging Hub for the first session of our new webinar series, Scholars in Exile – Rethinking Academic Humanitarianism.

REGISTER

Sponsored by the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University

Speakers

Dr. Alfred Babo: Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Fairfield University, and Board Member at Scholars-at-Risk.

Professor Svitlana Ovcharenko: Philosopher, Cultural Researcher, and Associate Researcher at the Global Governance Center, Geneva Graduate Institute.

Heba Ghannam: Syrian Egyptian Anthropologist, Educator, Cultural Worker, and PhD Candidate in Anthropology at American University.

About the series: Scholars in Exile – Rethinking Academic Humanitarianism.

This three-part series explores how transnational knowledge production and academic identity intersect with inclusion and exclusion. Moving beyond labels, we examine how exiled intellectuals navigate the Global North and redefine what it means to be both a “refugee” and a high-level academic.

Each session brings together displaced scholars and transnational researchers to share insights on navigating host institutions, maintaining professional agency, and overcoming the unique stresses of displacement.

Spirituality and the Ethics of Conservation: The Collapse of Marine Fisheries in West Africa
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:15 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01603, United States
Presented byEmmanuel Akyeampong, PhDEllen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard UniversityMinister for Worship and Formation, Harvard University Memorial Church

In the 1960s, economist and anthropologist Polly Hill dubbed Ghanaians “Pan-African fisherman.” Ghanaian fishermen could be found all along the West African coast from the Gambia to the Niger Delta. Today, Ghana accounts for about 70 to 80 percent of all pelagic fish catches (sardines, anchovies, herring, mackerel) in the Gulf of Guinea. Yet in the past two to three decades, annual catches of small pelagic fish there have declined precipitously, plummeting from 270,000 metric tons in 1990s to 16,000 metric tons in 2016. The factors accounting for the decline are complex: overfishing, ocean warming, the menace of foreign industrial trawlers, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices. The collapse of marine fisheries has generated a debate about customary practices rooted in indigenous religion that treated the sea as sacred space and regulated fishing practices. Has social change and religious pluralism undermined the ethics of conservation? How can the ethics of conservation be rehabilitated as part of the multi-pronged effort to revive marine fisheries along the West African coast?

Admission to the talk is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45am for refreshments.

Sponsored as part of the Leir Lecture Series by the School of Climate, Environment, and Society; the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities; the Marsh Institute; the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies; and the Departments of English: of History; of Language, Literature, and Culture; and of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University

About the SpeakerEmmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the Minister for Worship and Formation at Harvard University Memorial Church. He served as the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard Center for African Studies from July 2016 to June 2023. Akyeampong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK). He obtained his PhD in History from the University of Virginia in 1993, and his MDiv from Andover Newton Theological School in 2014. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Ghana in 2018, and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Cape Coast in 2023. Akyeampong is the author and editor of several books and articles including Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders (2023); Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana (2001); and Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c.1800 to Recent Times (1996). He served as co-chief editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for the Dictionary of African Biography, 6 vols. (2012). Akyeampong is a principal investigator for one of the inaugural grants from the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, “Examining the Impact of Sea-Level Rise, Urban Flooding, and Coastal Erosion on Settlement and Livelihoods in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria.”

ISSO Advising Session for School of Business Students
2026-03-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Carlson Hall 003, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
International students in the School of Business are invited to join this advising session with International Student Advisor Ninette.

This session provides an opportunity to ask questions and receive guidance on topics such as immigration regulations, employment options, maintaining status, and navigating your academic experience as an international business student.

Students are welcome to drop in, ask questions, and get personalized support.

SLICE Drop-In Hours with Peyton
2026-03-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Got a quick question? Stop by to chat with Peyton, Assistant Dean/Director of SLICE, during their office hours. If you have a more detailed question or would like a longer conversation, please schedule a meeting with Peyton by sending them an email at PeWu@clarku.edu.

Robert Goddard Centennial: The Dreamer Who Launched the Space Age
2026-03-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Dana Commons – Higgins Lounge
Dr. Robert Goddard is widely considered the father of the space age. and his groundbreaking experiments transformed rocketry from imagination into reality. Kevin Schindler, author of Robert Goddard’s Massachusetts (set to be released March 3), will present historical images, personal writings, and accounts of Goddard’s pioneering 1926 liquid‑fuel rocket launch that beckoned in the era of modern spaceflight. The program will also highlight Esther Goddard’s essential role in preserving her husband’s legacy and ensuring his contributions continue to inspire future explorers.

Watch this event via Zoom livestream (name and email address required)

Kevin Schindler is the historian and public information officer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he has worked for 31 years. He has authored nine books, including Robert Goddard’s Massachusetts, and contributes a bi-weekly astronomy column, “View from Mars Hill,” for the Arizona Daily Sun. In May 2023, he served as Astronomer-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon. Fun fact: Kevin has both a fossil crab and an asteroid named after him.

visit clark’s goddard centennial site

The William V. Shannon'47, LITT.D.'64 Spring 2026 Lecture
2026-03-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Party at the Ballot Box

The Spring 2026 William V. Shannon’47, LITT.D. ’64 Lecture will be presented by Dr. Melissa Michelson, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Menlo College, she will speak on her new book titled, Party at the Ballot Box.

Black voters continue to transform America’s electoral landscape and can play a powerful role in determining the outcome of elections. In Party at the Ballot Box, Melissa R. Michelson, Stephanie L. DeMora, and Sarah V. Hayes argue that Black Americans vote as a celebration of community, and that cultivating that sense of community is an effective means of increasing Black voter turnout.

Dr. Michelson is Dean of Arts & Sciences at Menlo College. She earned her BA at Columbia University and her PhD in Political Science from Yale University. She is past president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Latino Caucus and of the APSA LGBT Caucus. She is a nationally recognized expert in voter mobilization, Latino politics, and LGBTQ politics. She is the award-winning co-author of eight books, including Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns and a popular textbook on California Politics. The subject of this talk and her most recent book, Party at the Ballot Box: Mobilizing Black Women Voters, was released by NYU Press last year. Dr. Michelson’s current projects include ongoing research on how best to motivate turnout among low-propensity voters and newly reenfranchised voters, and the power of drag performers to increase participation. In her spare time, she knits and runs marathons. She lives in California with her husband, with whom she has four sons.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

This event is sponsored by the Political Science Department through the William V. Shannon ’47 LITT.D. ’64 Endowed Memorial Fund.

Open Mic by PEC
2026-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 | The Grind, UC
Join PEC for an open mic every month. play some music, recite some poetry, do a stand-up comedy set – all acts are welcome!

Clark University Undergraduate Student Council Weekly Meeting (open to the public)
2026-03-19 19:00 - 21:30 | ASEC 202
Join us every Thursday at 7 PM for the weekly Clark Undergraduate Student Council meetings (Open To The Public!) CUSC representatives meet to discuss potential motions, review and vote on new legislation, and share what they’re hearing from their constituents. Have something you’d like to share? Fill out our Public Comment Form.

Friday Night Magic (and other card games)
2026-03-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Asher Suite, UC
Come join us to play Magic the Gathering and any trading card game you like! People of any skill level are welcome, more experienced players are always happy to lend a hand no matter the game.

Weekly Shabbat Services and Dinner
2026-03-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Grace & Lurie Conference Rooms, Higgins University Center
Join us for musical Shabbat services followed by a delicious meal. Shabbat is a time when we are able to come together as a community and be present in the moment, while taking the time to from the week. Anyone is welcome so please bring a friend! We can’t wait to see you there! Shabbat is a time when we are able to come together as a community and be present in the moment, while taking the time to from the week. Anyone is welcome so please bring a friend! We can’t wait to see you there!
