“Career Compass: Navigating Life Beyond Clark” - Managing Student Loan Debt
2025-03-20 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ASEC 202
Navigate the ever-changing student loan landscape with confidence!
This Managing Student Loan Debt dynamic session will provide the latest updates and practical insights for borrowers, helping you understand federal and private loan repayment options, explore consolidation strategies, determine eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and recognize how to avoid student loan scams.

The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.
2025-03-21 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Navigating Displacement: a Sudanese Speaker Series on Migration, Policy, and Home
The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Presented by Dr. Bashair Ahmed, Shabaka. Join us on Zoom (use QR code or zoom link below):

CUSB: Beta Alpha Psi Series on Financial Literacy
2025-03-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-11 13:00 - 14:00
Join our special guest, Nancy Rosedale, business community officer at Bank of America, for an insightful Financial Literacy Workshop Series. Learn essential financial skills that will help you manage your money, protect against fraud, and build a secure financial future.
Session 1 (Oct. 25): Banking Basics and Income and Paychecks
Session 2 (Nov. 1): Financial Safety and Spending and Saving
Register to attend

CUSB: Financial Leadership w/Alumnus Roman Viktorov, VP Finance, CFO Cisco
2025-03-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University – Carlson Hall, CH120, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Finance is not just about achieving the highest margin. It is about building relationships, bringing together creative ideas, leveraging technology, and enabling new business models.
As Vice President of Finance and CFO of the $30B Americas organization, the largest of Cisco’s 3 geographic regions, Roman Viktorov partners with sales and customer experience leaders to deliver profitable growth, ensure optimal business performance, and enable business transformation.
Roman has taken on a variety of leadership challenges, from startups to more established businesses. Diverse roles at Cisco include Security, Customer Experience, and Sales Finance. Not afraid to dive into unfamiliar water, he has built and led new businesses from scratch, transformed underperforming organizations and streamlined processes within successful teams.
Join alumnus Roman Viktorov for an insightful discussion on financial leadership at a worldwide technology leader.
This guest is speaking in person only.

CUSB: Financial Leadership with Roman Viktorov ’92
2025-03-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University – Carlson Hall, CH120, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Finance is not just about achieving the highest margin. It is about building relationships, bringing together creative ideas, leveraging technology, and enabling new business models.

As Vice President of Finance and CFO of Cisco’s $30B Americas organization, the largest of Cisco’s three geographic regions, Roman Viktorov partners with sales and customer experience leaders to deliver profitable growth, ensure optimal business performance, and enable business transformation.

Roman has taken on a variety of leadership challenges, from startups to more established businesses. Diverse roles at Cisco include Security, Customer Experience, and Sales Finance. Not afraid to dive into unfamiliar water, he has built and led new businesses from scratch, transformed underperforming organizations and streamlined processes within successful teams.

Join Roman Viktorov for an insightful discussion on financial leadership at a worldwide technology leader.

This guest is speaking in person only.

Local Experts, Global Issues: A Sustainability Conversation with Worcester Area Researchers
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Goddard Library Fuller Music Room 422
Worcester Reads Writes and Makes: Sustainability and Climate Change, a Worcester-wide series developed by the Academic Research Collaborative (ARC) Libraries of central Massachusetts.

Join local experts from Worcester-area colleges and universities as they discuss their research on sustainability in their areas of expertise.

Speakers:

Dr. Mauri Pelto, Professor of Environmental Science, Nichols College, Dudley, MA
Dr. Donna Bartlett, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA
Additional speakers to be announced

Light refreshments will be served.

Program sponsored by the Goddard Library, Clark University. Questions about the event may be addressed to library@clarku.edu.

OPT(Optional Practical Training) Workshop
2025-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
Want to learn more about Optional Practical Training(OPT)? This workshop will walk you through the procedure and regulations, and will offer you the opportunity to ask any questions.

Hong Ma (Tsinghua /HKS)
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Hong Ma (Tsinghua /HKS)
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 12:00-1:15 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 104

Sprintax Webinar
2025-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
Did you know that if you earned income in the US during 2024, you’re legally required to file a tax return by 15 April, 2025? It’s true! What’s more – even if you didn’t earn any income, you still need to submit Form 8843 to the IRS.
Join this webinar to learn about tax resources and how to file taxes. Register here:https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1735462996844225879

Entrepreneurship Program: Clark Tank Competition!
2025-03-28 09:00 - 15:00 | Clark University, Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center – 2nd Floor, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
The Clark Tank Marketing Pitch Competition allows students to pitch their businesses to a distinguished panel of marketing experts for a cash prize. Students prepare for the competition through a half-credit course, through which they learn the necessary marketing skills needed to grow their businesses.
Come support your fellow Clarkies as they vie to be the next Clark Tank winner!

Music Program Alumni Showcase
2025-03-28 15:00 - 19:00 | Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610
The Visual and Performing Arts Department at Clark University would like to welcome you to attend the first annual Clark University Music Program Alumni Showcase. Please join us in room 016 of the MACD for an afternoon of music, conversation and refreshments.

Passions: Clark University Chamber Chorus Concert
2025-03-31 19:00 - 20:30
The Clark University Chamber Chorus, led by Cailin Marcel Manson and assisted by Yelena Beriyeva, perform music and texts full to the brim of love narratives and metaphors: The Zigeunerlieder of Johannes Brahms, the Six Chansons of Paul Hindemith, and Daniel Pinkham’s Wedding Cantata.

Biology Department presents Liam Cleary
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
The Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Clark doctoral student Liam Cleary, who studies how environments influence the genomic evolution of functional molecules at the species and population level.

Ask a Librarian
2025-04-03 11:30 - 13:30 | University Center Tables
Have a question about a research project or library resources and can’t make it to the library? Every Thursday librarians from the Goddard Library will be available at the tables outside the UC. Bring questions about navigating library databases, placing an interlibrary loan request, evaluating sources, and more. Stickers, information about library resources (did you know you can check out a laptop charger?) and a friendly librarian will be there.

Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum
2025-04-03 11:30 - 16:30 | Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA, 01420, United States
Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of PhotographsExhibit and Gallery Talk at Fitchburg Art Museum
* Free bus transportation open to Clark students, staff, and faculty with a current Clark ID. *
Join us for a field trip in honor of Stephen DiRado’s career retrospective exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM). This show features 75 black-and-white photographs, 1,001 projected color images, and three videos about the artist, his life, and his work process. During the visit, you’ll have an opportunity to engage with Prof. DiRado through an interactive gallery talk and to explore the other offerings at FAM.
Free bus transportation and museum admission are available to members of the Clark community – Clark IDs will be checked before boarding the bus and again at the museum entrance. Participants should meet at Atwood Hall (185 Woodland Street) at 11:45am, so the bus can depart Clark promptly at noon. We will arrive back on campus by approximately 4:30pm that day.
Want to ride the bus? Reserve your seat by March 24 at this link: https://bit.ly/ClarkFAM.
Want to drive your own car? Register for free museum admission by contacting HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu.
If you have mobility needs or require special assistance, please contact HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu or call (508) 793-7479.

This trip is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities, the Media, Culture & the Arts program, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Studio Art program. Please join us in extending sincere thanks to the Fitchburg Art Museum and director Nick Capasso for their continued generosity to the Clark community.

Colloquium Speaker Series: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Hyperlocal Climate Services: Reflections of a State Climatologist

Dr. Dupigny-Giroux will discuss the multiple ways in which she as a teacher-scholar and Vermont State Climatologist serves as a portal for weather and climate information, education, outreach and analytical expertise to the people and agencies of the state of Vermont and beyond. These reflections will range from service-learning as a high impact pedagogy for graduating seniors, to the drafting of the state’s initial Climate Action Plan and the process-based dynamics of recent extreme weather events Vermont.

Excavating Women’s Testimony of the Armenian Genocide
2025-04-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons
Elyse Semerjdian is the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies and a professor in the Department of History. She will discuss the limitations of the state archive and her methodology for locating women’s voices in the archival record. The lecture will highlight her use of photography and letters and highlight some of the earliest testimonies composed by women survivors to show how genocide weaponizes the sexual economy of the patriarchal household.

Zoom Registration Link

The Inclusion of Smallholders in Global Supply Chain Regulations
2025-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | ASEC, Room 202
You are invited to attend The Inclusion of Smallholders in Global Supply Chain Regulations: The Case of EU Deforestation Regulation in Indonesia and Lao PDR.

Our speaker, Pheakkdey Nguon, Ph.D. ’16, is a 2025 Yale Emerging Climate Leader Fellow and Senior Forest Governance Expert at the European Forest Institute with extensive experience in environmental policies (EUDR, FLEGT, REDD+), sustainable landscapes, and climate initiatives. His current research exploring EUDR impacts on smallholder timber producers in Indonesia and Lao PDR is supported by a fellowship from the International Tropical Timber Organization.

You can also join us on Zoom (meeting ID: 982 5800 3742; passcode: [REDACTED]

This event is free for Clark students. Light refreshments will be served.

Between the Lines: A Conversation with Joseph de Rivera
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Goddard Library Floor 2, Strassler Campus Green Overlook
Between the Lines: A Clark Author Series

Joseph de Rivera will discuss his book, “Forming a Global Community” (Vernon Press, 2022), which argues that our current global situation requires a non-dualistic personalist philosophy that suggests new economics, politics, and religion.

Learn more about the book »

Light refreshments will be served. This event will not be recorded.

About the Author:

Professor de Rivera is a senior research scholar in the Hiatt School of Psychology. He taught at Dartmouth and NYU before coming to Clark and founding the program in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is known for books and articles on the structural analysis of emotions, emotional climate, believed-in imaginings, field theory, foreign policy, violence, and cultures of peace.

About Between the Lines:

Between the Lines is a Goddard Library speaker series aimed at an audience of the curious, both within Clark and beyond. The purpose of the series is to celebrate Clark faculty scholarship through an intellectually accessible conversation with the author about their life and work. Prepare to engage and be inspired by the research and creative works of our university’s diverse and distinguished faculty.

Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture
2025-04-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01603, United States
Join us as Clark University faculty member María Acosta Cruz (Language, Literature, and Culture) discusses her new book, Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture. In it, she examines Puerto Rico’s national culture through a complex web of references to the disasters that the nation has suffered and to how the environment has been portrayed. Sometimes Puerto Rican history, literature and arts highlight the drama of hurricanes and earthquakes. But often, the classics read in universities and gazed at in museums depict an Edenic garden of eternal spring. Since cultural depictions of the environment are never innocent and always have socio-political motivations, Acosta Cruz’s ecocritical project explores Puerto Rico through its unique convergences of calamities: cyclonic location and ecological instability, as well as continuous colonialism.
Admission is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15pm for refreshments.
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture at Clark University
About the Speaker
Born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, María Acosta Cruz received her degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is a Full Professor of Spanish at Clark University. She explores language and culture issues concerning ecocriticism, nationhood, gender constructions, and Caribbean political and cultural history. Among her published works is Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture & the Fictions of Independence and the upcoming book Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture.

Biology Department Presents Laura Katz
2025-04-09 15:00 - 16:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience

Tracking Africa’s Agricultural Dynamics from Space
2025-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Room S-121, Sackler Sciences Center
Agriculture in many African countries is undergoing rapid change to meet steadily growing food demand. This change includes both expansion and transformation in the scale and intensity of farming. Understanding the nature and extent of these changes requires a spaceborne perspective, which poses several technical challenges related to the small size and dynamism within the region’s smallholder-dominated croplands. This talk will present an approach designed to overcome these technical challenges, which combines high-resolution commercial satellite imagery with deep learning and human intelligence to map and analyze the changes in individual crop field boundaries. Results will be demonstrated for Zambia, which is representative of the agricultural change occurring across much of the continent.

Lyndon Estes, associate professor of geography, applies Earth observation technologies and a range of modeling techniques, including artificial intelligence, to investigate the drivers and impacts of agricultural change, with a particular focus on Africa.

Stefania Garetto (Boston University)
2025-04-10 13:25 - 14:40
Speaker: Stefania Garetto (Boston University)
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, April 10
Time: 1:25 – 2:40 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 215

“Career Compass: Navigating Life Beyond Clark” - Entering the Workforce
2025-04-10 17:30 - 18:30 | Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons
Get ready to step into your future with this dynamic and informative workshop tailored for graduating seniors! Learn what it takes to succeed as you transition from college to career.
Graduating as an international student? This workshop will also highlight strategies to overcome common challenges and leverage opportunities. Hear from seasoned professionals with firsthand insights to help you navigate workforce complexities with confidence.

Home and Belonging: The Predicament of Arriving and Returning
2025-04-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom Webinar
Registration required: https://clarku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HLt5rOvMQh6eQAb7aoDiPw

This event is hosted by the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University.

Speaker: Dr. John Nassari, https://www.johnnassari.co.uk

Nassari is a forced migration scholar and an award-winning photographer, author and filmmaker based in London. Nassari was a Senior Lecturer in Refugee Studies at the University of East London from 2007 to 2013 and served as Program Committee Chair for the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus. His interests include refugee identity, memory and narrative, and the formation of refugee lives in visual practice. He has conducted extensive research on Cypriot refugees and has published numerous journal articles, including ‘Postmemory blues: the predicament of arriving and returning,’ which he will be discussing during this talk.

Questions? Email the Integration and Belonging Hub (IBH@clarku.edu) or Anita Fábos (afabos@clarku.edu)

Panel on Emerging Trends in AI
2025-04-15 08:00 - 17:00

The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion
2025-04-15 16:00 - 17:15 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01603, United States
Image courtesy of Colorfool Films

Discussion facilitated by Clark University faculty Stephen DiRado, Matt Malsky, and Max Ritts
In the late 1960s, Bernie Krause was a prolific composer and foley artist who pioneered synthesizers and worked with industry giants such as Francis Ford Coppola, The Doors, and The Rolling Stones. But after one chance encounter with the sounds of the wilderness, he chose to change his career path, setting out to gather wild field recordings to help battle the climate crisis using acoustic information. More than half a century later, his vast archive of captured soundscapes reflects dire habitat devastation in the world and yields urgent stories about the need for immediate change.
The Last of the Nightingales, directed by Masha Karpoukhina, invites audiences to experience the rich acoustic beauty of the living world through Bernie’s ears, exceptionally attuned over decades. More than half of the ecosystems recorded in his immense archive are now completely silent or will never be heard in their original voice again due to the profound effects of climate change on the stability, biodiversity, and resilience of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. As more and more soundscapes fall silent, Bernie reminds us that it’s not too late to begin listening.
Admission to the screening is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be offered.
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Environmental Humanities Research Collaborative at Clark University
