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Re-imagine our connection to the living world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The world needs leaders and visionaries who can integrate information from multiple fields to address complex environmental challenges and work towards a sustainable, equitable future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ella Christie \u201927 joined Geography Professor Karen Frey and her team on a polar research expedition aboard the CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier, to study rapidly changing Arctic ecosystems through the Distributed Biological Observatory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Chandra Jack and her students plant a crop of wheat at the grow house to study how microbe interactions affect plant traits. This work will contribute to the development of new, more sustainable ways to increase food production.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Students in the lab of Biology Professor Javier Tabima Restrepo venture into the wild to conduct research that aims to understand the diversity, genomics, evolution, and ecology of microfungal species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Aedan Derrick \u201926 and Matt Shea \u201926 present a research project, \u201cClimate Change Adaptations of Major American Waterways,\u201d which they presented at the culminating poster salon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Members of the Nipmuc community join geography professor John Rogan’s class to plant a Nipmuc garden at the Hadwen Arboretum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAs humans, we want to feel that what we do matters\u2014and here at Clark it really does.\u201d<\/p>LOU LEONARD, D.J.A. SPENCER DEAN OF
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The School of Climate, Environment, and Society<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Building on a long legacy of climate-related work in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society \u2014 opening in fall of 2025 \u2014 offers students new opportunities to explore human\u2011focused, community\u2011centered solutions to the climate crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New academic programs include a climate, environment, and society major and graduate degree in climate and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate, Environment, and Society, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Search for more equitable, sustainable and just pathways for the future. Immerse yourself in the various disciplinary perspectives required to understand and address climate change and other sustainability challenges.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Climate and Society, M.S.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lead the response to the pressing challenges of climate change. Acquire the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to become effective practitioners in the fields of climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and climate change advocacy and activism.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Funded by $1.1 million in NSF grants, microbial ecologist Nathan Ahlgren and his students explore why viruses are killing Cyanobacteria, single-celled microbes that carry out about 25 percent of the photosynthesis in the ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dukilda Hasanllari \u201923, Angell Jean-Laurent \u201924, and other students have helped isolate more than 100 Synechococcus strains from water samples taken from Narragansett Bay. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Connected to community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Dye \u201924 talks about the community bioshelter where she works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A greenhouse operates as an indoor ecosystem for mushroom growing. Outside, Main South families cultivate and harvest their own fresh produce in raised vegetable beds and small fruit orchard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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