Anne Gibson, Ph.D. '95

  • ‘Art After Clark’ exhibition showcases alumni creations

    The Clark University Visual and Performing Arts Department celebrated the artistic visions of 17 studio art alumni at a Feb.12 reception for the third “Art After Clark” exhibition, now on display through April 2 at the Traina Center for the Arts’ Schiltkamp Gallery. Represented media and techniques range from handmade journals and fabric sculpture to printmaking, photography, painting,…

  • Gurel lecturer: Span cultural divide to teach New Century Students

    When classroom populations are culturally diverse — and students often technologically savvier than their elders — teachers are faced with the challenge of finding ways to engage them in meaningful learning. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally known educator, urges teachers to immerse themselves in the cultural lives of their students to improve teaching practice. Ladson-Billings delivered…

  • Driving Force: Chief economic adviser Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, M.A. ’88, Ph.D. ’86, helps steer Ford Motor Company toward profitability

    Driving Force: Chief economic adviser Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, M.A. ’88, Ph.D. ’86, helps steer Ford Motor Company toward profitability

      Ellen Hughes-Cromwick began raising red flags in the fall of 2006. As recounted in the 2012 book “American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company,” Ford’s chief economic adviser warned about significant shifts in several markets, the proliferation of subprime mortgages, the correction taking place in the housing market, tightening…

  • Clark researchers meet the challenge of global climate change

    Clark researchers meet the challenge of global climate change

    For centuries, human beings — from poets to religious leaders to scientists — have speculated about the end of the world. Will it conclude with a whimper or a bang? Will we be consumed by fire or slowly freeze to death? These fatal visions reflect our instinctive fear of a climate that’s either “too hot”…

  • The man in the glass: In 1912, Louis Tyree broke the color barrier at Clark

    The man in the glass: In 1912, Louis Tyree broke the color barrier at Clark

    In 1912, he was the first African American to graduate from Clark College

  • Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

    Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

    There was a time when food was something you ate but rarely pondered. You did not know, or care, where your dinner came from, or how it would interact with your body once it was consumed. That was then. Sure, many folks still eat with abandon, but many others, like the Clarkies profiled on these…

  • Medic of the mind

    Medic of the mind

    From Iraq to Afghanistan to U.S. veterans' clinics, psychologist Major Clifford Trott '87 heals the hidden wounds of war

  • Greening the Fleet

    Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jackalyne Pfannenstiel ’69 sails into uncharted energy waters.

  • Grounding New Orleans

    While recognizing that patience is a virtue and confessing she has little, social entrepreneur Yasmin Bowers tirelessly works to consciously re-establish the ravaged infrastructure and community of post-Katrina New Orleans. Three months after Yasmin Bowers ’05 graduated from Clark, Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans, leaving a legacy of physical devastation and social disruption that is…