Clark News and Media Relations Archives

Clark News and Media Relations

Student researcher Hostetler ’13 named O’Connor HERO Fellow

Clark University senior Andrew E. Hostetler is among a select group of student researchers who are members of the national Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) program based at Clark. On Oct. 16, Hostetler received the added honor of being named the 2012 O’Connor HERO Fellow. The O’Connor HERO Fellowship is named for the late Clark University Trustee John O’Connor (Class of…
Clark University’s 7 new M.A.D. Scholars set to make a difference

Seven first-year Making a Difference (M.A.D.) Scholarship recipients joined the Clark Community this fall, continuing to demonstrate their leadership and meaningful commitment to social change. The M.A.D. scholarships are offered to incoming first-year students. Recipients are offered a stipend and housing allowance to support projects they may undertake in the Worcester community during the summer following their…
Prof. Robert Johnston named to EPA Science Advisory Board

Clark University Professor of Economics Robert Johnston, director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute, has been appointed to the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency. In this role, Johnston will serve as a special government employee and will provide independent advice on technical issues underlying the EPA’s policies and decision-making. The Science Advisory Board (SAB) is organized under the Federal…
Clark University among partners lauded for Main South housing

A ribbon-cutting ceremony outside a new housing unit on Hammond Street on Oct. 25 heralded the completion of the Kilby-Gardner-Hammond Revitalization Project, a major initiative to provide safe, affordable housing in the Main South area. The project was accomplished under the auspices of the University Park Partnership, a collaboration involving Clark University, the Main South Community Development Corporation,…
Clark’s Taner Akçam Speaks at Harvard’s Carr Center

Taner Akçam, Clark University History Professor and Armenian Genocide Expert, spoke on “Ethnic Cleansing and the Armenian Genocide: New Evidence from the Ottoman Archive” at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. (October 2012). Akçam is also the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian…
Clark University psychologist examines ‘play behaviors’ of children of same-sex parents

Do children of gay and lesbian parents play the same way children of heterosexual parents do? If not, how do they differ? Is there a benefit or drawback to this? Clark University psychologist Abbie Goldberg and fellow researchers Deborah Kashy of Michigan State University, and JuliAnna Z. Smith of The Center for Research on Families at The University of Massachusetts/Amherst, examine this…
Family Impact Seminars named Bright Idea; Mass. program directed by Clark University

The Family Impact Seminars were recently named a Bright Idea by the Innovations in American Government Awards Program at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Massachusetts Family Impact Seminars are organized and presented by the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University and directed by Denise Hines, research assistant professor of psychology at Clark. The Seminars…
Prof. Stephens presents ‘smart grid’ research at Denmark conference

Clark University associate professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Jennie Stephens, presented research and organized a research panel on energy system transitions at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference held Oct. 17 to 20 at the Copenhagen Business School in Frederiksberg, Denmark. At the conference, which was held jointly with the European Association for the Study of…
Sri Lankan Post-War Trauma and Victimization

English and psychology double major Kulani Panapitiya Dias ’13, of Sri Lanka, set out to investigate the prevalence of the psychological processes of moral disengagement, in group glorification and essentialism in post-war Sri Lanka by focusing on narratives of trauma. Following a study she conducted in December 2011 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Kulani interviewed and surveyed…
GSOM one of Princeton Review’s ‘Best 296 Business Schools’

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Clark University is listed among the nation’s best in The Princeton Review’s 2013 edition of “Best 296 Business Schools.” Clark appears as one of the “Best Business Schools in the Northeast.” In the Clark University business school profile, students surveyed frequently agreed the program had “friendly students,” “cutting-edge classes,” and “solid preparation…