Clark News and Media Relations
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Ex-Ambassador to discuss long, hot summer for ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings
The International Center of Worcester (ICW) will host former Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon, Mark Hambley, to speak on the topic “Reflections on the ‘Arab Spring’ as it Moves into the Long, Hot Summer,” at the ICW Annual Meeting, from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 27, at Tilton Hall in the Higgins University Center at Clark…
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Watching over Clark: John and Kay Bassett return to campus for Admissions Center dedication
Prospective Clark University students have streamed through the John and Kay Bassett Admissions Center since it opened in late 2010, and now they can put faces to the names that adorn the building. On Saturday, May 21, during Reunion Weekend, a standing-room-only crowd of alumni and other well-wishers filled the Admissions Center to fete the…
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Clark Values Help Guide Panera Founder
“It all started at Clark.” With those five words, Ron Shaich ’76, the founder and longtime CEO of Panera Bread, launched a rousing multi-media presentation at Reunion Weekend, tracing the path that has led to his newest venture, Panera Cares, a rare marriage of business principles, altruism, an abiding faith in the honest nature of…
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Clark adopts student’s ‘Big Idea,’ institutes University Bike Patrol
Two Clark police officers have begun patrolling the campus differently and sustainably—on new mountain bikes—thanks to an idea proposed by recent graduate Daniel Snyder, and funded by a University contest. Last Fall, Snyder took his passion for cycling and applied it to concerns about campus safety and environmental sustainability at Clark. He submitted his idea…
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Class of 2011 ‘leading already’ in time of ‘great transformation’
Clark University celebrated its 107th Commencement—the first under the stewardship of Clark’s ninth President, David P. Angel—on Sunday, May 22. Degrees were granted to 1,045 Clark graduates: 524 baccalaureate, 486 masters, and 35 doctoral. Alan Khazei, the founder and chief executive officer of Be the Change Inc. and City Year co-founder, delivered the Commencement address. Khazei recalled his journey as an unemployed graduate to someone who has created a nationwide national service…
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Clark on 2010 President’s Honor Roll for community service
The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Clark University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youths. Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Clark University has…
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From Brooklyn to Kathmandu, Steinbrecher Fellowships support 11 undergrads’ creative research
Eleven Clark University undergraduate students were recently named Steinbrecher Fellows; all will undertake projects this summer and during the 2011-2012 academic year. The Steinbrecher Fellowship Program was established in 2006 to encourage and support Clark undergraduates’ pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects. The 2011-2012 Steinbrecher Fellows and their projects are: Harrison…
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Students, dignitaries, neighbors celebrate planting of ‘Traina Tree’
The Worcester Tree Initiative is planting thousands of trees across the city to reclaim the urban forest decimated by the Asian long-horned beetle and the 2008 ice storm, but one white oak taking root in Main South holds special significance for the Clark University community. On April 29, Arbor Day, Congressman James McGovern, state Rep.…
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Student presenters shine at 10th annual Shakespeare conference
Undergraduates from eleven colleges and universities across New England represented Shakespeare through scholarship and performance as they participated in the Tenth Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference hosted at Clark University, on April 16. The conference offers a prestigious showcase for student research in the humanities, and this year’s participants on the theme “Representing Shakespeare” presented one of the…
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Campus community’s going all out for ‘Go Green’ sustainability festival
The Clark University community will throw a belated Earth Day party beginning at noon, Sunday, May 1, with “Go Green on the Green,” a sustainability festival featuring music, games and several memorable and educational visual displays all meant to help Sustainable Clark celebrate existing programs and to grow an even greener campus community. Sponsored by the Clark…