Clark News and Media Relations
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Commencement speaker Khazei combines leadership, service
Clark University will hold its 106th Commencement on Sunday, May 22, on the Jefferson Academic Center Green. The procession, from the Kneller Athletic Center to the Campus Green, begins at 1:15 p.m., and ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. The Commencement speaker will be Alan Khazei, the founder and chief executive officer of Be the Change Inc., a Boston-based group…
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Smithsonian awards Eldredge Prize to author, art historian Wilson
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson, Clark University associate professor of art history, for her book “The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934” (Yale University Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “new and excellent interpretation of…
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Clark featured in Princeton Review guide to outstanding ‘green colleges’
The Princeton Review has recognized Clark University as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, including Clark in the just-released, second annual edition of the “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition.” Clark University joins the ranks of outstanding universities and colleges nationwide that are leading the “green”…
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Clark scientist to lead NASA research on sea ice in Arctic
With support of $735K grant, Prof. Karen Frey and two Ph.D. students will study climate change from aboard icebreakers Professor Frey recently received funding from the NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program for a project titled “Impacts of Sea Ice Decline and River Discharge Shifts on Biological Productivity in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.” Frey…
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Worcester Poet Bishop centennial: Clark U. plans tribute, concert
In honor of the centennial of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth in Worcester, Clark University will host “A Mirror on Which to Dwell”: Elliott Carter‘s Settings of Six Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor at the Higgins University Center. “An amazing night” — Read a review, “Music, poetry blend to celebrate Elizabeth Bishop”…
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Sustainable Clark: 350 daffodils part of perennial Earth Day plans
The Clark University Ecological-Representatives (Eco-Reps) have invited the entire Clark community to join them for a planting of 350 daffodils in celebration of Earth Day. The student group members, in conjunction with the Sustainable Clark office, will help volunteers – including Clark President David Angel – plant the bulbs between 12:30 p.m. until 3 p.m., on Friday, April…
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Changing the World… One Student at a Time
(This story was originally published in CLARK Magazine, spring 2011.) IDCE celebrates ten years of global impact The year was 1967 and Richard Ford was doing what he loved best: studying the vibrant cultures, social rhythms and political nuances of Africa. As visiting professor at the University of Natal, he’d traveled to South Africa with his wife…
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University offers new concentration in Latin American & Latino Studies
Census data from 2010 indicates that there are now 50.5 million Latinos in the United States — one sixth of the U.S. population. These figures represent more than a 46 percent increase in the Latino population since 2000 and reveal that Latinos are far and away the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Thus,…
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Leading international relations expert to discuss global insurgency
Esteemed political scientist David A. Lake will discuss the current and continually evolving and expanding political turmoil in Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, Yemen, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as he delivers the 2011 Harrington Public Affairs Lecture, presented by the Political Science Department at Clark University. The lecture, titled “America’s…
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Clark management grad students place fourth in trading challenge
A team of traders from Clark University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) finished fourth in the 2011 CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge. Teams from 166 schools around the world, including two from GSOM, traded crude oil and gold futures contracts during a two-week, around-the-clock competition. The team, led by captain Bjoern Weidlich (MBA ’11), finished…