Clark News and Media Relations
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MLK Jr. Convocation lecture explores challenges ‘after Obama’
Professor Devon Carbado, of UCLA, will deliver the Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation lecture, “After Obama: three ‘Post-Racial’ Challenges,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 24, in Tilton Hall of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street. Professor Carbado’s lecture will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King, address “the evolution of blackness,” and will…
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Provost Baird named AAAS Fellow
Clark University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Davis Baird has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This year, 503 members have been awarded this honor, which is bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers in recognition of distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows will…
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Event at Clark Jan. 19 to launch important aids2031 project report
“AIDS: Taking a Long Term View” is the much anticipated report from the aids2031 Consortium, a worldwide group of AIDS scientists, health officials, activists, and experts who have come together to look at the global AIDS response 30 years after the disease was first reported and recommend the best way forward over the next 20…
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The Internet and Your Brain
As part of Clark’s Fall 2010 Difficult Dialogues program, Nicholas Carr, author of “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” discussed the ways in which our online existence is rewiring our minds, replacing deep thought with information overload, and overruling attentiveness with a steady stream of interruptions and distractions. This saturation of…
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Clark students, faculty plan return to Haiti over Thanksgiving break
Twenty-two Clark University students will spend their Thanksgiving break in a distinctly non-Norman Rockwell setting as they engage in a field course to help develop sustainable agriculture projects with staff and students from the University of Notre Dame d’Haiti (UNDH) school of agronomy in Les Cayes. The course, part of Clark’s Haiti Relief Initiative, serves as…
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HERO research program at Clark thriving; student fellows honored
Being a HERO at Clark University doesn’t require having superpowers or wearing a cape, but it helps to have a sharp mind for scientific research and a keen interest in the environment. A good raincoat and sturdy boots also may come in handy. For more than a decade, the Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) program at Clark University has…
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Prof. Colin Polsky discusses Clark’s HERO Program
Clark’s HERO program provides funded opportunities for selected undergraduates–HERO Fellows–to work with faculty who are researching the impact of land cover and land use change in Massachusetts. Program Director Colin Polsky introduces the program and discusses how the program provides the Fellows with important opportunities for professional development. Read more on our news site.
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Prof. Enloe receives lifetime award for peace studies contributions
Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor at Clark University’s Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, has been awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award, by the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA). “The award honors a very select group of scholar-activists who have made truly significant and ground breaking contributions that affect scholars across…
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Students head for Siberia with international Polaris Project team
For the third year, Clark students have earned a spot on the 'Rising Stars' arctic research field course.
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Repopulating Worcester’s Trees
Maggie Small ’10 talks about her work with the Worcester Tree Initiative, which is taking steps to repopulate local trees destroyed by the Asian Longhorned Beetle.