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Clark Model U.N. Team excels at Harvard, McGill conferences

The Harvard Model U.N. conference is one of the most competitive conferences in the Model U.N. circuit, attracting more than 3,000 student delegates from 75 countries. “Our team did an exceptional job this year, especially in the smaller crisis committees,” said Model U.N. Faculty Adviser Srini Sitaraman, Associate Professor of Political Science. Clark University students…
Clark history professor’s new book examines complex world of prostitution in 18th-century Paris

In her new book, “Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” Clark University associate professor of history Nina Kushner explores the world of the eighteenth-century Parisian demimonde, in which women sold sex, company, and even love to the men of the elite in exchange for being “kept.” In “Erotic Exchanges” (Cornell University Press), Kushner reveals the…
Clark professor’s ‘Dream Nation’ explores cultural effects of Puerto Rican independence movement

While the Puerto Rican independence movement was a political failure, it has contributed immensely to the Puerto Rican identity, influencing both literature and culture. A provocative new book by Clark University associate professor of Spanish María Acosta Cruz uses examples from Puerto Rican literature, history, and pop culture to emphasize how the territory’s residents have taken hold…
Old Clark University OneCards find a musical new life as guitar picks

Members of the Clark University community are always finding creative ways to recycle just about everything. Clark’s OneCard’s Office recently started recycling old Clark OneCards into guitar picks. Business Manager Paul Wykes had the idea after he bought his son a guitar pick maker for Christmas in 2012. This past year, his son received a…
Pat Glispin joins the 500 win club

The Clark University women’s basketball team gave longtime head coach Pat Glispin her 500th career coaching victory with a 54-51 win over Wellesley College on Feb. 12. The win also keeps the Cougars’ playoff hunt alive. Glispin, who is now in her 30th season as the head coach at Clark, becomes just the 22nd coach in…
Clark University Mock Trial team wins bid to national tournament

One of Clark University’s two Mock Trial teams is moving on to the national tournament, earning its bid during the regional Intercollegiate Mock Trial Tournament held Jan. 31 – Feb. 2 at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, N.H. The veteran “A team” will compete in the national event in Philadelphia in March. Clark entered two…
Clark University to host panel discussion, ‘The financial crisis: five years later,’ on Feb. 6

Clark University will host “The Financial Crisis, Five Years Later: Progress or Paralysis?” at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, at Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St., Worcester. Professor Jacqueline Geoghegan, chair of the Department of Economics, will moderate the discussion. Panelists include several prominent Clark alumni: Paul Saltzman ’82, president of the Association, The…
Top expert on climate change to speak at Clark University Feb. 4

Clark University will present a lecture by Harvard geologist and leading environmental science expert Daniel Schrag, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St. It will be followed by a public conversation with members of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future (see below). In his lecture titled, “The Anthropocene and Its…
Clark University scientist challenges government on carbon capture and storage subsidies

Jennie Stephens, associate professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University, has published an opinion piece recommending that the resources devoted to reducing carbon emissions be redirected to finding alternatives to fossil fuels. In the Dec. 20, 2013, piece, which was published in the prestigious international journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change and featured on the Post Carbon Institute’s site…
Physics research in Kudrolli lab attracts major funding support

Despite a difficult environment for research funding around the nation in recent years, important work conducted in Clark University Professor Arshad Kudrolli’s physics laboratory has, in just recent months, attracted major research grants. Kudrolli, who is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor at the Department of Physics, and members of the Complex Matter and Nonlinear Physics Laboratory at Clark are…