ClarkNews
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Dolan to receive award at Reunion for a lifetime of service to Clark
If you were to read aloud the list of positions, awards and achievements that Tom Dolan ’62, M.A.Ed. ’63 compiled during his 42-year career at Clark University, you would first have to draw a deep breath. Indeed, just typing it could give you carpal tunnel syndrome. Regardless, here goes: In his time at the University,…
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Marsh-Mosakowski NOAA Fellows to embark on summer research
Five Clark juniors will spend the summer conducting research in some of the nation’s ecologically sensitive regions, thanks to a partnership between two Clark institutes and the federal agency charged with watching over the health of the nation’s skies and oceans. The George Perkins Marsh Institute and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise announced the first group of students…
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Students present projects at annual regional computing symposium
Clark University computer science students presented projects at the New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium 2012 (NEUCS12) held at Brandies University on April 21. NEUCS 2012 brought together undergraduates in the computing sciences from universities, colleges, and community colleges in the New England area. The annual symposium, now in its fourth year, celebrates excellence and diversity in undergraduate computing. *…
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Safe Siren wins Innovation & Entrepreneurship capstone contest
Clark University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Capstone is a rigorous course that teaches students to develop a business venture using what they have learned at Clark University. The spring 2012 competition had four teams competing for the title of Competition Winner. The teams spent the spring semester conceiving and developing a business. To win the competition teams must have…
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‘Mining can undermine development efforts,’ Clark U. expert warns Canada lawmakers
Anthony Bebbington, Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Graduate School of Geography, recently traveled to Ottawa to serve as an invited witness before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on “The Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Canada’s International Development Interests.” The other witness was Brent Bergeron, vice…
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Clark to celebrate 25th anniversary of ‘Earth Transformed,’ April 2
A quarter century ago, Clark University hosted a landmark international conference, “The Earth as Transformed by Human Action,” which highlighted international research tracing the effect of human activity on the global environment for the previous 300 years. Humanity continues to face fundamental questions explored at the conference about the fate of the biosphere and the capacity…
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Feinstein receives Visions Award for community leadership
Matthew Feinstein, co-director of the Worcester Roots Project, is the recipient of the 2011 Telegram & Gazette Visions Young Leader Award, honoring his community leadership. Feinstein, who grew up in Western Massachusetts, came to Clark University and graduated with a master’s degree in International Development in 2003. He has been in Worcester for 12 years. “When people ask me…
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Catherine Usoff named dean of Graduate School of Management
Catherine Usoff, Ph.D., has been selected as dean of Clark’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM). She previously served as professor and chair of the Information & Process Management Department at Bentley University. She starts her new post on June 1. “Professor Usoff has an impressive track record in spearheading major curriculum innovations at both the undergraduate…
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Akçam wins landmark free-speech case in Euro human rights court
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Oct. 25 that a violation was committed against freedom of expression in the case of Clark University Professor Taner Akçam. Akçam, the first Turkish scholar to publicly express his conviction that the 1915 Armenian genocide occurred under the Ottoman Empire (of which Turkey is a successor state), brought…
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NRC assessment places geography doctorate program with tops in U.S.
The doctorate program at the Clark University Graduate School of Geography is one of the top-ranked in the nation by the National Research Council (NRC). In April, the NRC released an update to its Data-Based Assessment on Research Doctorate Programs in the United States, a complex and long-anticipated assessment first published in September 2010. Clark ranks first in one…