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Clark geographer Bebbington inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Clark University Professor of Geography Anthony J. Bebbington was among 164 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge on October 11. The ceremony included talks by five new inductees: Yale physicist Ramamurti Shankar; Diana Wall, ecologist and professor of…
Pulitzer-winner, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey at Clark University Nov. 4

Pulitzer Prize-winner and recent U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will speak at Clark University 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Atwood Hall, on Woodland Street. “Poetry and History: An Evening with Natasha Trethewey” is a continuation of the Dialogue Symposium and African American Intellectual Culture Series offered by the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark. Trethewey will read from her works,…
Gino DiIorio is named Klein Distinguished Professor at Clark University

Clark University President David Angel and Provost Davis Baird have announced the appointment of Professor Gino DiIorio as the next holder of the Andrea B. and Peter D. ’64 Klein Distinguished Professorship. The Klein Endowed Chair rotates among tenured faculty from all departments. Each recipient holds the chair for four years. Previous holders of the professorship include professors…
Clark geographer awarded NASA grants to study carbon release, uptake in U.S. forests

Christopher A. Williams, associate professor of geography in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, was recently awarded two grants from the National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) for a set of projects aiming to determine the balance of carbon uptake and release across forests in the United States using the latest satellite remote-sensing data products in…
Harrington lecturer cites incumbency’s advantages in congressional elections

As the mid-term elections approach, a candidate’s best strategy for being elected a congressman or senator is this: already be a congressman or senator. Indeed, incumbency is the best predictor of success in most national elections, according to Paul S. Herrnson, professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and executive director of the Roper Center for…
White House selects Clark alumnus for post on board of historic TVA

Update (Dec. 9, 2014) U.S. Senate approves recommendation of WREG president to TVA Board (WREG, TN) Walter, general manager of the Memphis CBS television affiliate WREG-TV, and Lodge, a Nashville business consultant who was previously commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services, won 5-year terms on the 9-member, part-time board that oversees TVA. Ronald A. Walter, Clark University alumnus and…
Clark University spruces up Alden Quad

This past summer, the Clark University Physical Plant team spearheaded a significant renovation of the Alden Quadrangle, the green space on campus that is surrounded by two residence halls and the LEEP Center. The project was prompted by an urgent need to replace and make more efficient an aging pipe system, as well as to take a relatively…
Clark U. geographer awarded NSF grant to study governance in community land trusts

Deborah Martin, associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Joseph Pierce (Florida State University) and James DeFilippis (Rutgers University), were recently awarded $175,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their four-year project titled “The scale of governance in the regulation of land: community land trusts in the Twin Cities.” Clark’s portion of the…
Princeton Review: Clark’s Graduate School of Management is a best business school

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Clark University is once again selected as one of the nation’s outstanding business schools by The Princeton Review, which features the school in the new 2015 edition of “The Best 296 Business Schools.” The Princeton Review tallied its Best Business School list based on feedback from 21,600 students attending the 296…
Biblical scholar logs more than 60,000 air miles in sabbatical lecture tour

Everett Fox, Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University, recently returned from a world tour where he addressed English-speaking audiences in Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States about his Biblical translation work. Fox plans to resume his travels with a visit to England in December. Until then,…