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Two Clark political science professors are Fulbright Scholars
Two professors in the Political Science Department at Clark University will spend time abroad beginning in the fall of this academic year, each to conduct research and teach courses as Fulbright Scholars, a program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Professor Mark C. Miller will hold the Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the North American…
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Clark University Geography Ph.D. student receives selective Horowitz Foundation research grant
Clark University doctoral student Alida A. Cantor is one of 16 scholars to receive grants for research in the social sciences from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Cantor’s outstanding dissertation proposal, “Dust Storms and Dying Lakes: Wastefulness, Beneficial Use, and Water Transfers in California,” additionally earned the Martinus Nijhoff Award, a special recognition for work on policy implications of scientific,…
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Clark University graduate named to All Star Model UN Team
Clark University graduate Yohan D. Senerath ’14 has been named to the select roster of the 2013-2014 North American College All Star Model UN Team. The list of best delegates in the Model UN College Circuit in the United States and Canada is published by Bestdelegate.com, the premier organization in charge of advocating for Model UN and promoting it worldwide.…
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Panera founder Ron Shaich ’76 tells Clark University graduates, ‘Do the work that matters’
Clark University held its 110th Commencement on Sunday, May 18, awarding 511 bachelor’s degrees, 442 master’s, and 16 doctoral degrees. Students representing more than 80 countries began the traditional processional at noon, moving down a flag-lined pathway to their places under a tent on the campus green. Ron Shaich ’76, founder, chairman of the board, and…
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Clark University Prof. Huang honored as Outstanding Teacher
At Clark University’s annual Senior Brunch (May 14), where faculty and staff serve a hearty breakfast and present awards to soon-to-be graduates, Betsy Huang, associate professor of English and Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion, was honored by her students with the Outstanding Teacher Award.
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Clark U. research: Conflict with communities a big cost to business
A new study has uncovered the true scale of the costs companies incur when they come into conflict with local communities. Co-authored by Anthony Bebbington, the Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, the study contends that understanding the relationships between environmental, social, and business risk might help…
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Clark University Vice President Jack Foley honored by United Way
Jack Foley, the Vice President for Government and Community Affairs and Campus Services for Clark University, was presented with the Orville Harrold Community Leadership Award by the United Way of Central Massachusetts at its Annual Celebration on May 8. The Orville Harrold Award recognizes a person or organization that best embodies the characteristics of Orville…
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Claremont Academy awarded state Innovation Schools Fellowship
In partnership with Clark University, city high school will focus on college readiness
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President Angel, as Higher Ed Consortium Board Chair, opens new offices in downtown Worcester
Clark University President David P. Angel, as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), speaks at the grand opening of new offices in downtown Worcester. Clark University President David P. Angel, in his role as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), led a grand opening and ribbon cutting…
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Prof. Michael Butler awarded fellowship to examine intervention ‘deficit’
Clark University associate professor of political science Michael Butler has recently been awarded a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship to support continuing work on his research monograph “Shunning Strangers: Explaining the Humanitarian Intervention Deficit.” Butler’s work is concerned with examining what he calls a “humanitarian intervention deficit” arising from the increasing reluctance on the part of the…