Jim Keogh
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Author, activist Naomi Klein urges boldness on climate change
Naomi Klein did not mince words. “Climate change is a crisis of narrative, a crisis of world view and a crisis of spirit,” the author and activist told the audience packed into Clark University’s Atwood Hall, and another watching via livestream in Jefferson 320. Klein delivered the Feb. 26 President’s Lecture, which kicked off the University’s second…
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Fighting for breath
Dr. Richard Pietras ’69 pioneered a groundbreaking treatment for breast cancer. Now he is taking on the growing epidemic of lung cancer in women.
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Lecturer offers recipe to fix broken American food system
One in six Americans struggles with hunger. That’s 49 million people. It’s a disarming statistic, and it’s also an unnecessary one, insists Doug Rauch, the former president of the Trader Joe’s Company grocery chain. In his Feb. 18 Clark University President’s Lecture inside a packed Razzo Hall, Rauch offered pointed criticism of the American food system, which leaves too many…
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Learning the virtues of discomfort
Joel Simonson ’15, wasn’t sold on Clark right away. He liked it, but didn’t love it, when he first visited as a high school student. But as he saw the opportunities unfolding — the offer of a Traina Scholarship, the chance to do meaningful research in biology, a shot at playing on the varsity tennis…
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Speaker advises how to turn the tide on Boston flooding
In old science fiction movies, invading aliens would warn the human race: “Resistance is futile.” For coastal cities facing their own invading force — rising sea levels — resistance may indeed be futile, but resilience and creativity could be the keys not only to surviving, but thriving. That was the takeaway message of Julie Wormser,…
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Dual MBA grad’s Leafy Green Machine returns to its roots on Clark campus
Clark University officially has its own farm. There are no animals, no barn, not even soil. And yet it will supply a steady harvest of crops regardless of the season. On Jan. 15, the University received delivery of a Freight Farm — a retrofitted shipping container housing a fully functional hydroponic farm known as the Leafy Green Machine.…
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Clark students add a touch of blue to historic Worcester Art Museum exhibition
The Worcester Art Museum’s current exhibition, “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period,” is a bit of unfolding history. It’s the first major museum exhibition in the United States exclusively devoted to the 150-year legacy of this long-overlooked technique that gives photographs a distinct blue tint, turning even mundane images into something ethereal. And Clark University has played…
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Student research smokes out facts on tobacco use
The American Cancer Society launched the Great American Smokeout in 1977 as a way to encourage millions of Americans to put down their cigarettes, cigars and pipes for 24 hours in recognition of the dangers of their habit. Held on the third Thursday of each November, the event promotes the singular message: Quit. Now. Samantha…
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The Entrepreneur’s Journey
A Clark internship helped inspire Hugh Panero ’78 to launch XM Satellite Radio, bring cable TV to the masses, and venture into the digital universe