Jim Keogh Archives

Jim Keogh

No spy games, but plenty of research

William “Will” Rogers ’59 has sent along a token of thanks for being interviewed about his 51-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. With it he’s enclosed a note: “Thought you might like a CIA pen. Don’t worry, it doesn’t do anything but write.” It’s the sort of quip he’s accustomed to delivering when the…
Arid nations ride wave of ‘water tech’

“The world is thirsty, and getting thirstier.” So announced David Goodtree, co-founder of the New England Water Innovation Network (NEWIN), as he opened the March 11 President’s Lecture in Razzo Hall at Clark University. Goodtree spoke about global water scarcity and the conflicts that arise as nations go dry. He noted that the simple law…
Speaker: Time for U.S. to address the education achievement gap

If Rip Van Winkle awoke from a 99-year nap he would discover a world that had vastly changed in all areas except one: education. A lone teacher imparting academic lessons to a classroom of students remains the familiar, comfortable model that has persisted for generations. But is it still effective? Eric Schwarz, the co-founder and…
A badge and a bandage

The camera crew from the CNN documentary series “Chicagoland” follows Dr. Andrew Dennis ’92 into the Trauma Unit at Cook County Hospital, where he puts his hands into the open abdomen of 24-year-old Jerimiah Milsap and works feverishly to pull him from the brink. Moments earlier, Jerimiah had been gunned down while sitting on his front porch…
Tradition meets transformation

Planned Alumni and Student Engagement Center embodies Clark's educational ambitions, reaffirms University's commitment to Main Street South
David Prentice’s beef with burgers

See that hamburger on your plate? Juicy, blanketed with cheese, capped with onion, drenched with ketchup — at this moment, it probably looks like the most perfect thing in the world. How much do you think that hamburger cost? No, not the price you paid for it, but the cost to the environment to produce…
An ounce of prevention

In health care circles, John O’Brien is known as a “turnaround guy.” He takes something that’s struggling and makes it succeed, or he takes something that’s already working and makes it work better. O’Brien has been the CEO of two hospital systems, served as the commissioner of public health for the city of Cambridge, Mass.,…
Former President Clinton draws a crowd, and then some, to Atwood Hall at Clark U.

A bouquet of umbrellas sprouted outside Clark University’s Atwood Hall two hours before former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to arrive there. Before long, the line of umbrellas stretched beyond the Goddard Library, as people patiently waited in a steady rain for the chance to see Clinton take the stage to speak on behalf of…
His chosen field

Editor's note: In light of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl win on Sunday, we're republishing this 2013 CLARK magazine story about Eagles owner and Clarkie Jeffrey Lurie '73.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz talks about ‘living on the hyphen’

He came to Clark University on Sept. 30 to deliver the President’s Lecture, but novelist Junot Diaz quickly disabused the audience of any notion that his lecture would be like any other delivered within the walls of venerable Atwood Hall. Eschewing the podium to roam the stage, Diaz launched into a dialogue-driven presentation in which he used audience questions to…