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Jim Keogh

How did the Clarkies catheterize a frog?

It sounds like the setup for an old joke: “How does a Clark biology student catheterize a frog?” And you all know the answer: “Very carefully.” Faye Harwell ’15, a Carlson Summer Intern/Fellow, and fifth-year student Hannah Diebboll ’14 are indeed conducting this delicate procedure as part of their efforts to determine the effects of climate…
Clark gets its close-up in McConaughey film

Chuck Agosta could have anticipated many things when he chose to become a physics professor, from dealing with procrastinating students to vying for dwindling pools of grant money. But he never would have expected to be coaching a movie star on how to deliver his lines. On Sept. 5, Agosta, chair of the Clark University Physics…
Time traveler

At Christie's auction house, G. Max Bernheimer '82 straddles ancient, modern worlds
The Kids are All Right (Their Parents, too)

Two magazine covers, appearing more than five years apart, make Jeffrey Jensen Arnett alternately cringe and smile. The first, from the Jan. 24, 2005, TIME magazine, shows a man in his twenties, dressed in business-casual attire, sitting in a sandbox and looking wistfully into the distance. The accompanying spring 2014 headline reads: “Meet the Twixters, young adults…
President’s lecture takes the temperature of climate change

As climate change occurs, scientists continue to struggle with questions of how the human race must prepare, adapt, and meet its challenges. Daniel Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, dived into some of these critical issues in his lecture, “The Anthropocene and Its Discontents: Climate Change and the Future of the…
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco packs the house (twice)

Richard Blanco smiled, gestured to the standing-room only crowd, and remarked that it was the first time he’d ever witnessed a “poetry stampede.” Indeed, the prospect of hearing Blanco, who was selected to read his original poem at President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration ceremony, reflect on his life and work, drew such an overwhelming crowd…
Justice for Varter

Dr. H. Martin Deranian ’47 was determined to uncover the tragic truth about his mother’s ordeal. Today, Clark professor Taner Akçam challenges the world to honor her memory and that of the millions killed and driven into exile nearly a century ago.
Jeffrey Lurie ’73 talks football, movies and Clark at Reunion

The day after he’d bought the bought the Philadelphia Eagles football franchise in 1994, Jeffrey Lurie ’73 sat at his desk in a windowless office in a dilapidated building and wondered if he’d made the biggest mistake of his life. The rat he watched skitter across the carpet amplified those concerns. His state of mind wasn’t helped…
Ed Quinn ’50 supplied a bird’s-eye view of WWII

Like many military veterans, veterans, Edward Quinn ’50 has saved old photos from the days when he was deployed overseas. But his collection also contains original watercolors, wartime memorabilia, and images that are unlikely to be found in many scrapbooks, except for those compiled by a circle of soldiers that grows smaller as time…
From roof to road, Clark’s campus bears Paul Bottis’ stamp

‘If someone says, “We can’t do this,” then get out of my way and I’ll show you how to do it.’