Melissa Lynch ’95, MSPC ’15
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Salo turns ‘Clark strength’ into career in environmental research
Like most alumni facing a milestone reunion, James Salo ’02, M.A. ’03, is looking forward to catching up with friends and faculty he hasn’t seen since his commencement. But Salo has an additional reason to anticipate Reunion 2012 — he will be honored with the annual Young Alumni Award. “It’s really special,” he says of…
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Students debut original works at Clark’s 2012 New Play Festival
The 2012 New Play Festival features nine student playwrights, three readings and six full productions staged at the Little Center through April 28. The biannual festival heralds the arrival of exciting, fresh talent on the college theater scene, nurtured and developed at Clark. Hear from theater program director Gino DiIorio and student playwrights in this…
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A step toward conservation: Livdahl receives $380,000 NIH grant for parasite dynamics research
Professor Todd Livdahl of Clark’s Department of Biology recently was awarded a three-year, $380,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research titled “Community diversity and parasite dynamics.” This award will support Livdahl’s research on “host dilution,” a hypothesized relationship between the success of a disease and the number of species that the disease…
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A Man of Impact
Watch a tribute to Richard Traina. Richard Traina arrived on campus in 1984 prepared to make changes. Today, his tenure is seen as a transformative time in the University’s history, and in the neighborhood that Clark calls home. Memories, even recent ones, often enough exist on the far side of hazy vistas and in the echoes of…
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Clark mourns death of former president Richard P. Traina
Two days after it opened in 1997, the University Park Campus School played host to state dignitaries including Governor Paul Cellucci. Called upon to speak, Clark President Richard P. Traina called the school’s first students forward to the podium with him, positioning the seventh graders in front of the politicians. Donna Rodrigues, who was the principal at the time, remembers the moment well. “He would step right in front with…
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Clark on the Volga: Graduate program creates Russian masters
The students receiving their diplomas at the commencement exercise on Nov. 13, 2010, had worked hard for the honor. They attended classes, read stacks of texts, performed research and studied countless hours. Now they possessed the thing they had been working toward: a master’s degree from Clark University. And they’d earned it in Russia. The students were enrolled in the graduate program operated by Clark’s…