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Clark biologist helps trace the fresh popularity of ancient koji
With $2M in grants, researcher uses economics to inform environmental sustainability

Flint, Michigan, officials decided to save $5 million by switching the city’s water source to a more risky alternative. That fateful decision not only exposed 8,000 children to lead poisoning, it also could cost taxpayers an estimated $395 million or more to address the long-term health, educational and social problems stemming from resulting health effects. For environmental…
Professor presents findings on ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

USDA awards Edward Carr for work on climate change, food security
$Undergrads’ physics research drills deep into fracking-induced quakes$

Undergrads’ physics research drills deep into fracking-induced quakes

Two undergraduates majoring in physics at Clark University are working with their professor, Arshad Kudrolli, to fine-tune a mathematical model that captures the development of erosion underground. Their research, part of a summer LEEP project, eventually could help scientists better understand the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other cases where fluids carve out channels and destabilize the…
7 Continents, 1 Summer: Clarkies travel around the world – and back again

Over three months this summer, we took you on a journey across the world, from the streets of Haiti to the railways of Russia; from Antarctica’s Clark Mountains to the Arctic’s Wrangel Island. Along the way, we met Clark University undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni and staff who, among other things, studied tree death…
Grad student researches small-scale gold-mining’s impact on biodiversity in Peru

Madre de Dios, in the northern Amazon region of Peru, has been hard hit by the devastating environmental effects of gold-mining. “Whole areas have been transformed into veritable deserts and wastelands,” The Guardian reported recently. That ongoing damage drew Kate Markham, a second-year student in Clark University’s Environmental Science and Policy master’s degree program, to the area to conduct…
Spotted owls vs. barred owls: Clark ethicist helps guide debate on protecting species

The Pacific Northwest is in the middle of “Owl Wars,” in which the possible extinction of the northern spotted owl is being weighed against the intrusion of another — the barred owl. After a decade of planning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has concluded that the only way to save the spotted owl from extinction…
From A to Zika, Clark grad researches epidemics for the WHO

How do you graduate from a small high school in Granby, Connecticut, and end up conducting research on Zika and other epidemics at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland? If you’re Aaron Johnson ’15, M.S.P.C. ’16, you do that by gaining experience in marketing communications and living and learning alongside people from all over the world at…
Students bring ‘fresh insights’ to research on gene expression and more

Clark University juniors Navid Al Hossain ’18 and Michael Gaiewski ’18 spent the summer delving into the mathematical modeling of gene expression, the process through which genetic information in DNA drives the synthesis of protein products. They worked in the laboratory of Jacqueline Dresch, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. “It’s been an amazing…
After Coast Guard career, Clark grad student explores immigration issues

Since arriving at Clark University last fall to study international development and social change, Christopher Owens, M.A. ’17, has traveled to conduct research about refugees in two countries: Haiti and Jordan. In March, Owens headed to Port-au-Prince with Associate Professor Jude Fernando and five other graduate students to study the impacts of humanitarian and government…