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Kiplinger’s cites Clark’s quality, affordability
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance again has included Clark University on its list of the country’s Best College Values. This annual list ranks 100 private universities, 100 public schools and 100 liberal arts colleges. Clark appears at No. 33 on the ranking of Best Values in Private Universities for 2018. All of the schools in the 2018 lists provide high-quality academics…
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Via Problems of Practice course, students gain experience in monitoring conservation land
'This course gives me direction for what I want to do after graduation,' Olivia Barksdale '19 says
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NYC workshop for tech women connects Clark students with IT leaders
The United States will continue to see an increase in computing jobs over the next decade, but more than two-thirds of those jobs will go unfilled because there aren’t enough qualified applicants. At the same time, more men than women continue to pursue information technology careers, despite the fact that more women are going to…
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Physics research reaches into the cosmos
Muhammad Kasule ’18 is graduating from Clark University this December with multiple research experiences in hand, including one where he’s examining how life may form in outer space. “My research is centered on understanding how prebiotic molecules form in space,” Kasule says. “Prebiotic molecules are essentially the building blocks of life. They are the molecules…
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New trustees bring business, economic and marketing expertise to Clark University’s mission
Clark University has announced the appointment of Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Nancie Julian and Ronald Shaich to its Board of Trustees. The new trustees, all of whom are Clark alumni, add their expertise and vision to the board’s mission to amplify Clark’s reputation as a transformative force in liberal education and ensure its standing as a destination of…
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Alumni director brings experience, fresh ideas
'I was always looking to come back to a place like Clark,' Kevin Wesley says
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‘Hair Story’: Charline Kirongozi pulls together strands of politics, history behind black hair
Clark student's research examines issues facing children of the African diaspora, from Maine to Mali
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The skink link: Clark biology student studies an evolution revolution
Since 1893, most biologists have accepted Dollo’s law, named for the Belgian paleontologist who hypothesized that evolution moves forward, never reversing. A living organism doesn’t regain a trait — an inherited characteristic, like a tail or limb – lost during its evolutionary development, Louis Dollo suggested. About Erika Schaper ’18 Major: Biology Minor: Chemistry Hometown: Concord, N.H. Over…
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Frank Abell has his radar out for chemical dangers
Frank Abell remembers the day his son visited his office on the first floor of the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center. Abell, Clark University’s laboratory manager/chemical safety officer, sat at his desk amid filing cabinets and boxes of supplies as students and professors rotated through. Undergraduates sought to buy white lab coats. Faculty researchers asked…
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Clark Diarist connects through theatre
Playwright Raechel Segal '17 sees her undergraduate experience filled with opportunities for the future