Stories
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President Angel, Clark featured in new book ‘PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Students Success’
Clark University President David Angel explains how the University’s liberal arts education serves its students and a fast-changing workforce in “PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success,” a new book written by Bentley University President Gloria Cordes Larson. Larson draws upon her own experience and that of other university educators and company recruiters and executives to outline ways to reshape…
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Lucyna Kogut molds her medical future
Lucyna Kogut ’18 chose Clark University because “I knew I wanted to be surrounded by people who were passionate about something. It didn’t matter what it was.” In her first semester here, however, she hadn’t yet identified her passion — and especially never thought it would be science. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to…
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Professor Akçam receives 2018 ‘Upstander’ honor from World Without Genocide
Clark University history Professor Taner Akçam will be honored with the 2018 Outstanding Upstander Award from the World Without Genocide organization for his tireless work promoting justice and the rule of law. World Without Genocide, housed at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, works “to protect innocent people around the world; prevent genocide by combating racism and prejudice;…
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Working with Holocaust survivor, Clark student helps cast light on Auschwitz medical horrors
Casey Bush ’19 preserves memories of Eva Kor and others who survived Dr. Josef Mengele, 'The Angel of Death'
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For 46 years, Rudolph Nunnemacher taught biology at Clark with rare style
Professor Rudolph Nunnemacher emerged from his office carrying the lens of a whale’s eye. The electricity to the biology building was temporarily out of service, and he had just the remedy to brighten the darkness. He said to me, ‘Come watch this,’ remembers Michael Rosenzweig ’85, who followed obediently to the door of the…
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Alex Hayes ’16 helps give POW! WOW! Worcester its punch
For the next week or so, you’ll find Alex Hayes ’16 surrounded by that which he loves – art and the Worcester community. “Art is a part of my life,” he says, peering up at a three-story brick wall at Elm Park Community School that artist Kristin Farr is transforming for POW! WOW! Worcester. The mural festival, in…
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Otis Ferguson: The man who panned ‘Oz’
The working-class kid from Worcester championed the nobility of the little guy in films
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Clark students study youth culture in Cuba
Cuba has often been referred to as an island nation that is “stuck in time.” However, Crystal Hill ’20, a women’s and gender studies major, was pleasantly surprised to notice that while the city of Havana included classic ’50s Cadillacs and relics from years past, it also contained billboards about modern-day social problems such as…
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A student’s take on Cuba
Crystal Hill '20 traveled to Caribbean country with Clark experiential learning group.
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Tess’ Journey
Unleashing the power of words