Stories

  • Jason Feifer ’02 on Clark, writing, and the next Big Idea

    Jason Feifer ’02 on Clark, writing, and the next Big Idea

    Entrepreneur Magazine editor to speak March 31

  • Robin Cohen ’06, M.P.A. ’07: Clark changed her mind — and her life

    When her father pulled up to Clark University for the first time, Robin Cohen ’06, M.P.A. ’07, refused to get out of the car. The high school junior found the campus too small, the neighborhood too gritty, and instantly determined there was no way the university she’d read about in “Colleges That Change Lives” could…

  • Getting ready for International Gala

    Getting ready for International Gala

    Eight things to know about one of the biggest on-campus events of the year

  • Congressman McGovern, Senator Markey Town Hall draws hundreds

    Congressman McGovern, Senator Markey Town Hall draws hundreds

    Town Hall meetings, not ordinarily known for attracting hundreds, have gained renewed attention in the current political environment. A Town Hall event featuring U.S. Rep. James McGovern (D-Worcester) and Edward Markey, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, demonstrated this increased energy, drawing more than 400 people to Atwood Hall at Clark on Sunday, March 19. Worcester City Councilor Sarai Rivera opened the proceedings and…

  • The education of Delight Gavor

    The education of Delight Gavor

    Delight Gavor ’16 lives by a lesson she learned at Clark University: To dream big, then never stop trying to turn those dreams into reality. Gavor, now working toward a master’s degree in education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, held true to that lesson as a Global Scholar pursuing a psychology degree at Clark. She believes there’s nothing…

  • Graduate student shows how MBAs mean good business for environmentalists

    Graduate student shows how MBAs mean good business for environmentalists

    Researching spoon-billed sandpipers in the Arctic might not sound like a job for a prospective M.B.A. student, but that’s exactly what led Meghan Kelly down the path toward graduate school at Clark University. In a recent blog article for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International’s BestBizSchools website, Kelly talks about the research and travel…

  • Clark launches Community and Global Health Program

    Clark launches Community and Global Health Program

    Master of Health Science program supported by Leir Charitable Foundations

  • Sarah Wells ’17 perceives the poetry in physics

    Sarah Wells ’17 perceives the poetry in physics

    If you’re a student of physics, you might understand the abstract concepts behind Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics or Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which describes gravitation. But if you’re an English major, you might think about the words “uncertainty” or “gravity” in a more poetic sense. They are, after all, words found in…

  • Geography Ph.D. candidate uncovers the cold, hard facts about glaciers

    Geography Ph.D. candidate uncovers the cold, hard facts about glaciers

    Glaciers can seem fairly straightforward: they’re large, move slowly and when global temperatures rise, they melt. However, Ashley York, a geography doctoral candidate at Clark University, is discovering the icy behemoths’ relationship to climate change is more nuanced and complex. She’s mapping terminus, or frontal, positions of tidewater glaciers in two bays on the west coast of…

  • Clark to hold 113th Commencement Sunday, May 21

    Clark to hold 113th Commencement Sunday, May 21

    Earl Lewis, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to deliver keynote address