Stories
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Shaich family’s $5 million gift helps launch Campaign Clark
Clark University announced the public launch of its $125 million comprehensive campaign at a May 5 event held in the Kneller Athletic Center. A standing ovation greeted the announcement that Ronald Shaich ’76, L.H.D. ’14, the founder, chairman and CEO of Panera Bread, and his family have made a $5 million gift to support Clark’s…
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Clark students help middle schoolers find their voices through poetry, art
In Our Own Words Program partners with Worcester's Claremont Academy
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Courtney Thomas embraces learning and the law
Courtney Thomas ’17 has had many learning moments at Clark University, but her favorite happened when she was teaching others. Thomas, the president of Clark’s Black Student Union, and other students presented a workshop to members of the Clark community during the MLK Racial Justice Teach-In in January. “It was such an amazing opportunity to teach students about power…
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Physics students use air, bubbles and more to teach kids about science
As many educators and parents know, one of the best ways to teach kids about science is by letting them experiment. So when undergraduate students from Clark’s Physics Department held a workshop recently at the annual Cambridge Science Festival, they didn’t lecture kids about the concepts of elasticity, surface tension and light; they let them play with bubbles,…
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Clark’s psychology honor society wins best team award
Clark University’s chapter of Psi Chi, an international honor society in psychology, has been selected for the Kay Wilson Officer Team Leadership Award. The award is presented annually to recognize a chapter for its significant and demonstrable team leadership. The Clark chapter will receive a $2,000 prize and a commemorative plaque. Jennifer Baldwin, awards and grants officer…
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Love of country, and knowledge, inspires Trang Nguyen
In 2008, Trang Nguyen ’17 learned about the financial crisis impacting millions around the world from inside a high school classroom in Singapore. By this point in her young life, she’d already lived in three countries and soon found her teachers piquing her interest to study global economics in a fourth — the United States.…
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Parents in the college selection process: allies or adversaries?
Clark Undergraduate Admissions office hosts professional development symposium for guidance advisers
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Alex Jeannotte ’17 helps reconstruct a lost family history
Because of their dogged pursuit of elusive primary sources, historians often are equated with detectives – a theme represented in a decade-long PBS series, History Detectives. For Alex Jeannotte ’17, that theme has carried through much of her time at Clark University, where she has helped knit together the genealogy of an African-American family who migrated…
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Nine Steinbrecher Fellows to pursue projects in sciences, humanities
Nine Clark University students have been awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to pursue original ideas, creative research and community service projects this summer and during the 2017-18 academic year. The Steinbrecher Fellowship Program was established in 2006. The newest Steinbrecher Fellows are all members of the Class of 2018. They and their projects include: Odgerel Chintulga, who will…