Stories
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Clark alumna turns her lens on war-torn Yemen
Thana Faroq ’13 took her first photograph — a picture of her family — using her father’s camera when she was just 10 years old. Back then, she and her family lived in a peaceful Yemen, one without war or bloodshed. Today, Faroq (pictured above), a Sanaa-based photographer, captures images of her war-torn city’s street life. Many of…
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Higgins School of Humanities’ fall dialogue symposium to focus on ‘home’
Clark University’s Higgins School of Humanities’ dialogue symposium, “Home (De)Constructed,” will consider the fluid meanings of home. Lectures, community conversations and exhibits will focus on how we define home’s boundaries, and what makes a particular structure, community, city or nation feel like home. “Together we will explore our assumptions about domestic goods and spaces, ask how…
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U.S. News ranks Clark University No. 74 in Best Colleges Guide
University is No. 27 among Best Value Schools
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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…
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Benchley backdrop
A dispatch from the Who Knew?! Department: The former home of Worcester native and famed humorist Robert Benchley (1889-1945) once stood at the very Main Street location of Clark’s new Alumni and Student Engagement Center. Benchley, a prominent writer for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and later an Oscar-winning short-film director, may be…
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#madewithstephen: In lead up to ArtsWorcester award, students offer praise for DiRado
During a Friday ceremony, Clark University Visual and Performing Arts Professor of Practice Stephen DiRado will receive the 35th ArtsWorcester Award to honor his years of artistic and cultural contributions to the city — an award his current and former students believe has been years in the making. “I have no idea if I would even have a photography career…
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Researchers: Global warming leads to drier air, stressed plants
Dry air stresses plants just as much as dry soils, and this source of plant stress is becoming increasingly severe as the planet warms, according to a study published Sept. 5 in the journal Nature Climate Change. “Overall, the study underscores the potent role that dry air plays in causing of plant stress and limiting plant…
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Clark alum brings passion for sustainable development, community to coastal Kenya
After earning a master’s degree in environmental science and policy from Clark University, Farida Hassan, M.S./ES&P ’10, identified a need for environmentally sustainable community development in one of the places that mattered the most to her — Kenya, the country where she was born. “I wanted to give back to my community, and I targeted jobs that…