Stories
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Program helps refugees bridge a world of difference
A low hum of chatter fills the dining room of the Worcester Senior Center as Anita Fábos describes the findings of Shared Worlds, a research project exploring the relationships between the city’s native-born and foreign-born residents. But the voices buzzing throughout the room aren’t being rude — they are communicating. While Fábos speaks, five interpreters instantly translate…
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Freight Farms: Bounty in a box
Brad McNamara, M.B.A./ES&P '13, is uprooting the traditional food system
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Clark reframes an artistic partnership
For many, the Worcester Art Museum exists solely in the abstract as the impressive-looking building touted in chamber of commerce literature for its world-class treasures. Indeed, it is that. But for Clark University the museum, affectionately known as WAM, is something even more tangible — an active partner that gives students and faculty an opportunity to help…
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Postcards from Poland
Logging miles with Clark’s associate dean for international programs
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Alumna helps uncover evidence of Holocaust escape tunnel in Lithuania
A recent Clark University graduate is part of a research story that has made international headlines: archaeologists’ discovery of a tunnel dug by Jews in Lithuania trying to escape extermination during the Holocaust. After graduating with a dual degree in art history and ancient civilization this May, Rachel Polinsky ’16 traveled to Lithuania to join…
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How well do new immigrants navigate the first year of high school?
Professor lands national fellowship to study academic literacy of newly arrived English language learners in Worcester
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Memorial endowment honors late Clark professor
Siblings of English Prof. Winston Napier establish fund to support Frazier Chair in African American Literature
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On the road with singer-songwriter Olivia Frances
Clark student brings musical talent, drive to succeed to stages in Worcester, Nashville and beyond
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Red beanies, good friends and the shadow of war
Albert B. Southwick '41, M.A. '49, reflects on life at Clark 75 years ago
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In Sri Lanka, student aims for ‘a more robust dialogue about sexuality’
Themal Ellawala ’17, a psychology major at Clark University, returned to Sri Lanka this summer to research how culture, gender norms and stigma affect non-heterosexuals in the island nation where he grew up. Ellawala (pictured above) is interviewing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others (LGBTQ+) who fall under this “non-heterosexual” umbrella in and near…