Stories
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Clark University area to get $2.3M in streetscape improvement project’
Clark University’s area of Main Street is set for an upgrade. A $2.3 million streetscape improvement project — which includes bike lanes, enhanced pedestrian crossings and improved traffic signaling, according to a recent article in Worcester Telegram & Gazette — will revamp the section of road between Beaver and Woodland streets. Work is expected to begin in summer 2017. Here, an excerpt:…
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The Write Stuff: First book on the moon is housed at Clark University
Autobiography of Robert Goddard was carried on Apollo 11 by Buzz Aldrin
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‘There is no syllabus for this’
Students hone research skills by assessing Worcester’s trees after beetle invasion
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Coyote or coywolf: What’s in a name?
Clark University researchers register a new species called 'Canis oriens'
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Experiencing Russia, one mile and page at a time
Nine books and thousands of miles later, Clark senior reflects on Trans-Siberian Railway trip
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Can Pokémon GO boost local business?
Clark University MBA student believes game's popularity may provide opportunities
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With Mass. considering marijuana legalization, students dig into research
Millennials veer from older generations in their acceptance of marijuana legalization. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 68 percent of those born between 1981 and 1997 approve of legalizing pot versus around 50 percent of Baby Boomers and GenXers. And while Denise Hines, research associate professor of psychology at Clark University, doesn’t necessarily know where her students fall on…
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Clark’s marquee name, nation’s oldest person Goldie Michelson, 113, dies
When asked about her longevity in 2012, Goldie Michelson, M.A. ’36, then 110, told CLARK alumni magazine, “It never occurred to me that I would live this long. I just went on, and I’ve loved it.” Michelson, the oldest person in the United States, passed away last Friday, just one month shy of her 114th birthday. She…
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Clark’s computer science teams make top 5 in regional programming contest
When faced with the pressure of producing computer code that works, and under the most stringent deadlines, Clark University’s computer science students prove they can step up. In the 2016 regional programming contest for the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast (CCSCNE), Clark’s two teams placed second and fourth among 38 competitors that included Middlebury and Wellesley…
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Elie Wiesel’s impact on Clark University
Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel died last week at 87 years old, but not before working unflaggingly to keep the memory of those lost during the Holocaust alive and to encourage the world to remember and understand what both victims and survivors endured. “Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” he said when he accepted…







