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Studying in China, learning about herself

Clark student adopted from China returns to study abroad experience, reconnect with heritage
2017 Fiske Guide cites Clark University’s LEEP model, caring community, global outlook

“The Fiske Guide to Colleges,” revised and updated for 2017, again includes Clark University in its annual “selective, subjective, and systematic look at three-hundred-plus colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and the U.K.” The guide covers a broad range of topics, including academic quality, student body, social life, financial aid, campus setting, housing, food, and…
Clark undergrads receive funding for summer internships at Facing History and Ourselves

Spencer Cronin ’18 and Hannah King ’19 are spending the summer interning for Facing History and Ourselves in Brookline, continuing their studies and conducting research with the help of stipends they received from Clark’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. Cronin, a history major, is developing programs of Holocaust and genocide studies education for secondary schools across the country while at…
Clark professor signs petition requesting WHO, IOC postpone or move Olympic Games due to Zika

Philosophy Department Chair Patrick Derr likens response to Zika to early years of AIDS pandemic
Alumna cooking up a recipe for women’s success

After conducting field work in Haiti, Lelani Williams, MBA/MA '16 crafted the idea for Sun Top Solar Cookers to help women in developing countries learn new skills
The Christian Science Monitor: ‘The brewing liberal labor revolution’

The growing effort toward raising the minimum wage in the United States to $15 an hour — which has already happened in several locations — is leading to an examination of labor laws that date back nearly a century, according to a Christian Science Monitor article. Drawing upon the social contract established by those labor laws, Clark University’s Gary N. Chaison,…
Close-ups from far away

Free, high-resolution satellite imagery soon to be available to Clark faculty and students
All the world’s a classroom to Jude Fernando

Clark IDSC professor shows his students how fieldwork abroad helps them learn about themselves and what they're researching
Alumni research fellows return with insight and advice

Steinbrecher, Anton funding helped graduates 'change the lens' through which they view the world
UMassMedNow: ‘Summer Enrichment Program leads diverse students on path to medical school’

UMassMedNow, the online publication of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, highlighted the members of its 2016 Summer Enrichment Program, including Clark University’s Iva Hoxha ’17. Hoxha, who came to the United States from Albania with her family when she was 15, took part in the program, which gives aspiring medical students from economically disadvantaged homes and backgrounds underrepresented…