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Grad student’s cruise director job launches her research on Arctic wildlife

Clark University graduate student Meghan Kelly’s summer job as a cruise director might bring to mind visions of island hopping, basking in the sun and relaxing poolside in a deck chair. In actuality, Kelly’s job with Heritage Expeditions, a New Zealand-based expedition travel company, takes her places far outside of a typical Caribbean cruise, to Antarctica,…
Clark student takes passion for international relations to work at the United Nations, Human Rights Watch

There are few places Dea Dodi ’17 likes to be more than in the United Nations building in New York. You could say she’s been working her way there since the tender age of 12 when she first asked her parents what the term “political science” meant. Fast forward nine years and Dodi, a political science and economics major at Clark,…
The Boston Globe: ‘In Worcester, Mandaeans seek their own temple’

Worcester, home to more than 35,000 immigrants, is embracing and supporting a 2,500-person Mandaean community seeking to deepen its ties to the city, according to a recent Boston Globe article. The article explains the group is without a proper temple or “mandi,” which must be located near running water, central to Mandaeans’ religious beliefs and important to keeping the community within…
Clark University reaches high with new building

Clark University President David Angel stood before the audience who had come together to celebrate the official opening of the Shaich Family Alumni and Student Engagement Center and helpfully offered his own headline for the event: “Reaching outward. Reaching upward.” Over the past year, the Clark community has watched a skeleton of interlocking girders evolve into…
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: ‘Clark celebrates opening new Alumni and Student Engagement Center’

President David Angel, members of the Board of Trustees and other Clark community members celebrated Thursday’s opening of the new Alumni and Student Engagement Center on Main Street. An article in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette chronicles the University’s first major construction project across the street from the main campus buildings. Here, an excerpt: “ ‘It says…
On research trip, professor explores rich history of LGBTQ life in Berlin

Robert Tobin, Henry J. Leir Chair in Language, Literature and Culture at Clark University, recently returned from several weeks in Berlin, where he started a new book project, researching the connection between human rights and sexuality. He also met two Clark students traveling to Europe as part of their undergraduate research, and he connected with…
Worcester honors 99-year-old Clark alum for decades of public service

Retired accountant Stanley Gutridge ’45 may be a numbers man, but he also has a way with words. “I’m the baby of my family,” says the 99-year-old with a laugh, “and the lone survivor.” Gutridge has seen a lot of life while helping others make the most of theirs, efforts that have not gone unnoticed.…
‘Genius grant’ recognizes alumnus’ environmental work in health care

To save the planet, Gary Cohen ’78 advocates for Health Care Without Harm
Clark’s CDP program partners with Worcester on families, food economy

The professors and students in Clark’s Community Development and Planning (CDP) program learn from and work alongside members of the very community they want to transform. Their research not only pursues solutions to problems besetting urban neighborhoods, but also helps governments and nonprofits aspire to a more socially just world. Food and the local economy Associate Professor Ramón…
Alum riding the rails with Millennial Trains Project in the name of social innovation, entrepreneurship

Sharing ideas, growing as leaders, helping others just a few of Harris Rollinger and 24 other millennials' goals for journey