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Helping Muslim women find their voices

MuslimGirl.net founder Amani Al-Khatahtbeh speaks at Clark
A world of difference

Clark’s Marsh Institute looks to forge a lasting relationship between humans and their planet, while there’s still time
What motivates managers? Money, yes, but so much more

Clark University and Center for Creative Leadership publish research on workplace motivation
Life in the fast lane

Clark's supercomputer cluster key to researchers' work
Supercomputers power a biology revolution at Clark

To hear John Gibbons talk about bioinformatics, you’d think this trend in the sciences is relatively straightforward. “Historically, if you used a computer to analyze biological data, it was considered bioinformatics,” he says. But Gibbons, an assistant professor of biology at Clark University, admits that description undersells the benefits. With science and technology meshing at an incredible pace, scientists…
Pint-Sized Players, Texas-Sized Dreams

“Friday Night Tykes” producer Matt Maranz ’87 peers into the troubled soul of youth sports
Ben Bagdikian ’41 championed the public’s right to know

Ben Bagdikian ’41, who died March 11 at the age of 96, enjoyed a storied career in journalism. He won the Pulitzer Prize, reported on prisons, poverty and civil rights, and defied the federal government by helping publish the Pentagon Papers, thus securing one of history’s greatest victories for freedom of the press. Later he…
Sen. Warren urges every child be given ‘a fighting chance to succeed’

It was not a religious revival, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren did ask for one “amen” from the podium in Clark University’s Atwood Hall. Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic decision ending school segregation Brown v. The Board of Education, she cited Justice Earl Warren, who observed that a public school education “is a right that must be…
Make Central Mass. the affordable college capital

At or near the top of the long list of what makes Central Massachusetts an attractive alternative to other areas of the state and the country is its affordability. The WPI ranking comes on the heels of Anna Maria College and Quinsigamond Community College creating a $40,000 program for first responders and social workers to…
Historian shares research on the female face of genocide

Woodstock Academy welcomed Dr. Sarah Cushman as its third guest in a Genocide Speaker Series on March 7. Cushman is the head of educational programming at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her mission to take a hard look at the Holocaust and examine…