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Fight against climate change gains 21 new, powerful allies

Mother Nature has a new, powerful ally — a group of 21 Americans ages 8 to 19 who filed a lawsuit against the federal government for, they say, not acting quickly enough to stop global warming. Our Children’s Trust, a climate advocacy group for all generations, according to its website, filed the suit on behalf of the children and…
Clark community helps Worcester schoolchildren get a running start

Connections between campus and school, including a new road race, benefit Columbus Park students
Clark University student presents sexual consent education program at international conference

Clark University graduate student Sarah Dys, from Dracut, presented “Campus Consent: For Students, By Students” at the annual End Violence Against Women International Conference in Washington, D.C., March 21-24. As co-founder of Consenting Communities, Clark’s mandatory orientation educational program, Dys was selected to present at the conference, where she focused on sexual consent education at Clark, enabled through student…
Blackhawk gives voice to the unspoken genocide

It was the extermination of entire tribes — the murder and displacement of millions, the theft of lands, the destruction of cultures. And yet, according to Yale professor Ned Blackhawk (pictured), the eradication of Native Americans in the United States and Canada over several centuries somehow escapes consideration as a genocide in many history texts. In the April 15…
Envisioning a changed world

Professor Eastman’s exhibit depicts the troubling beauty of humans’ environmental impact
Reviewer calls Valerie Sperling’s Putin book a ‘must-read’

Political Science Professor and Chair Valerie Sperling’s book about Vladimir Putin landed a stellar review in Slavic Review: the Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. “Sex, Politics, and Putin is a must-read for scholars studying the politics of gender in Slavic studies,” writes Julie Hemment of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, noting that Sperling’s book “makes good…
Coastal towns awash in hard choices

We see it on the news: video footage of waves crashing violently against seawalls, water flooding streets and making them impassable, beaches eroding and waterfront homes collapsing into the surf. As sea levels rise, officials and residents of coastal communities must make decisions about whether and how to address these problems. The solutions can be…
GIS in Palestine: Alum bringing city up to speed

Middle Eastern news site notes Clark connection in Ramallah's 'smart city' effort
The sounds of Spree Day

Band 3 Piece Meal and artist Van Ward — all Clarkies — draw musical inspiration from many places
WBUR: ‘There’s a big gender gap In key theater jobs — can Boston change the story?’

Clark University alumna Summer L. Williams ’01, M.A.Ed. ’02 is quoted in a WBUR The ARTery story about whether the Boston theater scene is making progress against a trend identified in an in-progress Wellesley College study on gender gaps in key theater positions nationwide. In 1998, Williams, along with a group of Clark alums, co-founded Company One Theatre, located in Boston. Here,…