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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…
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…
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…
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…
Clark’s curricular innovations garner $620,000 Mellon Foundation grant

Support to help propel Clark’s developments in humanities education
Forbes names Clark a ‘top college’ with strong ROI for grads

Clark University appears in Forbes’ annual guide to America’s Top Colleges, ranked at no. 188 on the list of 660 schools recognized for “quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low debt levels.” Besides the overall ranking, Clark is listed at No. 86 in Research Universities, No. 83 in the Northeast, and No. 141 among Private Colleges. In…
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