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Clark students share campus experience with 700+ Family Weekend visitors

The Clark University campus was alive with activity last weekend as students welcomed more than 700 visitors for Family Weekend 2015. From spontaneous selfies with Freud to bus tours to the Worcester Art Museum, students and their honored guests took advantage of all the campus — and city — had to offer. A featured event…
In Istanbul, Clark U. Professor Taner Akçam gives Hrant Dink award ceremony keynote

Clark University Professor Taner Akçam, Endowed Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies, presented the keynote address at the 2015 International Hrant Dink Award ceremony in Istanbul on Sept. 15. The late Hrant Dink was a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist known for his efforts of reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and his advocacy of human and minority rights…
Higgins School of Humanities’ fall dialogue symposium focuses on ‘being human’

This fall, the Higgins School of Humanities’ Dialogue Symposium will focus on the question, “What does it mean to be human?” “I’m only human. I say that a lot: when I can’t get through my to-do list, when I make a mistake, when I am overwhelmed by circumstance or emotion,” wrote Amy Richter, director…
Newly elected Board of Trustees leadership team to advance Clark University’s mission

Steven Swain named Chair; Robert Stevenish and Richard Freeland named Vice Chairs; Linda Savitsky re-elected Secretary
Clark senior gains perspective on Appalachian Trail

The world-famous Appalachian Trail is getting a lot of attention lately, from the release of the film “A Walk in the Woods,” based on author Bill Bryson’s 800-mile trek and starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, to a not-so-flattering Associated Press article about how some hikers are treating the trail. Clark University senior Ted Randich — who last month finished…
U.S. News 2016 Best Colleges guide ranks Clark University 75; 32 as Best Value

The newly released edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges guide again recognizes Clark University’s outstanding academics and financial value. The 2016 ranking places Clark at No. 75 among National Universities and No. 32 on the list of Best Value Schools. “This ranking is just one reflection of the growing recognition of Clark’s leadership and success…
A reality show that’s actually real

Award-winning Clark professor helps city students tell their stories through film
Hard choices in the nonprofit world

For Jessica Horton ’17, the straightforward course title, Community and Health: Nonprofit Grantmaking, hardly hinted at the immersive experience to come. Throughout the fall semester, Horton and her classmates researched, wrote and pitched grant proposals on behalf of several Worcester nonprofit health organizations that address health and social disparities among underserved populations. But the most…
Clark Flashback: ‘After the Levees Broke’

This story ran in the spring 2006 issue of Clark News. Devastating Flood No Match for Alumni Journalists Dan Shea ’81 and Laura Maggi ’95 helped the New Orleans Times-Picayune keep publishing when it was needed most On Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005—the day after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the levees in New Orleans failed—the New…
Clark University’s Cynthia Enloe comments on first women to graduate from Army Ranger School

Listen to reporter Lisa Hagen’s segment for WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, about reaction to the first female soldiers to graduate from the Army’s Ranger School, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver. During the segment, Hagen speaks to Clark UniversityResearch Professor Cynthia Enloe, who studies feminism and women in relation to the military, war and politics, to get her…