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‘Smart Transit’ moving toward better access to healthcare

* Federal grant supports project to streamline patient-to-provider transport *
Fiske Guide to Colleges includes Clark University in 2016 edition

The Fiske Guide to Colleges, revised and updated for 2016, includes Clark University on its list of the “best and most interesting of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States.” The Fiske Guide covers a range of topics, including academic quality, student body, social life, financial aid, campus setting, housing, food, and…
Clark U. grad receives Fulbright, heads to Taiwan to teach English

Sara B. Goldstein B.A. ’14/M.A. ’15 has received a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Taiwan. Goldstein will participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program, a program that places recent college graduates and young professionals as English teaching assistants in primary and secondary schools or universities overseas. Goldstein will represent the U.S. as a cultural…
Scholars at Risk network, which includes Clark, releases report citing global crisis

Scholars at Risk today (June 23) released the first report of the SAR Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, Free to Think, at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Clark University became a member of the Scholars at Risk Network in 2011 and shares the network’s commitment to preventing attacks on…
Clark University student selected for Fulbright Summer Institute, expands research about Hadrian’s Wall

Clark University undergraduate Hannah Kogut, of Ellington, CT, has been selected as a Fulbright Summer Institute program participant and will spend four weeks at Durham University in the United Kingdom, studying British history and Hadrian’s Wall. Kogut soon will enter her junior year at Clark University, where she double-majors in history and screen studies.…
Clark U. senior receives $10,000 from Davis Projects for Peace to empower Ghanaian schoolchildren

Last summer, Clark University’s Delight Gavor ’16, of Accra, Ghana, received funding and support from Clark’s LEEP initiative to implement a program she co-designed to help 36 truant youth discover and explore their talents in journalism, musical theatre, recycled art, and other areas, and apply those talents to solve problems in their community. This summer,…
Jeffrey Gillooly named Vice President of Advancement at Clark University

Clark University announces the appointment of Jeffrey H. Gillooly as Vice President for University Advancement. In collaboration with Clark’s senior leadership, Gillooly will lead fundraising efforts that will support the University’s academic and capital initiatives, deepen and broaden areas of engagement for alumni, families and friends, and further the culture of philanthropy across the University.…
Nine undergraduates awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support creative projects on campus and abroad

Nine Clark University undergraduate students were recently awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support their pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects this summer and during the 2015–2016 academic year. Information about the students and their projects follows: Oyut Amarjargal ’17, of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, will conduct research and complete a community service project this summer…
Clark campus never a lonely summer place

Caps and gowns are nowhere to be seen and the pace on Clark’s campus has slowed down a bit. Faculty and students come and go as they work on research and special projects, and administrators and staff people take on tasks and long-range planning they had put off during the busy academic semesters. And the…
Clark University students earn bylines in The Worcester Journal

Clark University students are aspiring psychologists, communication specialists, international developers, scientists, educators … and writers. For students whose passion is the written word, The Worcester Journal provides a public outlet for their prose. The online magazine, launched in the fall of 2014, gives promising new writers and photographers in Central Massachusetts and beyond an opportunity…