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Clark University language students share poetry, songs, video with poet, AIDS activist

On March 30, Clark University and the Department of Language, Literature and Culture welcomed a special guest, poet and AIDS activist Norberto A. Stuart, who inspired students and faculty alike as he shared both his poetry and his story. An AIDS activist who has been living with the disease for 25 years, Stuart encouraged students…
Clark U. students celebrate Earth Week with lectures, giveaways, and field trips

Clark University students spent last week attending lectures and films, and participating in competitions and giveaways as part of a coordinated campus-wide effort to honor and celebrate Mother Earth. Early in the week, students who ventured near the Academic Commons at Goddard Library were exposed to a “grave situation” — a sea of painted tombstones…
Family Impact Seminar examines foster care, child protective services

The Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University launched its Family Impact Seminars in 2010, bringing together researchers and legislators to address the effect of the recession on Massachusetts families. The seminars, planned and facilitated by FIS director Denise Hines, research associate professor of psychology at Clark, have explored a range of issues, from…
Clark U. students travel to Capitol Hill to advocate for international education

Four Clark University students traveled to Capitol Hill recently to participate in NAFSA (Association of International Education) Advocacy Day, an annual event devoted to educating members of Congress about how international education impacts states and districts, and why it’s important to have a more globally engaged United States. Eriberto Mora ’17 of Worcester, Connor Ruby…
Clark University Climate Change Teach-In grapples with the ‘issue of our time’

Don’t be fooled by Worcester’s brutal winter, Susanne Moser, Ph.D. ’97, told the audience in Atwood Hall. Our planet just experienced its warmest year on record, and the temperatures are rising. “Every single ecological and biological system on earth is seeing the impact of climate change” in unprecedented ways, Moser said. “There is no arguing…
Clark University community mourns death of former president Frederick Jackson

The following statement was sent by President David Angel to Clark faculty, staff and alumni:
Archives and Special Collections house treasures that would have amazed Jonas Clark himself

Archivist Fordyce Williams receives periodic requests from people inquiring about a family member’s time at Clark University. “Can you send me the yearbook photo of my grandfather?” they may ask. Or, “Did The Scarlet review the student play my mother directed?” Last October, Williams took a call from a colleague at a Boston-area college…
Orienting: Dreadlocks, commutes and birthday cake

Episode #2 of Clark University junior and screen studies major Skye Wingo’s study abroad experience in Japan.
Dis-Orientation: Studying in Japan

Clark University junior and screen studies major Skye Wingo’s first episode about his study abroad experience in Osaka, Japan.
Clark U. historian co-edits book on women and work in 18th-century France

Women not only comprised a significant part of the labor force in eighteenth-century France, but the ubiquity of their employment was such that the presence of women in the workplace was considered by the government as “routine and expected.” Those conclusions are supported by essays collected in a new book: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century…