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LEEP Fellows make their case in Hervey Ross ’50, L.H.D. ’07 Oratorical Contest

The Hervey Ross ’50, L.H.D. ’07 Oratorical Contest was designed specifically for Clark University LEEP Fellows to describe their summer projects. But presenter Katherine Liptak ’15 asserted right away that her talk would not pile on the details of the summer internship she spent in Cape Town, South Africa, but rather she would unpeel the process of rethinking…
Expert on American education achievement gap to speak at Clark University Nov. 18

Eric Schwarz, author of “The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers are Combating the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools,” will speak at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor of the Higgins University Center at Clark University. Schwarz’s lecture, “The Opportunity Equation: How a shadow education system outside of school is growing America’s achievement gap and what…
In Good Company

A troupe of Clarkies is turning the Boston theater scene on its head
A badge and a bandage

The camera crew from the CNN documentary series “Chicagoland” follows Dr. Andrew Dennis ’92 into the Trauma Unit at Cook County Hospital, where he puts his hands into the open abdomen of 24-year-old Jerimiah Milsap and works feverishly to pull him from the brink. Moments earlier, Jerimiah had been gunned down while sitting on his front porch…
Tradition meets transformation

Planned Alumni and Student Engagement Center embodies Clark's educational ambitions, reaffirms University's commitment to Main Street South
‘Manufacturing Denial’ conference delves into multi-disciplinary genocide scholarship

Historians, social scientists, philosophers, and natural scientists gathered recently at Clark University to discuss the phenomena of genocide denial and the denial of scientific truth—from evolution to climate change—during an academic conference held at both Clark and Worcester State University. “Manufacturing Denial: the Assault on Scholarship and Truth” (Oct. 24-25) was co-sponsored and organized by the Strassler Center…
David Prentice’s beef with burgers

See that hamburger on your plate? Juicy, blanketed with cheese, capped with onion, drenched with ketchup — at this moment, it probably looks like the most perfect thing in the world. How much do you think that hamburger cost? No, not the price you paid for it, but the cost to the environment to produce…
Clark U. geographer receives prestigious residency from The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center

Yuko Aoyama, professor in Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography, was awarded a prestigious four-week academic writing residency from The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, in Bellagio, Italy. The residency will provide Professor Aoyama with an unparalleled opportunity to network with fellow residents at the Center next summer, and a serene setting in which to pursue her project, “Collaborative Governance…
Close encounters of the learned kind: Science fiction emerges from the academic shadows

For more than a century, if a science fiction book was read in a college classroom, it likely was hidden behind a textbook or secretly propped open under a desktop. These days, however, the popular genre is no longer an alien subject in academia. Four professors have created a vibrant new learning community at Clark…
‘Black lives matter’: Alumnus shares perspective on Ferguson shooting

The Aug. 9 killing of African-American teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a wave of protests in the immediate aftermath, and the incident is emblematic of a nationwide scourge in which the lives of young black men are regarded as “disposable and without value,” Clark University Trustee Steven Roberts ’74 told…