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Princeton Review: Clark’s Graduate School of Management is a best business school

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Clark University is once again selected as one of the nation’s outstanding business schools by The Princeton Review, which features the school in the new 2015 edition of “The Best 296 Business Schools.” The Princeton Review tallied its Best Business School list based on feedback from 21,600 students attending the 296…
His chosen field

Editor's note: In light of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl win on Sunday, we're republishing this 2013 CLARK magazine story about Eagles owner and Clarkie Jeffrey Lurie '73.
Biblical scholar logs more than 60,000 air miles in sabbatical lecture tour

Everett Fox, Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University, recently returned from a world tour where he addressed English-speaking audiences in Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States about his Biblical translation work. Fox plans to resume his travels with a visit to England in December. Until then,…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz talks about ‘living on the hyphen’

He came to Clark University on Sept. 30 to deliver the President’s Lecture, but novelist Junot Diaz quickly disabused the audience of any notion that his lecture would be like any other delivered within the walls of venerable Atwood Hall. Eschewing the podium to roam the stage, Diaz launched into a dialogue-driven presentation in which he used audience questions to…
Turning High Risk into Great Art

When theater audiences settle into their seats for a Company One production, they can expect something raw and risky and just this side of impossible. Summer L. Williams ’01, M.A.Ed. ’02, a co-founder of the award-winning Boston troupe, directs plays that lead audiences to the creative precipice and dares them to jump. With Clark friends and…
A Force for Change in a Time of Conflict

Andre-Guy Soh, M.A. ’05, has worked in some of the most dangerous places on the planet, from a combat outpost in Afghanistan to Congolese villages living under the threat of terrorist attack. Today, as a Peace and Stability Officer at USAID, Soh assists struggling communities to forge civic connections, improve infrastructure and cultivate peace in…
Millennials with kids? They’re loving it

New Clark University Poll of Established Adults finds thirty-something parents happy despite the strain
The ‘Wow! Wow!’ Factor

If you’re the parent of small children, names like Strawberry Shortcake, Wubbzy, and Foofa are probably part of your vocabulary. And if your child has embraced any of these characters as a new best friend, you might want to know about the apps by Cupcake Digital, brainchild of Brad Powers ’96, M.B.A. ’97. Powers, along…
How did the Clarkies catheterize a frog?

It sounds like the setup for an old joke: “How does a Clark biology student catheterize a frog?” And you all know the answer: “Very carefully.” Faye Harwell ’15, a Carlson Summer Intern/Fellow, and fifth-year student Hannah Diebboll ’14 are indeed conducting this delicate procedure as part of their efforts to determine the effects of climate…
Message from the Alumni Association President

Clark is an investment in our future My name is Leo Velasquez and this year I take over the Alumni Association president position from Shaké Sulikyan ‘01. For those of you who do not know me, I graduated from Clark University as part of the class of 1986 (to the younger alumni: yes, some of us got…