Stories
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John Templeton Foundation awards $1.45M to Clark University
GRANT SUPPORTS RESEARCH ON HOW COLLEGE EXPERIENCES CAN GIVE DIRECTION TO YOUTHS’ LIVES
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Clark U. to offer Professional Certificate in Youth Work Practice
In a world where racism, sexism, and homophobia exist, it is important for young people to have access to role models they can trust and respect—individuals who can help them develop knowledge, skills, and a sense of purpose. Clark University is now helping to train those leaders by offering a Professional Certificate in Youth Work Practice. “Whether leading…
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Incoming Clark student receives Diller Foundation’s Tikkun Olam award for ‘repairing the world’
A day before she begins classes at Clark University, a school where students are encouraged to “Challenge Convention” and “Change our World,” 18-year-old Maxine J. Harvey, of Methuen, will be recognized and rewarded for co-founding a project which embodies the values of tikkun olam, a central Jewish precept meaning “to repair the world.” Harvey is one of 15…
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Gurel APA-Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers celebrates 10 years
In the past decade, more than 200 high school teachers from around the country have traveled to Clark during the summer to attend the annual Lee Gurel American Psychological Association–Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers. This year, participants left the workshop with new contacts, textbooks and posters, and some took with them something a bit more personal:…
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Clark University named a ‘best buy’ in 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges
The Fiske Guide to Colleges, revised and updated for 2015, includes Clark University as a “Best Buy” among the list of the “best and most interesting of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States.” Clark is one of just 41 institutions — 21 public and 20 private — to receive the Fiske “Best Buy” rating, which…
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Mapping the Future
DAVID ANGEL CAN TICK OFF a slew of statistics demonstrating that Clark has made advancements as a college and university in the past decade. But as the veteran Clark professor and administrator takes on the biggest job of his life — the University’s presidency — he is also keenly aware that the school faces some significant challenges.…
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Clark University named a top service-oriented school for return on tuition investment
Clark University has been ranked a top service-oriented college with an excellent return on investment by Best Value Schools, a free guide to value in higher education. Clark is ranked 22nd on the list of Top 25 Universities for Nonprofit and Community Service Ranked by Return, developed as a resource for service-minded individuals to find quality…
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Clark University biologist’s new research probes ‘gray area’ in science of fungal wood decay
Discoveries by a team of fungal researchers, led by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI and Clark University Professor of biology David S. Hibbett, were released today (June 23) in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, titled “Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm…
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Unintended Consequences
How Clark Changed My Life Without my Knowing it I’ve always been able to think and speak on my feet. Either an innate or learned personality characteristic, I’ve always seemed to possess it. In honesty, it can be both a blessing and a curse. I’ve found myself in just as many predicaments as I have…
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Two Clark political science professors are Fulbright Scholars
Two professors in the Political Science Department at Clark University will spend time abroad beginning in the fall of this academic year, each to conduct research and teach courses as Fulbright Scholars, a program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Professor Mark C. Miller will hold the Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the North American…