Stories
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Clark U. research: Conflict with communities a big cost to business
A new study has uncovered the true scale of the costs companies incur when they come into conflict with local communities. Co-authored by Anthony Bebbington, the Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, the study contends that understanding the relationships between environmental, social, and business risk might help…
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Clark University Vice President Jack Foley honored by United Way
Jack Foley, the Vice President for Government and Community Affairs and Campus Services for Clark University, was presented with the Orville Harrold Community Leadership Award by the United Way of Central Massachusetts at its Annual Celebration on May 8. The Orville Harrold Award recognizes a person or organization that best embodies the characteristics of Orville…
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Clark U. dialogue symposium lecture examines the origins of ‘Loserville’
In the United States, a person who has failed in one or more activities has come to be labeled a loser — a “deficient self,” according to Carnegie-Mellon University historian Scott A. Sandage. In his March 25 lecture “Welcome to Loserville: A Historian Talks about Failure,” Sandage used the historian’s lens to examine the shift in…
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Claremont Academy awarded state Innovation Schools Fellowship
In partnership with Clark University, city high school will focus on college readiness
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Clark students demonstrate physics at Cambridge Science Festival
Five Clark undergraduates — Xiying Huang ’16, Ruoyang Lin ’16, Andrew Masley ’14, David Scheff ’15 and Zhuoming (Colin) Tan ’16 — took part in The 8th Annual Cambridge Science Festival at the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday, April 19. The Clark students presented several hands-on demonstrations that made learning the laws of physics accessible and fun. The…
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Clark collaborates with the EcoTarium on prototyping ‘City Science’ Exhibits
Students work with museum staff and young patrons to develop exhibits on bird habitats, neighborhoods
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President Angel, as Higher Ed Consortium Board Chair, opens new offices in downtown Worcester
Clark University President David P. Angel, as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), speaks at the grand opening of new offices in downtown Worcester. Clark University President David P. Angel, in his role as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), led a grand opening and ribbon cutting…
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Time traveler
At Christie's auction house, G. Max Bernheimer '82 straddles ancient, modern worlds
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Bob Ross Embodies the Scholar-Activist
Within days of his formal retirement celebration last December, sociology professor Robert J. S. Ross published a letter to the editor of The New York Times about taxes and sweatshops and penned a Huffington Post column on yet another factory fire in Bangladesh. Earlier in the year he’d placed an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel challenging American clothing retailers to “put up or shut up.” That…
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Clark U. political science students tour U.N., meet with ambassadors
Students from the Clark University Model United Nations Program, along with students enrolled in the University’s “United Nations and International Politics” course, made a field visit to United NationsHeadquarters in New York on April 17. The delegation, led by Political Science Professor Srinivasan Sitaraman, included a visit to the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, where the students were…