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#DespicableSpree

A recap of “Despicable Spree” Day 2014 by Carlos Deschamps ’16.
#HappyDay

Clark University “Happy” by Pharrell #HAPPYDAY. Video by Carlos Deschamps ’16.
A Clarkie’s Relationship

Clarkie Suaida Firoze and Mushfiq Jahan Khan talk about their life perspectives and their relationship. [Part of Clark film major Skye Wingo’s ’16 “Clark Voices” series.]
Trish Cronin named director of athletics at Clark University

Clark University President David Angel announced that Patricia H. (Trish) Cronin has been named Director of Athletics and Recreation at Clark University. Cronin served as interim director of Athletics and Recreation for the past eight months while the University conducted a highly competitive national search to fill the position. Read more… Read the Worcester Telegram story
Clark University application numbers hit record high

A record 7,291 students applied to become members of Clark University’s Class of 2018, representing a 31 percent increase over last year’s numbers and an astounding 70 percent rise over two years. The Office of Admissions called in all hands — and some pinch hitters — to handle the massive workload, spending long days, nights, and weekends ensuring that…
April 21: ‘Live Long, Die Short’ author to speak at Clark University about successful aging

Former Air Force flight surgeon, dynamic speaker, and author of “Live Long, Die Short: A Guide for Aging Successfully,” Dr. Roger Landry will address one of the fundamental social and public policy issues of our time, in a public lecture titled “The Imperative of Successful Aging: Implications for Policy,” beginning at 4 p.m. Monday, April 21, in the Grace…
Clark University geography program earns prestigious Sussman Foundation support for Ph.D. student researchers

The Clark University Graduate School of Geography has been selected to join a prestigious group of institutions that receive funding from the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation for U.S.-based environmental science Ph.D. student research. Over the last several years, the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation has supported students enrolled in a select number of graduate degree programs, contributing to the scientific…
On the Air: In 1964, Clark students brought a bigger vision to WCUW

Alumni celebrate ‘station with a mission’
The Kids are All Right (Their Parents, too)

Two magazine covers, appearing more than five years apart, make Jeffrey Jensen Arnett alternately cringe and smile. The first, from the Jan. 24, 2005, TIME magazine, shows a man in his twenties, dressed in business-casual attire, sitting in a sandbox and looking wistfully into the distance. The accompanying spring 2014 headline reads: “Meet the Twixters, young adults…
Chaison’s book explores the impact of globalization on unions

Will the rise of the global economy be the death of unions and collective bargaining? How can unions safeguard employee wages, benefits and workplace conditions when companies can hire workers in countries where they have no bargaining power or legal protection? Can unions deal with globalization by using their traditional approaches to representing workers, or…