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President’s lecture takes the temperature of climate change
As climate change occurs, scientists continue to struggle with questions of how the human race must prepare, adapt, and meet its challenges. Daniel Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, dived into some of these critical issues in his lecture, “The Anthropocene and Its Discontents: Climate Change and the Future of the…
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‘Don’t Bite Your Tongue’ series brings campus community together over dinner and dialogue
A new series of “Don’t Bite Your Tongue” dinners brings together Clark University students – face-to-face in their residence halls – for challenging discussions on topics often kept “off the table.” The premise of the dinners is to allow for an open conversation on a potentially contentious issue, such as politics, religion, and race. Barbara…
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Clark University to host panel discussion, ‘The financial crisis: five years later,’ on Feb. 6
Clark University will host “The Financial Crisis, Five Years Later: Progress or Paralysis?” at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, at Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St., Worcester. Professor Jacqueline Geoghegan, chair of the Department of Economics, will moderate the discussion. Panelists include several prominent Clark alumni: Paul Saltzman ’82, president of the Association, The…
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New Geller Jazz Concert Series set to open at Clark with legendary bassist Ron Carter, other greats
The Visual & Performing Arts Department at Clark University has received a generous gift from The Estate of Selma Geller, which establishes a biannual jazz concert series that will pair new and emerging artists with jazz legends and support audience development programming. The Geller family’s enthusiasm for jazz inspired their gift to Clark, which will support two…
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Top expert on climate change to speak at Clark University Feb. 4
Clark University will present a lecture by Harvard geologist and leading environmental science expert Daniel Schrag, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St. It will be followed by a public conversation with members of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future (see below). In his lecture titled, “The Anthropocene and Its…
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‘Embracing Failure’ theme of Higgins School spring dialogue symposium beginning Jan. 28
The Clark University Higgins School of Humanities will launch the Spring Dialogue Symposium, Embracing Failure, with a Community Conversation facilitated by Professor Eric DeMeulenaere (Education) at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons. “We live in a society that strives to measure our performance in every conceivable way,” writes DeMeulenaere. “Failure, we intimately know, can have very…
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Inaugural poet Richard Blanco packs the house (twice)
Richard Blanco smiled, gestured to the standing-room only crowd, and remarked that it was the first time he’d ever witnessed a “poetry stampede.” Indeed, the prospect of hearing Blanco, who was selected to read his original poem at President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration ceremony, reflect on his life and work, drew such an overwhelming crowd…
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Kwibuka20 Launch: Interview with Strassler Center’s Sara Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_djmxBFGJPQ&feature=youtu.be On 7 January 2014, Rwanda officially launched Kwibuka20, a series of events leading up to the twentieth commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi. The national commemoration will begin on 7 April 2014. In this interview at the launch of Kwibuka20, Sara Brown, the Stern Family Fellow and the first comparative genocide doctoral candidate at…
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CLARK magazine earns awards
The Clark University alumni magazine has received two awards in the annual Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District I Excellence Awards Contest. CLARK alumni magazine earned a gold award for best design, and a bronze for best writing for magazines with circulations of 25,000 and above. “We appreciate the recognition from our peers, and we are honored…
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Clark University scientist challenges government on carbon capture and storage subsidies
Jennie Stephens, associate professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University, has published an opinion piece recommending that the resources devoted to reducing carbon emissions be redirected to finding alternatives to fossil fuels. In the Dec. 20, 2013, piece, which was published in the prestigious international journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change and featured on the Post Carbon Institute’s site…