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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…
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Physics research in Kudrolli lab attracts major funding support
Despite a difficult environment for research funding around the nation in recent years, important work conducted in Clark University Professor Arshad Kudrolli’s physics laboratory has, in just recent months, attracted major research grants. Kudrolli, who is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor at the Department of Physics, and members of the Complex Matter and Nonlinear Physics Laboratory at Clark are…
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Claire Fialkov ’77, P ’06: Double Clark Couple
Psychologist Claire Fialkov talks about her specialty in family systems and gives her perspective on being a Clark parent. (She and her son met their spouses at Clark.) Learn more about Clark’s Return on Education.
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Christopher Brennan ’73: “What Clark gave me was a broad view”
Christopher Brennan ’73, a student athlete and Chinese history concentrator at Clark, describes his career path –from Dean of Business at Middlesex Community College (MCC) in Mass. to his current work as Executive Director of MCC’s affiliate The Career Place. Learn more about Clark’s Return on Education. Learn more about Clark’s Return on Education.
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Richard Treitman ’73: “The Key LEEP Skill is Synthesis”
Entrepreneur-in-residence at Adobe Systems, Richard Treitman ’73 describes how his Clark English degree was the foundation for his career. Being able to write secured jobs as a tech writer and marketing writer which led to positions in product development and, ultimately, creating his own businesses. Learn more about Clark’s Return on Education.
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Inaugural poet Richard Blanco to speak at Clark University Jan. 20
One year since he appeared at the podium during President Barack Obama’s inauguration, celebrated poet Richard Blanco will join the Clark University celebration of Martin Luther King Day, beginning at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street. In “Journey to the Podium,” Blanco will consider his remarkable journey as a gay Cuban-American…
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Clark University prof. publishes collection of essays about beauty
Beauty matters. It defines identity and causes controversy. A volume of essays about how beauty has done so over the course of the twentieth century—all across the world—has recently been released by Thomas Kuehne, Clark University professor of history and Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History, and Hartmut Berghoff, director of the German Historical Institute (GHI) in…