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‘Mining can undermine development efforts,’ Clark U. expert warns Canada lawmakers

Anthony Bebbington, Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Graduate School of Geography, recently traveled to Ottawa to serve as an invited witness before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on “The Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Canada’s International Development Interests.” The other witness was Brent Bergeron, vice…
Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

There was a time when food was something you ate but rarely pondered. You did not know, or care, where your dinner came from, or how it would interact with your body once it was consumed. That was then. Sure, many folks still eat with abandon, but many others, like the Clarkies profiled on these…
Young Clark alumni who are shaking up the world

Mary Badon surgically mends broken bones. Sara Brown is helping mend a broken country. Jay Shapiro’s new film chronicles Uganda’s first Little League team. Scott Silver’s new film aims for major-league thrills. Caitlyn Thayer teaches business owners how to be social-media savvy. Gunnar Hagstrom teaches kids separated by conflict how to be savvy about each other.…
Clark’s founder and its first president were higher education’s odd couple

Despite the competing visions of Jonas Clark and G. Stanley Hall, a world-class university was born
Clark Prof. Jeffrey Arnett speaks about Emerging Adulthood

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, professor of psychology, spoke to guidance counselors about his research into Emerging Adulthood at a March event at Clark University . Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country met with admissions staff, selected faculty and President David Angel to learn about the University and engage in dialogue about how the…
Clark President David Angel discusses LEEP

President David Angel Clark discusses how a Clark education prepares students for life, career and citizenship. Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country spent March 18 and 19 at Clark to learn about the University and engage in dialogue about how the needs of young adults will be met by higher education. Read more…
Akçam book reveals ‘The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity’

Drawing on unprecedented access to greatly extended and once secret documents from the Ottoman archives of 1913 onward, Taner Akçam, associate professor at Clark University has written a timely new book, “The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire” (Princeton University Press 2012), which covers factors that…
Mortimer Appley, Clark’s sixth president, passes away at 90

Mortimer H. Appley, the sixth president of Clark University, died Thursday, March 29, at the age of 90. Appley was inaugurated as Clark president on July 1, 1974, and served for 10 years. “The Clark community is saddened to learn of the death of Mort Appley, an accomplished academician, who also provided a firm hand…
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center at Clark wins Service Excellence award

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center office located at Clark University has been named the winner of the 2012 Service Excellence award, according to an announcement by Robert Nelson, Massachusetts U.S. Small Business Administration District Director. The Service Excellence award is presented annually to recognize particular MSBDCs for excellence and innovation in providing training and…
Advisory Committee expected to play key role in shaping LEEP

As deputy chief of staff for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, T.F. Scott Darling ’84 works for an organization that knows a thing about getting people from one place to another. So it seems appropriate that as he talks about Clark’s pioneering model for higher education, LEEP™ (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Darling uses the…