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Water World

Blaize Denfeld ’10, M.S. ’11 Major: Environmental Science; M.S. in GIS Ph.D. student in limnology, Uppsala University, Sweden “The only consistency to my day is that I bike to and from work and have Fika (Swedish coffee break in the morning and afternoon); everything else in between changes depending on the day,” says Blaize Denfeld, who…
LEEP Provides a Solid Foundation

Champo Mapulanga ’12, an economics major from Zambia, talks about LEEP, Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a traditional liberal arts experience with authentic engagement in the world and workplace. This summer she will be an intern at the Institute of Economics and International Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Clark hosts guidance counselors for sessions on Emerging Adulthood, LEEP, college ‘investment’

They arrived on campus from Chicago and Los Angeles, St. Louis and Raleigh, Cincinnati and Minneapolis, New York and Boston. The schools they represented ran the gamut from elite private institutions to charter schools in struggling urban areas. Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country spent March 18 and 19 at Clark, meeting…
Clark ONE chapter recognized for its programming — and its passion

Clark University’s ONE Chapter may only include 20 students, but they’re an amazing and effective group of young organizers. As of this writing, Clark’s ONE Chapter is third on the leaderboard in the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC), a friendly national competition involving 3,000+ schools to determine which university’s student body has the most effective poverty-fighting…
Architect John Johansen recalls Goddard Library’s opening chapter

John M. Johansen considered the audience seated before him inside the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library’s Rare Book Room, and offered a humble assessment of the building he designed 43 years ago. “Architects think of their most recent work as being their best,” he said. “But they can come back to earlier work and they…
Spring break with a stay-cation twist: Students volunteer in their home adopted neighborhood

While many students spent their spring breaks in more traditional ways and in warmer climates, 26 Clark University undergraduates stayed on campus from March 7 to 11, setting out each day to volunteer with area agencies during the University’s first belief-inspired Interfaith Alternative Spring Break. Students worked with eight local non-profit organizations and contributed to…
Second Int’l Graduate Students’ Conference March 29- April 1; keynote on ‘War and Genocide’

The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Second International Graduate Students’ Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies on March 29 – April 1, presented in partnership with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students…
Clark named to 2012 President’s Honor Roll for community service

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has named Clark University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youths. Clark has appeared on the honor roll every year since its launch in 2006. The Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can…
Clark team places 11th of 210 at Harvard Model UN Conference

The Clark University Model UN team placed eleventh out of 210 competing colleges at the annual Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Conference, held in Boston on February 16-19. The Clark students also won an outstanding delegate award and three honorable mentions. Twenty-eight students from Clark participated in this prestigious event along with Yale University,…
MBA in Sustainability prepares leaders in vital evolving field

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Clark University now offers an MBA concentration in sustainability, an innovative program focusing on the critical business and management skills corporate leaders need to effect global change and be true stewards of the environment. Clark’s program couples the principles of environmental sustainability with the business strategies and fundamentals…