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LEEP Lessons from Clark’s EMS Squad

Ben Schaeffer ’15 describes his experience on Clark University’s EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Squad and how it’s helped him gain real-world skills. Learn more about LEEP.
April 2 plug-in event on campus aims to energize electric vehicle use

Electric vehicles are slowly but steadily gaining traction with consumers in New England, and drivers of EVs in Worcester will soon be “topping off” at charging stations at Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Quinsigamond Community College, and other sites set to be in service soon. The public is invited to join government and university officials,…
Living LEEP

Hannah Berry ’12 describes Clark’s new model of education, LEEP, and how it relates to her academic experience. Learn more about LEEP.
Caitlin Thayer’s Career has Sole

Caitlin Thayer ’07 Major: History Owner of Barefoot Media LLC, Hartford, Conn. Caitlin Thayer does not take her feet for granted, and with good reason. As a competitive runner, those feet carry her over hundreds of miles of New England roads each year, hitting the weather-worn, traffic-scarred pavement for races ranging in distance from 5K to…
Clark to celebrate 25th anniversary of ‘Earth Transformed,’ April 2

A quarter century ago, Clark University hosted a landmark international conference, “The Earth as Transformed by Human Action,” which highlighted international research tracing the effect of human activity on the global environment for the previous 300 years. Humanity continues to face fundamental questions explored at the conference about the fate of the biosphere and the capacity…
A step toward conservation: Livdahl receives $380,000 NIH grant for parasite dynamics research

Professor Todd Livdahl of Clark’s Department of Biology recently was awarded a three-year, $380,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research titled “Community diversity and parasite dynamics.” This award will support Livdahl’s research on “host dilution,” a hypothesized relationship between the success of a disease and the number of species that the disease…
Return on Education website illustrates value of a Clark degree

What is a college education worth? The question is both blunt and pervasive, and it’s at the forefront for many prospective students and their parents, who are weighing the value of a college diploma against the expense of earning it. Families are looking for schools that not only provide an excellent education, but will also…
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…