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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…
Backstage confidential

As it hits the 10-year mark, Clark’s International Gala remains a miracle of planning and execution. An insider delivers the low-down on how it’s done. It’s about 3 a.m. the morning of the show — earlier than I expected to be contemplating the prospect of sleep. Final dress rehearsal wrapped up around 2 a.m. Sound…
Leading entrepreneur to discuss failure and resiliency, March 16

Clark University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program will host successful Massachusetts entrepreneur Dean Cycon as the keynote speaker at an interactive event, “The World is Yours: Failure and Resiliency,” on Friday, March 16, in Clark University’s Dana Commons, second floor, from 4-7 p.m. Cycon will talk about the highs and lows of starting his business. Cycon…
Recycling Crew shares expertise with Woodland Academy students

Fifth grade students at Woodland Academy are thinking twice before throwing things away these days, thanks to the thoughtful guidance of a handful of Clark University students. When Rebecca Zilberstein ’12, a candidate for a Master of Arts in Teaching and student intern at the school, discovered the school didn’t have a recycling program in…