Stories
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Clark senior Lembitz is at the heart of Occupy Wall Street movement
Each night, Breanna “Bre” Lembitz ’12 sleeps on a mat in New York’s Zuccotti Park, covered only by a tarp. She can’t imagine sleeping anywhere else. The political science and economics major has assumed a central role in the Occupy Wall Street movement, working 16- to 20-hour days to ensure that each financial contribution to…
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Lecture, conference to examine, compare post-genocide reparation
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University is sponsoring an interdisciplinary conference, “Beyond the Armenian Genocide: The Question of Restitution and Reparation in Comparative Review,” opening at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 27, with a public keynote address in Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street. Scholar and author John Torpey will present…
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NSF awards $270K to support research on global markets, R&D
Professor Yuko Aoyama of Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography has received an award from the National Science Foundation for her research, The Global Shift in R&D Alliances: MNEs & the Quest for the BOP markets. The award comprises $269,999 over three years. The research will examine how multinational enterprises (MNEs) are devising new ways to access market…
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Environmental scientist garners NSF grant for Smart Grid research
Jennie Stephens, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (Science, Technology and Society Program) grant of $166,750 for her research on “Smart Grid: An Analysis of How Socio-Political Contexts Shape Energy Technology Development and Policy.” This award is part of a collaboration…
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Clark senior wins gold and bronze medals in Redistricting Olympics
Clark University senior Nicholas Rossi, of North Smithfield, RI, won a gold medal in the Redistricting Olympics, a contest sponsored by Common Cause Massachusetts that asked citizens to create their own redistricting maps. Rossi’s work won gold in the Congressional Map category and also landed a bronze medal in the House Map contest. The 58 maps that…
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A Man of Impact
Watch a tribute to Richard Traina. Richard Traina arrived on campus in 1984 prepared to make changes. Today, his tenure is seen as a transformative time in the University’s history, and in the neighborhood that Clark calls home. Memories, even recent ones, often enough exist on the far side of hazy vistas and in the echoes of…
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Make ’em Laugh
Wendi Trilling’s rise from temp to executive vice president of comedy at CBS is the stuff of… well …TV Wendi Trilling ’86 knows something about long shots. As the executive vice president of comedy development at CBS, she is pitched 400 sitcom ideas every year, and of those perhaps two will ever make it to…
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Clark alumnus to give Harrington Public Affairs Lecture on elections and informed citizenry, Oct. 24
Professor John Coleman, a Clark University alumnus and leading expert on political parties, elections and campaign finance in the U.S., will deliver the Fall 2011 Harrington Public Affairs Lecture, “A Primer on the Primaries: Polarized Politics and Presidential Nominations,” at 7 p.m, Monday, Oct. 24, in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street. Coleman is…
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Drapos lecturer offers insider’s view of health care, advocates for ‘evidence-based medicine’
Jessie Gruman bills herself as a “double insider” when it comes to health care. As founder and president of the Washington-based Center for Advancing Health, she is intensely involved with researching and advocating for policies for the delivery of effective medical treatment. And as someone who has endured four separate cancer diagnoses, Gruman possesses intimate knowledge…
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Lund Award recipients honored for efforts in community engagement
Clark University President David Angel presented the 2011 John W. Lund Community Achievement Award to Greg Doerschler, senior analyst in Clark’s Office of Institutional Research and adviser to the Outing Club, and to fifth-year student Andre Kenstowicz. Doerschler and Kenstowicz were honored at a September 20 recognition dinner at Harrington House, the residence of Clark’s…