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Prof. wins Fulbright Canada award to study possible cancer links
Liza Grandia, Assistant Professor at Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) Department, has been granted a Fulbright Canada award to conduct research at McGill University. Grandia will focus on Dow Chemical’s NAFTA challenge of Canada’s ban of the herbicide 2,4-D, due to its alleged links to cancer causation. Professor Grandia will join McGill’s Institute for…
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Clark announces endowed chairs
Clark University Provost Davis Baird has announced the appointment of the next holders of four endowed chairs. Arshad Kudrolli has been appointed to a three-year term as the new Jan and Larry Landry University Professor. Established in 1997, the Landry University Professorship is made possible by a generous gift from Larry Landry ’71, M.B.A. ’75, and…
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More than 1,000 expected at int’l summit on conflict-free minerals
More than 1,000 people from around the globe will travel to Clark University on September 24th to participate in an international summit on Informed Activism: Scarce Resources, Armed Conflict and Congo. Convened by the University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, in partnership with Los Angeles based Jewish World Watch, the summit will shine a bright light on…
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Mayor Wong to speak on education, Chinese heritage issues Sept. 28
Fitchburg Mayor Lisa A. Wong (黃素芬), Massachusetts’ first female mayor of Chinese heritage and so far the United States’ second youngest Chinese-heritage mayor, will speak at Clark University about education and Chinese heritage issues, at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, in the Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St. The event, which coincidentally will take place…
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The Write Stuff: Robert Goddard biography was the first book on the moon
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin carried credit card-sized volume during 1969 moon landing
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Clark celebrates 25 years of the Higgins School of Humanities
♦ Fall Symposium to focus on ‘Why We Educate’ ♦ This fall, Clark University’s Higgins School of Humanities will celebrate 25 years since its founding by Alice Coonley Higgins. Since 1986, the Higgins School as provided a wealth of support through grants for humanities faculty research, sponsored innovative interdisciplinary seminars, and convened innumerable public programs, conferences,…
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Clark in top 40 ‘Great Schools, Great Prices’ in U.S. News ‘Best’ list
Clark University’s academic caliber and financial value has helped it climb up ten spots from last year to earn a No. 31 ranking in the “Great Schools, Great Prices” category of the 2012 edition of America’s Best Colleges released by the U.S News Media Group. “We think it is especially noteworthy that Clark was recognized as one…
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Candles in September
My mother’s birthday is Sept. 11 and I was across the street at the pharmacy buying her a belated birthday card when I heard that American Airlines Flight 11 had crashed into the World Trade Center. I returned to my dorm, Sanford Hall, and went down to one of the common suites on my floor…
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AG Martha Coakley advises constitutional vigilance
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley urged a Clark audience to keep close watch on the debates surrounding the constitutionality of several major issues, paying particular heed to how those issues will be decided legally and how those decisions will reverberate in the public. Coakley delivered a lunchtime Constitution Day address before a crowd of more…
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Renowned health care author to deliver Drapos Lecture
Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., nationally known health care author and expert on patient engagement, will deliver the Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture, “That’s Not What I Wanted to Hear!: Evidence-Based Medicine and our Hard Choices,” at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Razzo Hall. The Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture Series is a program of free, public lectures concerning law,…