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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…
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…