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Students, dignitaries, neighbors celebrate planting of ‘Traina Tree’
The Worcester Tree Initiative is planting thousands of trees across the city to reclaim the urban forest decimated by the Asian long-horned beetle and the 2008 ice storm, but one white oak taking root in Main South holds special significance for the Clark University community. On April 29, Arbor Day, Congressman James McGovern, state Rep.…
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Nearly Naked Mile collects winter clothing for those in need
Runners finish the Nearly Naked Mile on Oct. 27, 2010. The came. They saw. They disrobed. On Oct. 27, 2010, the Student Alumni Relations Committee sponsored a one-mile run through campus, “The Nearly Naked Mile,” a coat drive benefit event. As their “entry fee,” participants donated new or gently used coats and winter outerwear that were…
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Student presenters shine at 10th annual Shakespeare conference
Undergraduates from eleven colleges and universities across New England represented Shakespeare through scholarship and performance as they participated in the Tenth Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference hosted at Clark University, on April 16. The conference offers a prestigious showcase for student research in the humanities, and this year’s participants on the theme “Representing Shakespeare” presented one of the…
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Campus community’s going all out for ‘Go Green’ sustainability festival
The Clark University community will throw a belated Earth Day party beginning at noon, Sunday, May 1, with “Go Green on the Green,” a sustainability festival featuring music, games and several memorable and educational visual displays all meant to help Sustainable Clark celebrate existing programs and to grow an even greener campus community. Sponsored by the Clark…
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Commencement speaker Khazei combines leadership, service
Clark University will hold its 106th Commencement on Sunday, May 22, on the Jefferson Academic Center Green. The procession, from the Kneller Athletic Center to the Campus Green, begins at 1:15 p.m., and ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. The Commencement speaker will be Alan Khazei, the founder and chief executive officer of Be the Change Inc., a Boston-based group…
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Smithsonian awards Eldredge Prize to author, art historian Wilson
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson, Clark University associate professor of art history, for her book “The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934” (Yale University Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “new and excellent interpretation of…
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Clark featured in Princeton Review guide to outstanding ‘green colleges’
The Princeton Review has recognized Clark University as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, including Clark in the just-released, second annual edition of the “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition.” Clark University joins the ranks of outstanding universities and colleges nationwide that are leading the “green”…
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Clark senior helps to lead interfaith community, service and dialogue
Last month, the White House launched the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, an initiative inviting institutions of higher education to commit to a year of interfaith cooperation and community service programming on campus. President Obama called the initiative an important way to build understanding between different communities and contribute to the common good. He…
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Happily ever after? Alumna’s new film explores stories of singlehood
Who doesn’t enjoy a fairy tale ending? Beautiful princess, handsome prince, a white horse, and a lifetime spent in a castle surrounded by a moat … or at least a picket fence. Ah, but that’s the stuff of Disney. Reality is a far messier proposition, where people forge lives that follow no script, and women…
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‘A special discipline’: Clark geographers feted in Washington
The setting was as appropriate as a setting could be. The National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. was the site of a March 15 reception honoring five distinguished geographers with Clark ties who are members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Clark boasts more NAS members in the area of geography than any comparable…