Stories

  • Tell Me How It Begins, and Ends

    Tell Me How It Begins, and Ends

    Storytelling lies at the heart of what makes us human, from primitive etchings on cave walls to tales of astronauts leaving footprints on the moon. It’s the thread running through the arts and humanities, according to Professor TERRASA ULM, director of the undergraduate program in interactive media in Clark’s Becker School of Design & Technology.…

  • A Legacy in Bloom

    A Legacy in Bloom

    The Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities boasts a rich history and prepares for a robust future

  • Narratives of Nature

    Narratives of Nature

    When STEPHEN LEVIN, associate professor of English, first offered Ecofictions: Literature and the Environment in fall 2023, the undergraduate course filled up quickly with highly engaged students. “It was one of the most exciting teaching experiences I’ve had in my career,” he says. As the world witnessed the damaging effects of climate change that year,…

  • The Fourth Is with Him

    The Fourth Is with Him

    Musicologist Benjamin Korstvedt ’87 has recovered the legacy of composer Anton Bruckner by helping reclaim his “lost” symphony

  • iShakespeare

    iShakespeare

    Why do the Bard’s works resonate in our modern age? Maybe because people still seek love. Go to war. Hunger for power. Have midsummer night’s dreams …

  • Biology professor Clifton Hodge led 1911 fight against flies in Worcester

    Adapted from “Clark University: A Narrative History, 1887–1987,” by William Koelsch (Clark University Press, 1987). Clifton F. Hodge, a young University of Wisconsin neurologist who had earlier been a fellow in psychology at Clark University, joined the Clark biology faculty in the 1890s. When the college was established, Hodge taught in that also, and proved…

  • New integrations with IBM Watson, Mendix enhance MSIT concentrations

    New integrations with IBM Watson, Mendix enhance MSIT concentrations

    The Clark University School of Professional Studies has integrated IBM Watson and Mendix platforms into the M.S. in Information Technology (MSIT) program. Students in MSIT generative AI and product development concentrations will now have hands-on access to these cutting-edge technologies, better preparing them to lead in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. IBM Watson, known for…

  • What it takes to make a video game

    What it takes to make a video game

    MFA student-led project gamifies the work of H.P. Lovecraft

  • Choreographing the fun in math

    Choreographing the fun in math

    Raeanna Deloge ’25 fuses study of mathematics and dance

  • A taste of cuisine and culture in Greece, shaped by migrants

    A taste of cuisine and culture in Greece, shaped by migrants

    In Thessaloniki, students explore ‘relationship between migration, food, and belonging’