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Internat’l Center to host delegation from Egypt for internship program

The International Center of Worcester (ICW) will host a delegation of three young community leaders from Egypt, from March 24 to April 23. Their travel was delayed by the popular uprising in their country, but finally they are able to visit the United States. The delegation includes a human rights lawyer, the director of a community…
Strassler Center event casts new light on iconic Vishniac photos

Sometime in 2012, the International Center of Photography in New York will unveil an exhibit of photographs by Roman Vishniac, a world famous photographer whose prolific published works became iconic images of Jewish shtetl life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. But the discovery of a vast trove of previously unpublished photographs has revealed more…
Clark mourns death of former president Richard P. Traina

Two days after it opened in 1997, the University Park Campus School played host to state dignitaries including Governor Paul Cellucci. Called upon to speak, Clark President Richard P. Traina called the school’s first students forward to the podium with him, positioning the seventh graders in front of the politicians. Donna Rodrigues, who was the principal at the time, remembers the moment well. “He would step right in front with…
Medic of the mind

From Iraq to Afghanistan to U.S. veterans' clinics, psychologist Major Clifford Trott '87 heals the hidden wounds of war
IDCE celebrates 10 years of global impact

The year was 1967 and Richard Ford was doing what he loved best: studying the vibrant cultures, social rhythms and political nuances of Africa. As visiting professor at the University of Natal, he’d traveled to South Africa with his wife Nancy to continue his research when he received an unexpected letter in the mail. It…
Clark, Woodland Academy students publish ‘Aventuras (Adventures)’

Seven Clark University students and 20 third- and fourth-graders at Woodland Academy in Main South published a bilingual paperback storybook this fall, “Aventuras (Adventures).” Last semester, Clark students from visiting professor Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi’s Spanish 127 class met weekly with teachers Danielle Ballon and Lillian Rentas and their students at Woodland Academy to write and illustrate…
Finding Mr. Wu

Nearly forty years after adopting his daughter, Professor Paul Ropp set out to locate her birth father in Taiwan. There, he uncovered a tale of sorrow, hope, and joy.
Diana Levine’s New York photography career is a name-dropper’s dream

Imagine you’re a recent college graduate living in one of the greatest cities in the world. Your job is to take fabulous photos of big-time celebrities while you travel to exciting places, honing skills that are lighting the career path you chose when you were still in school. It might seem like a sweet fantasy,…
IDCE celebrates the first 10 years

On March 30 and 31, the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) will celebrate its first ten years as a formal department, inviting the Clark community to a keynote address and symposium. IDCE students are immersed in studies of grass roots initiatives, social movements, government policy, market approaches, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, individual action…
Faculty panel Mar. 2 to discuss events under way in Middle East

Clark University will present “Popular Protests, New Media, & Change in the Middle East” a panel on the events unfolding in the Middle East, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2, in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street. The six featured panelists include: Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian…