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Carnegie Foundation recognizes Clark community engagement
Clark University has been awarded the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2010 Community Engagement Classification. The University is one of 115 schools to most recently earn this designation, which acknowledges Clark’s “significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement, improved teaching and learning and generation of socially responsive knowledge to benefit communities.” “This…
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Clark English professor celebrates master’s candidates’ success
Clark University English Professor SunHee Kim Gertz used a different approach last fall when she taught her Introduction to Graduate Studies seminar, adding a requirement that paved the way for her students to achieve on a level usually reserved for Ph.D. candidates. Professor Gertz added to her seminar a new emphasis on the professional aspects…
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Professors author ‘essential’ economic geography text
Clark University School of Geography professors Yuko Aoyama, James T. Murphy and Susan Hanson have authored a new textbook, “Key Concepts in Economic Geography,” published by Sage Publications. Written by internationally recognized geographers, the book is recommended as an essential addition to any geography student’s library. “This book covers the breadth of economic geography from…
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Clark on the Volga: Graduate program creates Russian masters
The students receiving their diplomas at the commencement exercise on Nov. 13, 2010, had worked hard for the honor. They attended classes, read stacks of texts, performed research and studied countless hours. Now they possessed the thing they had been working toward: a master’s degree from Clark University. And they’d earned it in Russia. The students were enrolled in the graduate program operated by Clark’s…
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Richard Golub Makes His Case
Sometimes you google a name and wind up disappointed that the person doesn’t live up to his advance billing. That’s not the case with Aaron Richard Golub ’64. Golub is a high-powered Manhattan attorney who has represented Donald Trump, sued Martin Scorsese, and counted the colorful denizens of Andy Warhol’s “Factory” among his clients. He…
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Senior will hone advocacy skills as U.N. Women’s Conference delegate
Clark University senior Heather A. Mooney, of Waltham, will gain experience in the art of advocacy as a delegate to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings to be held from Feb. 22 to March 4 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. She is one of only 23 women students…
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War against AIDS at a crossroad; status quo won’t do, panelists say
Experts in the long battle against HIV/AIDS gathered in Tilton Hall on Jan. 19 to offer hope that the world now stands at the midpoint of the disease’s global march, with better days ahead. The speakers were on hand to discuss the findings of the aids2031 consortium, published in the new book “AIDS: Taking a…
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Clark earns spot in Peace Corps’ Top Colleges rankings
Clark University ranks No. 18 on the Peace Corps 2011 rankings of colleges and universities in the small size category. There are currently seventeen (17) undergraduate alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers. This is the second time that Clark University has made the national rankings; the first time was in 2007. Clark alumni are currently serving as volunteers…
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Top political strategist Donna Brazile to speak at Clark Feb. 10
Clark University will present “The Shifting American Political Landscape,” a lecture by veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, at Razzo Hall, at the Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University; an author; syndicated columnist; and an on-air contributor to CNN,…
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Poli-sci Harrington Fellows enjoy ‘insider’ views in D.C. program
Undergraduate political science majors Sonya Grabowski ’11, Matt Diamond ’12, and Amelia Najjar ’12 were awarded Harrington Public Affairs Fellowships to attend special academic seminars in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. Sponsored by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, the two-week long program combines lectures by faculty and guest speakers, small group discussions, site visits to organizations…