Stories
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New global partnership gives Clark management students an edge
Clark University Graduate School of Management students focusing on alternative investments will now have an edge over graduates from any other business school in the country, thanks to a new partnership with the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, professionalism, and ethics. GSOM is the first business school…
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Greening the Fleet
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jackalyne Pfannenstiel ’69 sails into uncharted energy waters.
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Clark ‘scientist-mother’ Stephens urges action against air pollution
What does Clark University Assistant Professor Jennie Stephens have in common with Oscar-nominated actress Natalie Portman? Stephens, along with five other “scientist mothers,” has joined the actress in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the strongest possible standards in limiting mercury and other toxic air pollution. With Environment America and the Union of Concerned…
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‘We haven’t finished the revolution,’ Brazile tells capacity audience
Donna Brazile looked out over the audience in Razzo Hall last Thursday and, after offering her opinion of the frigid weather (she’s not a fan), she established an immediate connection with Clark. Brazile noted that the year Clark University was founded, 1887, is the same year her grandmother, the daughter of former slaves, was born…
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Ph.D. student completes Antarctic research; passes Clark Mountains
Unfazed by the East Coast’s record snowfall, Clark University Ph.D. student Luke D. Trusel recently returned from a six-week research expedition based out of a large ice core drilling site on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS Divide) from where he traveled to remote field camps. Trusel arrived at the U.S. McMurdo Station on Dec.…
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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…