Stories
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Repopulating Worcester’s Trees
Maggie Small ’10 talks about her work with the Worcester Tree Initiative, which is taking steps to repopulate local trees destroyed by the Asian Longhorned Beetle.
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Clark’s 105th Commencement: Grads urged to see with new eyes
Clark University celebrated its 105th Commencement on Sunday, May 23. Degrees were granted to 967 Clark graduates: 522 baccalaureate, 413 masters, and 32 doctoral. Richard F. Celeste, president of Colorado College, delivered the Commencement address, asking graduates to see with new eyes. In his address to the graduates, Celeste recalled a legally blind fellow Peace Corps volunteer, who had expressed to him that her experience, although difficult, had given her the “gift of new…
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Clark Guggenheim Fellow explores societies ‘struggling for beauty’
Thomas Kuehne, Clark University Professor of History and Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History, was recently awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in support of his proposed book-length essay, “Struggling for Beauty.” “Struggling for Beauty” will focus on the rise of “beauty” in modern world societies since the 18th-century Enlightenment,…
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Students take part in Campus Challenge, finish in top 10
A Clark University student team made it into the top ten among groups from more than 3,000 colleges and universities to take part in this year’s ONE Campus Challenge, a friendly competition to determine which university’s student body has the most effective poverty-fighting campaign. Siobhan Kelley ’12, a member of the team, explained that earned…
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President Bassett’s honorary degree makes history at WPI graduation
There will be more than the usual pomp and circumstance this graduation season for Clark University President Bassett, who received an honorary doctorate degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 142nd commencement exercises on May 15. The occasion marked the first-ever Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters bestowed in WPI’s history, conferred upon President Bassett “for his distinguished record of academic leadership and for the inspiring example he has set for all those who…
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Steinbrecher Fellows embark on summer creative projects
Seven Clark undergraduate students were recently named Steinbrecher Fellows; all will undertake projects this summer and during the 2010-2011 academic year. The Steinbrecher Fellowship Program was established in 2006 to encourage and support Clark undergraduates’ pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects. The new Steinbrecher Fellows and their projects are: Students will…
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‘Namaste!’ Clark IDCE assists Bhutanese refugees in N.H.
Most people living in Concord, N.H. knew nothing about the events unfolding in the basement of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on a chilly Friday night in March. But it was here that their newest neighbors, refugees from Bhutan, were announcing their presence in a big way. There was dancing, much of it executed…
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$14.2M gift endows Adam Education Fund at Clark
Clark University President John Bassett today (April 29) announced the establishment of the Ruth and John Adam Education Fund, a gift of more than $14.2 million made to enhance Clark’s nationally recognized model for urban secondary education and reform, teacher-training and community education partnerships. The fund, resulting from the largest single gift in Clark history,…
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Barry Lazar’s Reel-Life Career
Barry Lazar loves telling a good story. There’s the one about the panhandlers who patrol the sidewalk outside Schwartz’s Deli in Montreal, working the door in scheduled shifts and making good money off the satisfied customers with bellies full of smoked meat and pockets jingling with change. And the one about the dying New Hampshire…
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Professor Laurie Ross wins YWCA’s Erskine Award for Education
Clark Professor Laurie Ross has been awarded the The Katharine F. Erskine Award by the YWCA. This award recognizes women who have demonstrated leadership and reached exemplary levels of achievement in their professions and communities. Professor Ross is the recipient of the Erskine Award for Education. Ross, an Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning…