Stories
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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…
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IDCE names Environment and Sustainable Development fellows
With funds from the Compton Foundation, Clark’s International Development, Community and Environment department continues to support Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) Fellowships for master’s level graduate students whose studies focus on cross-cutting themes and issues related to the environment and sustainable development. ESD Fellowships are designed support early to mid-career professionals from sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico, and Central…
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Rounder Records founder celebrates a life in music
Marian Leighton Levy’70 wandered the country in pursuit of the heart and soul of Americana music, a never-intended-to-make-a-living, seat-of-the-pants operation that led to big 2009 Grammy wins for her independent record label, Rounder Records. Last October, Levy was at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville for Rounders’ 40th anniversary concert that was filmed for broadcast…
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Clark in new Princeton Review ‘guide to 286 green colleges’
Clark is featured in the “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges,” a new, comprehensive guidebook that recognizes the impressive environmental and sustainability programs at universities and colleges across the country. The Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), released the guide, which features the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges,…