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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,…
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Academic Commons project receives planning award
Clark’s Academic Commons at Goddard Library has received an award in the “Building Additions Category” from the the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). The Academic Commons at Goddard Library was designed by Steven M. Foote, of Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects, Boston, and built by Consigli Construction Co., Inc., of Milford. SCUP awards are highly competitive; 171 projects were submitted for…
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Former Ohio governor, diplomat Celeste to speak at Commencement
Clark will hold its 105th Commencement on Sunday, May 23, on the Jefferson Academic Center Green. The procession, from the Kneller Athletic Center to the Campus Green, begins at 1:15 p.m., and ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. Richard F. Celeste, president of Colorado College, will deliver the Commencement address. For further information about the ceremony and speakers, and…
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GIS innovator Eastman receives Distinguished Career Award
Clark University professor of geography J. Ronald Eastman, developer of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software, was presented with the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of American Geographers Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISSG), during the 2010 Annual AAG Meeting (April 14-18) in Washington, D.C. The Distinguished Career Award honors senior scholars…
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Steinbrecher fellow’s Nez Perce exhibit opens at Strassler Center
Last summer, Clark University senior Mikal Brotnov used the funding he received from the Steinbrecher Fellowship Program to travel to Seattle, Washington and Kamiah, Idaho, to research the Nez Perce Nation and to photographically document the rituals of the Nimiipuu (as the Nez Perce call themselves). Brotnov, who grew up on the Nez Perce reservation, has put…
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Students’ Thrift Store plan wins annual Big Idea innovation contest
Clark University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) program recently announced the winners of this year’s U-Reka: The Big Idea Contest. The winning student-sponsored ideas: a campus thrift store, improved garden facilities, and a new radio program, were chosen in an online student vote as having the greatest potential to positively affect life in the Clark community. The contest,…
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Strassler Center offers access to Shoah Foundation visual archives
Clark University among 25 institutions worldwide linked to 52,000 Holocaust testimonies
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Clark students work for disabled during spring trip to Brazil
Twelve Clark University undergraduate and graduate students, and one Clark alumnus, returned from another successful International Field Experience with staff from Seven Hills Global Outreach over Spring Break 2010. The group spent 10 days in São Paulo, Brazil, exploring the concept of Social Entrepreneurship through the guidance of Clark Graduate School of Management Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence David Jordan. On this trip, social entrepreneurship was experienced through the veil of the United…