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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…
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Int’l Students Association to make Clark ‘a world gone gala’ April 9
The International Students Association (ISA), a student initiative at Clark University, will showcase a rich variety of cultural entertainment, fashion, and cuisine during the annual International Gala, beginning at 7 p.m., Friday, April 9, in the Kneller Athletic Center. * Don’t miss this year’s “… a world gone gala” preview (click Videos) at ISA online. Held each spring, the International Gala is…
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Workshop Considers State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research
Experts, Scholars to Hold Ground-breaking Workshop; Public Invited to April 9 Program on ‘Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later’
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Life-saving Clark EMS squad receives Red Cross Heroes honor
When seconds mattered and a life depended on cool heads and capable hands, five members of the Clark Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a student emergency response team at Clark University, met a rare challenge and saved a life. The Clark EMS squad members were honored as American Red Cross Heroes at the eighth annual American Red Cross…
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Granville-Abbas school in Sudan dedicated to slain Clark alumnus
A new school for young women was dedicated recently in southeastern Sudan and it bears the name of two individuals, one a Clark University alumnus, who were shot and killed by Sudanese gunmen in Khartoum in 2008. The Granville-Abbas Girls’ Secondary School was dedicated on International Women’s Day, March 8, in the town of…
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Goddard launches space age with historic first on this day in 1926
From Mass Moments: “On this day [March 16] in 1926, Clark University physics professor Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid fuel rocket — and with it the space age. Standing in a snow-covered field in Auburn, Massachusetts, he watched as the rocket he had built rose 41 feet into the air, flew for two…
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Bland-Lee history lectures to focus on Cold War, hot topics
Historian Marilyn Young will deliver this year’s Bland-Lee lectures, “Necessary Wars of Choice: Counterinsurgency and the American Way of War” and “Korea: Turning up the Heat on the Cold War,”respectively at Clark University on Wednesday, March 17, and Thursday, March 18, at 4 p.m. in the Grace Conference Room of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main…
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Prof. Stephens meets lawmakers for Concerned Scientists’ call to action
Leading scientists in D.C. to urge legislation on global warming issues
