Stories
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‘My goal right now: for the next generation to have a world at all’
Renowned physicist will present Presidential Lecture on Oct. 5
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Clark receives $5 million workforce training grant from the U.S. Department of Labor
Grant establishes collaborative partnership to support workers in renewable energy, transportation and broadband infrastructure sectors
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Cookbooks and queer theory
Analyzing how modernist writers use food as a metaphor
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‘People will recognize you for your talent’
Animator, entrepreneur, educator Gary Goldberger ’96 promotes relentless creativity
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Clark University doesn’t have a football team. Why?
Clark University students have an opportunity to play on 17 different athletic teams, from tennis to rowing, basketball to lacrosse. But one sport is conspicuously absent — football. With the popularity of the sport on campuses around the country, why is that the case? It goes back to Carroll D. Wright, the first president…
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‘Talent is equally distributed. Opportunity is not’
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center CEO encourages students to find mentors
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1942–46: Clark offers nursing education
Did you know that, in the mid-20th century, Clark University was engaged in teaching future nurses and nursing educators? Read on to learn more in an excerpt from “Clark University, 1887–1987: A Narrative History,” by William Koelsch, Clark professor emeritus and former University archivist. In 1942, at the request of Worcester medical professionals, Clark had…
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Marsh Institute lectures will examine aspects of climate crisis
The fall 2023 seminar series sponsored by the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library continues this week. Over the course of the semester, session topics will examine the global climate crisis from various angles. Established in 1990, the George Perkins Marsh Institute — named for the 19th-century conservationist who kept records of how humans…
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Sex and death. A love story.
Evolutionary biologist Erin McCullough studies the mating rituals of dung beetles to understand how climate change might affect biodiversity
