Stories
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Ready for a sweet start on Main Street
Salvadoran American bakery opening at Acoustic Java location
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Crisis Mode
From Sandy Hook to the Boston Marathon to Uvalde, Clark psychologist Wendy Grolnick treats the hidden wounds of tragedy
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Perspectives behind the wall
Clark professor leads debate, discourse in prison classroom
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Belonging Talks will examine refugee integration through a wider lens
Gaisu Yari fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan as a teenager, coming to the United States as a refugee. She was initially resettled in Worcester, and part of her integration included English language classes at the American Language and Culture Institute at Clark University. Today, Yari is director of Afghan Voices of Hope,…
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A leap back into Clark history
Who remembers the Clark kangaroo? We don’t, either. But the scarlet-and-white marsupial, complete with a baby in its pouch and adorned with the letters CU, seems to have been a presence on the Clark campus in the late 1940s. The stuffed kangaroo has made it back to Clark as part of the disposition of…
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Clarkies get charged up by a high-Voltage opportunity
Students and business owner share marketing and entrepreneurial talents
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‘Approach the world with an open mind’
Professor Juan Pablo Rivera’s books of poetry and essays earn awards
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Food as a tool for transformative change
Anti-hunger work leads alum to prepare brief for White House
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Marsh Institute lectures illuminate urgent challenges with human-environment impacts
This week marks the start of the Spring 2023 Seminar Series sponsored by the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library. Over the course of the semester, session topics will range from reducing HIV transmission in Zimbabwe to ensuring climate change adaptation success. Established in 1990, the George Perkins Marsh Institute…
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Margaret Morse Nice: Animal Behavior
The following is excerpted from “Changing the World: Clark University’s Pioneering People, 1887–2000” (Chandler House Press, 2005), by former president Richard P. Traina. Long before she became a graduate student at Clark University, Margaret Morse Nice found her destiny. When she was only nine years old, she was taking notes on wild birds. Yet, it…