Biology
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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research For many Clark students, summer internships open doors to unexpected opportunities. For Caden Thomas ’27, that door was an internship in the mudflats of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Thomas, an environmental science and policy major with a minor in geography in the School of Climate, Environment,…
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‘I just love getting my hands in the dirt’
From Massachusetts to Australia, Beatrice Altopp ’25, M.S. ’26, wants to protect local species
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Could rising temps mean more infections?
Doctoral student Lauren Parry studies how humans may be able to fend off microscopic fungi
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Photo Essay: Biology students go frog hunting
Biology professor and mycologist Javier Tabima Restrepo and students in his lab study the genus Basidiobolus, and frequently visit local waterbodies to collect frogs for their research.
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Fungal armageddon
Why We’re Drawn to “The Last of Us” with Professors Betsy Huang, Ulm, and Javier Tabima Restrepo With season two of HBO Max’s “The Last of Us,” based on the acclaimed video game franchise created by Naughty Dog, hitting screens this month, we asked Clark University professors to unpack people’s fascination with post-apocalyptic stories and…
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After the end
Members of our faculty — from a fungus expert to teachers of dystopian film, games, and books — unravel the meaning and the madness behind our ongoing fascination with post-apocalyptic narratives and what the “Last of Us” teaches us about society, survival, systems, and self.
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Course examines humans’ tangled relationship with fungi and plants
In Plants, People, and Fungi, a new, advanced course focused on humans’ age-old relationships with flora and funga, Clark students encounter stories like those of The Iceman we now call Ötzi, and Fungus Man and the trickster Raven.
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Discovering a ‘magic’ mushroom was no trick
Researcher Alexander Bradshaw and team uncover a new fungi species
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From the lab to the gym, Devon Rose Leaver strives for peak performance
Biology student and avid rock climber plans her route to a Ph.D.
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‘Welcome to Clark. Let’s do some science’
Professor Don Spratt introduces local high school students to experiments in biochemistry