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  • Fungal armageddon

    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…

  • After the end

    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.

  • Course examines humans’ tangled relationship with fungi and plants

    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.

  • Discovering a ‘magic’ mushroom was no trick

    Discovering a ‘magic’ mushroom was no trick

    Researcher Alexander Bradshaw and team uncover a new fungi species

  • From the lab to the gym, Devon Rose Leaver strives for peak performance

    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.

  • ‘Welcome to Clark. Let’s do some science’

    ‘Welcome to Clark. Let’s do some science’

    Professor Don Spratt introduces local high school students to experiments in biochemistry

  • It’s EPIC: Clark opens new greenhouse to help U.S. agriculture, environment

    It’s EPIC: Clark opens new greenhouse to help U.S. agriculture, environment

    Space to enable research on food security, conservation, climate change-related efforts

  • ‘Ants are more complicated than people think’

    ‘Ants are more complicated than people think’

    Clark biologists find mystery and majesty in a common insect

  • How can healthy soil and plants improve food security?

    How can healthy soil and plants improve food security?

    EPIC greenhouse houses biologist Chandra Jack’s critical food-sustainability research

  • Biology ready for EPIC ribbon-cutting

    Biology ready for EPIC ribbon-cutting

    New greenhouse expands research opportunities in climate change, sustainability

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