Clarkives

  • Clark Recycling Center: Wit happens

      If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then the Clark Recycling Center was the University’s Fort Knox. Located in a once-stately home at 5 Hawthorne St., the center opened in the early 1990s and became the halfway house for literally tons of stuff waiting to be repurposed. As a hand-scrawled sign hanging on…

  • ‘We’re all soldiers now’

    ‘We’re all soldiers now’

    The Scarlet reacts to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Alice Higgins made a significant mark on Clark University

    Alice Higgins made a significant mark on Clark University

    The name Higgins crops up in several places around Clark, including on a plaque next to Carlson Hall, on the Higgins School of Humanities, and Higgins University Center. In all cases, they honor Alice Coonley Higgins (1909–2000), who, with her husband, Milton Higgins, made a significant mark, not just on Clark, but on Worcester as…

  • Nearly Naked Mile collects winter clothing for those in need

    Nearly Naked Mile collects winter clothing for those in need

    Runners finish the Nearly Naked Mile on Oct. 27, 2010. The came. They saw. They disrobed. On Oct. 27, 2010, the Student Alumni Relations Committee sponsored a one-mile run through campus, “The Nearly Naked Mile,” a coat drive benefit event. As their “entry fee,” participants donated new or gently used coats and winter outerwear that were…

  • Floyd Ramsdell: The ‘Goddard of 3D’

    Floyd Ramsdell: The ‘Goddard of 3D’

    Clark alumnus was a pioneer in ‘stereo pictures’

  • A league of their own: Clark’s first women athletes brought their A-game to campus

    A league of their own: Clark’s first women athletes brought their A-game to campus

    As World War II raged on, women filled the void — in the classroom and on the court

  • Robert W. Kates: Humankind and the environment

    Robert W. Kates: Humankind and the environment

    Clark professor Robert W. Kates’ research career evolved from natural and technological hazards to changes in Earth’s climate, to world hunger, to global environmental sustainability.