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Steinbrecher Fellow spends summer with ‘keepers of the pastures’
Rowan Compton ’25, M.S. ’26, studies land change in the Brazilian cerrado biome
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Taking the temperature of global health
New book proposes a better model for addressing worldwide challenges
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Humanity’s Parable
In choosing a book for the Class of 2026 to read and discuss collectively during their first semester as Clark University students, Clark scholars selected Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian science fiction novel Parable of the Sower. Set in the year 2024, the book envisions a world beset by all manner of unrest generated by climate…
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Tell Me How It Begins, and Ends
Storytelling lies at the heart of what makes us human, from primitive etchings on cave walls to tales of astronauts leaving footprints on the moon. It’s the thread running through the arts and humanities, according to Professor TERRASA ULM, director of the undergraduate program in interactive media in Clark’s Becker School of Design & Technology.…
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Narratives of Nature
When STEPHEN LEVIN, associate professor of English, first offered Ecofictions: Literature and the Environment in fall 2023, the undergraduate course filled up quickly with highly engaged students. “It was one of the most exciting teaching experiences I’ve had in my career,” he says. As the world witnessed the damaging effects of climate change that year,…
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72 hours in the Amazon
Geography professor vies for $10M research prize with Brazilian rainforest study
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Building resilience in Puerto Rico: ‘You have to do things for yourself’
Sustainability and Social Justice professor, students work with coffee community to overcome hurricanes, earthquakes
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Fruit flies and fungus, molecules and mutations
Summer STEM Workshop brings science alive
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HERO still super after 25 years
Student fellows converge on Gateway Cities to survey tree health
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Clark geographer applies ecoacoustic research to assessment of the Amazon
Florencia Sangermano brings expertise to team collecting biodiversity data in three-day competition