Climate Change
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Geospatial learning and innovation take center stage
Clark and Esri to team on remote sensing/imagery curriculum
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‘Our fate is tied to theirs’
Sea turtles personify connection between humans and nature amid climate crisis
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Biologist wins $1.56 million NSF CAREER grant to study how iron helps the world breathe
Professor Nathan Ahlgren’s marine microbial ecology research focuses on key producer of earth’s oxygen
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‘It’s easier to see inherent truth in a documentary’
Mexico City water crisis is the subject of student filmmakers’ storytelling
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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