Economics
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Professor Yuko Aoyama named associate provost and dean of research
Clark University has named Graduate School of Geography. Professor Yuko Aoyama to the position of associate provost and dean of research, effective June 1. Read about Yuko Aoyama’s latest book, “The Rise of the Hybrid Domain.” Aoyama received a B.A. from International Christian University, Tokyo, an M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from…
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Love of country, and knowledge, inspires Trang Nguyen
In 2008, Trang Nguyen ’17 learned about the financial crisis impacting millions around the world from inside a high school classroom in Singapore. By this point in her young life, she’d already lived in three countries and soon found her teachers piquing her interest to study global economics in a fourth — the United States.…
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Professor Aoyama’s latest book investigates new paradigm for social innovation
Clark University Geography Professor Yuko Aoyama’s new book, “The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation,” explores a new model of social innovation through which corporations, states, and civil society organizations develop common social agendas despite differences in their primary objectives. Aoyama wrote the book in collaboration with Professor Balaji Parthasarathy of the International Institute…
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What’s next for Trang Nguyen ’17
Clark senior reflects on her college experience, offers advice for international students in 'The Things That Matter' blog post
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A net win for Jacob Reiner ’17
LEEP project, lacrosse and internship sent him to Israel for two summers in a row
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With $2M in grants, researcher uses economics to inform environmental sustainability
Flint, Michigan, officials decided to save $5 million by switching the city’s water source to a more risky alternative. That fateful decision not only exposed 8,000 children to lead poisoning, it also could cost taxpayers an estimated $395 million or more to address the long-term health, educational and social problems stemming from resulting health effects. For environmental…
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Internship mileage may vary; the benefits do not
Andrés Gvirtz ’18 hit the (long) road this summer for Boston Consulting Group
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Undergraduate researcher mines for answers in Mongolia
Environmental science major examines industry’s impact on nomadic farmers
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Clark’s Model UN team takes skills from Worcester into the world
Imagine being in a room with hundreds of other people, each of whom comes to the table representing a different country’s interests. Your challenge: to explain your assigned country’s stance on an important topic like free speech and privacy, build consensus and negotiate a draft resolution upon which all parties agree. Would you know where…
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Clark student takes passion for international relations to work at the United Nations, Human Rights Watch
There are few places Dea Dodi ’17 likes to be more than in the United Nations building in New York. You could say she’s been working her way there since the tender age of 12 when she first asked her parents what the term “political science” meant. Fast forward nine years and Dodi, a political science and economics major at Clark,…