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Clark University Prof. Huang honored as Outstanding Teacher

At Clark University’s annual Senior Brunch (May 14), where faculty and staff serve a hearty breakfast and present awards to soon-to-be graduates, Betsy Huang, associate professor of English and Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion, was honored by her students with the Outstanding Teacher Award.
Majoring in English at Clark

Being an English major at Clark is easy, and cheesy as this sounds, I never wanted to miss a class. Some books I’d read before; some books were brand new to me. What was really incredible though were the new and critical perspectives that were presented in class when my classmates spoke up, in discussion…
Rare book exhibit turns the page on the Jonas Clark literary collection

Jonas Clark loved books. In fact, the founder of Clark University was so passionate about volumes filled with words in languages both modern and ancient, and illustrations etched with detail and delicacy, that he accrued a personal library estimated at 10,000 books. In 1889, he donated some 4,000 volumes to the University’s library, and today…
Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

There was a time when food was something you ate but rarely pondered. You did not know, or care, where your dinner came from, or how it would interact with your body once it was consumed. That was then. Sure, many folks still eat with abandon, but many others, like the Clarkies profiled on these…
Presidents lead Difficult Dialogues series on livelihood and career

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella, Clark President David Angel, faculty and students gathered in Dana Commons Oct. 18 to grapple with the issue of how liberal arts colleges are preparing students for lives of work. The event, titled “Livelihood and Vocation,” was the third symposium in “Educating … for What?” — this semester’s Difficult Dialogues…
Student presenters shine at 10th annual Shakespeare conference

Undergraduates from eleven colleges and universities across New England represented Shakespeare through scholarship and performance as they participated in the Tenth Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference hosted at Clark University, on April 16. The conference offers a prestigious showcase for student research in the humanities, and this year’s participants on the theme “Representing Shakespeare” presented one of the…
Clark celebrates Olson centenary

From March 24 through March 27, Clark University will join with other Worcester institutions in honoring poet and activist Charles Olson, who was born in the city on Dec. 27, 1910, and was an English instructor at the University for two years. The Worcester County Poetry Association is planning the centennial celebration, which will include events at…
N.H. memorial service planned for Prof. Tapply, who died July 28

WORCESTER, Mass. — William G. Tapply, Clark’s writer-in-residence and professor of English, died July 28, 2009, at his home in Hancock, N.H., of leukemia. He was 69. Decades of students knew Tapply through the classes he taught since arriving at Clark in 1995. But countless readers knew Tapply as the author of more than 40…