Environment and sustainability Archives

Environment and sustainability

New solar awning project unveiled at Sustainability Hub

National Grid, in partnership with Clark University and the City of Worcester, announced the recent installation of the first Massachusetts solar awning system, and celebrated the success of the National Grid Sustainability Hub, located at 912 Main Street, on Friday, March 24. The Sustainability Hub is a center for innovation and community engagement, hosting more than 8,000 visitors…
Graduate student shows how MBAs mean good business for environmentalists

Researching spoon-billed sandpipers in the Arctic might not sound like a job for a prospective M.B.A. student, but that’s exactly what led Meghan Kelly down the path toward graduate school at Clark University. In a recent blog article for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International’s BestBizSchools website, Kelly talks about the research and travel…
Geography Ph.D. candidate uncovers the cold, hard facts about glaciers

Glaciers can seem fairly straightforward: they’re large, move slowly and when global temperatures rise, they melt. However, Ashley York, a geography doctoral candidate at Clark University, is discovering the icy behemoths’ relationship to climate change is more nuanced and complex. She’s mapping terminus, or frontal, positions of tidewater glaciers in two bays on the west coast of…
The biology beneath the ice

Clark researcher explores the impact of Arctic melt
Undergraduate helping to power up community with solar nonprofit

Krissy Truesdale '19 started Solar for Our Superheroes as a high school student. Now at Clark, she's making it shine
Alumnus’ system uncovered emissions test cheating by VW, other automakers

When Leo Breton ’85 was getting ready to apply to colleges, he already knew he was going to major in physics. His mother suggested he check out Clark University because of its links with Robert H. Goddard, “the father of modern rocketry.” Clark was the only university to receive Breton’s application. It’s fitting, because Breton…
Study: Ecosystems slow the rate of rising CO2 concentration

Clark geography professor co-author of Nature Communications article
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…
Professor presents findings on ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

USDA awards Edward Carr for work on climate change, food security
Grad student researches small-scale gold-mining’s impact on biodiversity in Peru

Madre de Dios, in the northern Amazon region of Peru, has been hard hit by the devastating environmental effects of gold-mining. “Whole areas have been transformed into veritable deserts and wastelands,” The Guardian reported recently. That ongoing damage drew Kate Markham, a second-year student in Clark University’s Environmental Science and Policy master’s degree program, to the area to conduct…