Graduate Arts & Sciences
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Life after the Strassler Center: Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. ’16
Armenian Genocide scholar wins plum Polonsky Fellowship from the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel
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Stefanie Covino battles climate change one town at a time
Severe storms. Flooding. Drought. Erosion. Devastated communities struggling to rebuild. These doomsday headlines have become all too common, sweeping the news on a daily basis. In the face of climate change, communities are struggling with competing priorities and have difficulty focusing on climate resilience and conservation. The stakes are high. On the front lines of…
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Stakeholders applaud students’ ‘valuable work’ on Greening the Gateway Cities
As a budding biologist in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Lohr ’19 surveyed and mapped all the trees on her high school campus. Now an undergraduate at Clark University, she is pursuing her passion for trees on a much larger scale, through the Graduate School of Geography’s HERO (Human-Environment Regional Observatory) program. “This program was almost custom-made to…
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Clark HERO Fellows work to green Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities
Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities sport architectural reminders of their once-bustling industrial past: factories, warehouses, and ubiquitous triple-deckers, all built close to the street. What’s often missing from this picture? Trees. This summer, six Clark University undergraduate researchers have joined a multi-agency effort to increase the tree canopy to these 26 small- to mid-sized Gateway Cities, bringing cooling shade…
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Biology doctoral student wins prestigious NSF fellowship
Emily Dart, a first-year doctoral student in biology at Clark University, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, making her one of only 2,000 students, out of 12,000 who applied, to receive the prestigious award this year. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and…
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Alumni, employers share wisdom and advice with environmental science students
Clark alumni recently returned to campus to share their insights with budding environmental scientists about their educational and career pathways and strategies for how best to prepare for a successful professional future. The April 4 event, Practicing Environmental Science, was organized and hosted by Christopher A. Williams, director of the undergraduate program in Environmental Science and an associate professor…
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Geography professor’s Nature article examines ecologists’ methods, scales for collecting data
A study led by Clark University geographer Lyndon Estes and published this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution suggests how ecologists might employ better methods and scales for collecting data on ecological phenomena. Ecologists study ecosystems by comparing changes over time and between different areas of a region or the world; they collect data by making on-site…
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Professor Peet to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association of Geographers
Three other geographers with Clark ties also to receive honors at AAG meeting
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Biologists make inroads into development of nervous systems
A recent article by Clark University researchers in Developmental Biology is making waves in the field — receiving shout-outs on social media — and netted an award for the paper’s first author, Allan Carrillo-Baltodano, a doctoral candidate in biology at Clark. Carrillo-Baltodano conducts research in the lab of Néva Meyer, assistant professor of biology, who is his co-author on “Decoupling brain…
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Clark research dean and alumni track the political drift of anti-globalization
As President Trump and other global leaders headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, two international publications featured timely articles by Yuko Aoyama, associate provost, dean of research and professor of geography at Clark University, and three Clark geography alumni, examining the backlash against globalization. The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society published “Globalisation, Uneven Development…