Graduate research

  • Annual conference showcases ‘hope’ in research of graduate students

    Annual conference showcases ‘hope’ in research of graduate students

    Just months after graduating from Clark, Samantha Arsenault ’15 found a way to put her economics degree to good use. She conducted research with Associate Professor Laurie Ross to examine a daunting community problem: whether boys who witness or are victims of crimes in childhood may later be drawn to violence, criminal activity and gangs. “I was able to…

  • Clark geographers’ new study projects melting of Antarctic ice shelves will intensify

    Clark geographers’ new study projects melting of Antarctic ice shelves will intensify

    New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continue at the present rate. Ice shelves are the floating extensions of the continent’s massive land-based ice sheets.…