Hands-On Learning
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In Nepal, Sweta Basnet discovers strong health care is more than possible
Two years after twin earthquakes struck central Nepal, the country is still feeling the aftereffects. Thousands of residents are living in temporary shelters, and communities are working to rebuild hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. About Sweta Basnet ’18 Majors: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Spanish Hometown: Concord, N.H. For Clark University undergraduate Sweta Basnet ’18, a Nepali-American, last summer…
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Budding playwrights see their work onstage in biennial festival
About a decade ago, Theatre Arts Professor Gino DiIorio had an idea while reading work submitted by students in his Playwriting class. “I kept saying, ‘This isn’t bad. We should get it up on its feet.’ Then I thought, why don’t we put it up on its feet?” And the biennial New Play Festival was born. The fifth festival, which begins Tuesday, Oct.…
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Clark students take the research lead on Worcester Art Museum exhibition
Problems of Practice history course explores stories behind William Bullard's photos of Worcester's turn-of-the-century people of color
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Students contribute research to Worcester Art Museum’s historic photo exhibition
Rediscovering the story of a community with photos
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Clark, Worcester Art Museum revive an underexposed history
For several months last spring, students in a Problems of Practice history seminar at Clark University painstakingly dug through genealogical records and worked with descendants to unlock the mysteries behind turn-of-the-century photographs of African-Americans and Native Americans in Worcester. This fall, their research culminated in an exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum: “Rediscovering an American Community of…
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A student writer’s take on disappearing rhinos
Elephants, sharks, and gibbons, oh my! Clark University undergraduate student Marissa Callender ’18 encountered them all during an environmental journalism and travel writing internship in Mossel Bay, South Africa – a coastal town about 240 miles east of Cape Town. Working for Africa Media, Callender researched, wrote, photographed and pitched stories about issues facing communities…
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Africa internship offered personal and global discovery for Marissa Callender
Clark University undergraduate Marissa Callender recently experienced a summer of firsts. It was the first time she traveled alone to a new continent; the first time she snapped a selfie with an elephant; the first time she met an Olympic gold medalist; and the first time she came face-to-face with a great white shark. “When I…
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Isabelle Zoeckler ’17 takes Clark’s lessons into the job market
Fifth-year student in MSPC program builds skills during internship at Public Consulting Group
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A student-alumni connection at the cellular level
Colin Sterling Jr. ’18 interns with noted UCLA cancer researcher Dr. Richard Pietras ’69
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Alumni connection forges a student opportunity
During her summer internship at Opportunity@Work, Maddie Bowers ’18 learns from Laura Faulkner ’10, M.P.A. ’11, about the value of mentorship