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Worcester honors 99-year-old Clark alum for decades of public service

Retired accountant Stanley Gutridge ’45 may be a numbers man, but he also has a way with words. “I’m the baby of my family,” says the 99-year-old with a laugh, “and the lone survivor.” Gutridge has seen a lot of life while helping others make the most of theirs, efforts that have not gone unnoticed.…
Alumna helps uncover evidence of Holocaust escape tunnel in Lithuania

A recent Clark University graduate is part of a research story that has made international headlines: archaeologists’ discovery of a tunnel dug by Jews in Lithuania trying to escape extermination during the Holocaust. After graduating with a dual degree in art history and ancient civilization this May, Rachel Polinsky ’16 traveled to Lithuania to join…
Elie Wiesel’s impact on Clark University

Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel died last week at 87 years old, but not before working unflaggingly to keep the memory of those lost during the Holocaust alive and to encourage the world to remember and understand what both victims and survivors endured. “Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” he said when he accepted…
Clark undergrads receive funding for summer internships at Facing History and Ourselves

Spencer Cronin ’18 and Hannah King ’19 are spending the summer interning for Facing History and Ourselves in Brookline, continuing their studies and conducting research with the help of stipends they received from Clark’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. Cronin, a history major, is developing programs of Holocaust and genocide studies education for secondary schools across the country while at…
Clark history professor receives ‘Friend of the Armenians’ award

Clark University History Professor Taner Akçam received the “Friend of the Armenians” award from the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) at a banquet of the Diocesan Assembly on April 29 in Cleveland. Hundreds of Armenian Church leaders from around the country attended. “It is deeply rewarding to be recognized as a friend…
The printed page

In books this year, Clark University faculty examined the U.S. struggle against radical Islam, issues involving the health care of black women and the challenges for families of gay and lesbian children who marry.
Students to head to Bermuda, Berlin and beyond as part of Steinbrecher research

Eight Clark University undergraduate students were recently awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support their pursuit of original ideas, creative research and community service projects this summer and during the 2016-2017 academic year. The students (five are pictured above) and their projects include: Sophie Debler ’17, a biology major, who will conduct research on the possible effects of variation in feeding sources…
Blackhawk gives voice to the unspoken genocide

It was the extermination of entire tribes — the murder and displacement of millions, the theft of lands, the destruction of cultures. And yet, according to Yale professor Ned Blackhawk (pictured), the eradication of Native Americans in the United States and Canada over several centuries somehow escapes consideration as a genocide in many history texts. In the April 15…
Clark University President’s Lecture to focus on genocide of Native Americans

Clark University will host Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk for a President’s Lecture, “Colonial Genocide in Native North America: Varying Methods and Approaches,” on Friday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Razzo Hall in the Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street, Worcester. This free, public lecture serves as the keynote address for a weekend symposium,…
2016 Climate Change Teach-In asks crucial questions about issue

The stakes are high. The planet is changing profoundly. What does it mean, what is possible, and what is needed? Clark University’s second Climate Change Teach-In on March 23 brought the campus together for a deep consideration of the challenges to the planet’s health. The day featured a variety of teach-in sessions and a campus-wide…