International Development, Community, and Environment Department Archives

International Development, Community, and Environment Department

Making Black Lives Matter on Earth: Teach-in dialogue looks at race and climate activism

Session Two of the March 23 Climate Change Teach-in at Clark University was organized around the question, How do we choose to respond? The session comprised nine conversation groups or panels. One panel, Making Black Lives Matter on Earth, examined racial justice and environmental movements, revealing connections and disconnections between them. More than 50 attendees filled concentric seating, facing panelists and…
First-year students tackle tough public health issues

The Boston Globe reported this stark statistic last fall: Halfway through 2015, more than 4.5 times as many people in Massachusetts had died from opioid-related overdoses than from car crashes. By the end of the year, opioid-related deaths numbered over 1,200, nearly a 400 percent increase since 2000. Now, with the help of Marianne Sarkis and her First-Year Intensive (FYI) course, “Healthy Cities,” 15 Clark…
Bridging the Health Care Divide

Clark Professor Ellen Foley’s first visit to Senegal was in 1992, as a college student studying anthropology and women’s studies during her semester abroad. Today, she visits the country at least twice a year to pursue her research on emerging health inequalities in urban West African communities. “We’re looking at type 2 diabetes, hypertension as well as classic…
Clark ranked a top Peace Corps volunteer-producing school

Clark University is number 23 on the Peace Corps’ 2016 rankings of the top volunteer-producing colleges and universities. Clark is ranked on the list of small colleges and universities, with 8 alumni currently volunteering worldwide. Since 1961, 255 Clark alumni have served in the Peace Corps; this is the second straight year that the University…
At Paris talks, USDA presents global food security report; Clark scientist a lead author

As world leaders meet in Paris for international climate change talks, a just-released report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture co-authored by Clark University Professor Edward Carr is focusing attention on how climate change will likely impact the world’s food security. Carr, director of the International Development, Community and Environment Department, was a lead author…
Clark grad students recount challenges, share experiences of Haiti fieldwork

As the spring semester was coming to an end, a dozen Clark University graduate students embarked on a field trip to conduct research for two non-government organizations in Haiti. In mere hours, they moved from one of the richest nations in the world to one that is acknowledged as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.…
Clark University appoints leading development expert to head IDCE

Clark University has appointed Professor Edward R. Carr as director of its Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE). Professor Carr comes to Clark from the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, where he served as the associate director of the Walker Institute for International and Area Studies and director…
Clark Graduate Students Selected as EDF Climate Corps Fellows

The Graduate School of Management and the International Development, Community, and Environment Department are proud to announce that two dual-degree graduate students have been chosen as Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps fellows this year. Christian Davies (MBA/MS-Environmental Science & Policy, ’16), and Edward Snook (MBA/MS-Environmental Science and Policy, ’16) will be two of the…
Nine undergraduates awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support creative projects on campus and abroad

Nine 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 2015–2016 academic year. Information about the students and their projects follows: Oyut Amarjargal ’17, of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, will conduct research and complete a community service project this summer…
SynergE Worcester on track to save more than $1M in annual college energy costs

A collaborative college initiative that was started four years ago is now on track to save more than $1 million in annual energy costs for Clark University, College of the Holy Cross and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. SynergE Worcester, a program that was developed by the three colleges in conjunction with National Grid and GreenerU, is…