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Economist’s research examines construction workers’ fatality rates across states

Professor Wayne Gray involved in study funded by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Clark’s Puerto Rico connection

Island's students fall in love with mainland university
Just your typical 52-day field trip

In 1928, Clark students embarked on a transcontinental adventure — for credit
Clark researchers investigate our fascination with lawns

What does the pursuit of the perfect yard say about us?
Clark students study youth culture in Cuba

Cuba has often been referred to as an island nation that is “stuck in time.” However, Crystal Hill ’20, a women’s and gender studies major, was pleasantly surprised to notice that while the city of Havana included classic ’50s Cadillacs and relics from years past, it also contained billboards about modern-day social problems such as…
Geography professor selected for top-level carbon research program’s science leadership group

Christopher A. Williams, associate professor at the Clark University Graduate School of Geography and adjunct associate professor of biology, will join the North American Carbon Program’s Science Leadership Group (NACP), nominated by members of the Carbon Cycle Science Interagency Working Group. Williams also was invited to serve as co-chair for the development of a high-level science implementation plan for the NACP,…
‘The Dutch Moment’: Prof. Klooster’s latest book explores 17th-century empire building

In his new book, “The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World,” History Professor Willem Klooster delves into the ways “the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast.” “The Dutch…