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Gurel APA-Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers celebrates 10 years

In the past decade, more than 200 high school teachers from around the country have traveled to Clark during the summer to attend the annual Lee Gurel American Psychological Association–Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers. This year, participants left the workshop with new contacts, textbooks and posters, and some took with them something a bit more personal:…
At White House forum, psychologist Abbie Goldberg shares research on gay fathers

Abbie Goldberg participated in a Working Fathers panel, organized by the White House, on the topic of the father’s role in parenting and the shifting nature of parenthood. The Obama administration hosted the forum to spotlight the need for family-friendly policies in the workplace. Other experts on the panel, “New Roles for Dads at Home,” included…
Prof. Wendy Grolnick earns prestigious APA fellowship

Clark University professor of psychology Wendy Grolnick has been named the 2014-2015 Executive Branch Science Fellow by the American Psychological Association (APA). Through a partnership between the APA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), she will also be a member of the incoming AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows during that…
The Kids are All Right (Their Parents, too)

Two magazine covers, appearing more than five years apart, make Jeffrey Jensen Arnett alternately cringe and smile. The first, from the Jan. 24, 2005, TIME magazine, shows a man in his twenties, dressed in business-casual attire, sitting in a sandbox and looking wistfully into the distance. The accompanying spring 2014 headline reads: “Meet the Twixters, young adults…
Clark University students learn lobbying how-to’s during Advocacy Day conference in Washington

A group of Clark University students are back on campus after participating in Advocacy Day, a conference held by the Association of International Educators in Washington, D.C., from March 17-19. Associate Director of the Office of Intercultural Affairs Patricia Doherty and Associate Director of Study Abroad Programs Connie Whitehead Hanks, who accompanied the student group, wrote: “Advocacy Day gave us, as NAFSA members, the…
April 17 lecture to commemorate anniversary of Armenian Genocide

Historian Taner Akçam delves into controversial memoir by Armenian soldier
Where Are the Men? Counselor Symposium to examine gender gap

Dozens of college advisers and guidance counselors from around the country will convene with a panel of distinguished academics and professionals for the Third Annual Counselor Symposium at Clark University, titled “Where Are the Men?” The symposium, on Sunday March 23 and Monday March 24, will focus on the growing gender gap between young men and women entering…
Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults: Most parents and kids still talk more often than text

Parents once had to beg their grown children to keep in touch. Today, not so much. Emerging adults (18- to 29-year-olds) are in daily or near-daily contact with their grown children, according to the 2013 Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults. Texting is common, the poll finds, but the old-fashioned phone call is still…
Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults: We had it tougher; their future looks bright

Most parents say their grown children have a better life than they did when they were young, but their current life satisfaction is surprisingly similar to their children’s, according to the new Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults. The Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults finds that 63% of parents of…
Clark prof. receives grant to provide Marriage Checkups to military

James V. Córdova, associate professor of psychology and director of Clinical Training and The Marriage Checkup Project at Clark University, has been awarded a $56,156 grant from the Department of Defense’s Defense Health Program to support his project, “Disseminating the marriage checkup in Air Force primary care settings.” Professor Córdova will work with Lt. Col. Jeffrey Cigrang of…