Sustainability and Social Justice
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Clark strengthens academic partnership with Ethiopia’s Wollo University
A new partnership with Wollo University was was announced at a Clark lecture by Dr. Teferi Abate, a senior research anthropologist at Yale.
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‘The more people come together, the more change can happen’
In a time of threats against human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, a Clark University professor has teamed up with colleagues to launch Community Organizing Journal, featuring peer-reviewed articles and reflective essays by academics and practitioners from around the world.
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‘We must tell the story of the Earth’
Through a series of maps that he presented during his talk at Clark, Esri Story Maps founder Allen Carroll told his personal and professional story.
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‘Let’s take this journey together’
“Feminist Curiosity is for These Dark Times” is billed as Professor Cynthia Enloe’s “final Clark lecture,” and the Oct. 16 event will indeed be the coda to her long-running series of fall lectures that she’s been delivering since about 2010. But she’s quick to add that this is far from the end of her story.
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‘I wanted to be in the communities’
From global to grassroots, Solange Biandaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, is a leader
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‘The whole community will get healthier’
Resilient Worcester grant seeks to improve effectiveness of youth violence interventions
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Harvesting lessons from a farming master class
Reflections from a semester spent studying food production across Central Massachusetts
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‘A deeper understanding of the world’
Natasha Devlin ’26 finds the pulse of public health
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Making a ‘tangible difference in people’s lives’
This spring, 52 students are participating in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice’s inaugural common seminar, Principles and Ethics in Community Engagement, which will be offered annually.
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Course examines humans’ tangled relationship with fungi and plants
In Plants, People, and Fungi, a new, advanced course focused on humans’ age-old relationships with flora and funga, Clark students encounter stories like those of The Iceman we now call Ötzi, and Fungus Man and the trickster Raven.