Stories Archive

Gifts that always matter

For Larry Franks, M.A. ’73, it wasn’t the technical training gleaned from his graduate education that mattered most, but other, less concrete skills that truly made the difference. “It was the ability to think, the ability to not only assemble data but to understand it, and then, most importantly, communicate it,” he says. A student…
Mapping reparations in Massachusetts

Interdisciplinary project combines public history with data and GIS savvy History Professor Ousmane Power-Greene has been tracking reparations efforts across Massachusetts and has wanted to create a digital map so other scholars, students, and the public could easily search for initiatives. That’s where data science and economics major Jonathan Solomon ’27 comes in. During the…
Polar research blooms inside the hot spots

New Englanders know the summer is painfully brief, so by the time July rolls around, they make sure to head to the water. That could mean surfing in Narragansett, Rhode Island, boating on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, or kayaking down the Connecticut River. Or, in the case of South Portland, Maine, native Ella Christie ’27,…
‘I completely fell in love with research’

Bolstered by Clark opportunities, Krishna Gajjar ’25 enters UPenn Ph.D. program in molecular biology When she arrived at Clark University from Nairobi, Kenya, Krishna Gajjar ’25 vowed that she would take advantage of every opportunity presented to her. By the time she graduated this past May with her bachelor’s in biochemistry and molecular biology, she…
Clark-built dashboard reveals success of conservation efforts where the wild things are

‘It was the most unique thing I’ve done at Clark in the GIS realm’ Elephants in Tanzania, walruses in the Arctic, bison in Montana, and bears in the New York Adirondacks: These animals and their habitats have benefited from research by graduate students in Clark University’s Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar over the past 13…
Harvesting lessons from a farming master class

Reflections from a semester spent studying food production across Central Massachusetts It’s a cold, rainy, miserable day in March and fifteen Clark students are about to find out they are severely underdressed for the weather as they get busy mulching, planting pear trees, and getting dirt under their fingernails at Global Village Farms in Grafton,…
Small but mighty

They are tiny. They fly and squirm, skitter and crawl. They are so humble that they easily escape notice. But ask a Clark scientist about the insects and worms at the center of their research and they’ll let you know that these creatures are also endlessly fascinating—the stories they tell, the secrets they reveal, and…
Main South lessons

Clark-trained teachers like the Surrette siblings bring passion, purpose, and possibility into neighborhood classrooms Main South is to Bill Surrette as Dublin was to James Joyce. The author had a tempestuous relationship with Ireland and left as soon as he could. But Joyce also continually invoked the Emerald Isle and its capital in his writing.…
Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics’ role in our seafood sustainability is anything but shrimpy

Above: A satellite image of an aquaculture area in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics (CCGA) is working with Seafood Watch, a nonprofit based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, to monitor the sustainability of shrimp farming in Ecuador and other countries. (Image courtesy of CCGA) Decade-old aquaculture project has received over…
‘One short experience can be absolutely life-shaping’

Drawn to literature and volunteering, Nick Brunelle ’25 focuses on advocacy Nick Brunelle ’25 gives a detailed, philosophical answer to any question he’s asked. It should come as no surprise — the English and philosophy major is constantly poring through deep and complex texts. These volumes, as well as a passion for community work, have…