Power of a Clark education Archives

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…
‘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…
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,…
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.…
‘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…
‘Science can be creative’

In the lab, Marina Sako ’26 investigates DNA ‘breakage’ Marina Sako ’26 recalls wondering as a child how broken bones “know” to put themselves back together. This early fascination gave her a thirst to know how the human body operates on a molecular level, and eventually led her to study biochemistry and molecular biology. Sako…
From art to code to games

Larriyah Graham ’25 comes from a family of artists — photographers, graffiti artists, sketchers, and crocheters. Their great-great-grandmother was one of the famous quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, whose exquisite blankets have been exhibited in museums across the country, including the Smithsonian. Graham is living beyond anything their ancestor could have imagined, designing art using…