Milestones
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The big thirst
Researchers help drought-stricken Mexico City focus on a greener future.
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Building resilience in Puerto Rico: ‘You have to do things for yourself’
Sustainability and Social Justice professor, students work with coffee community to overcome hurricanes, earthquakes.
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Dick Ford’s impact is felt around the world
Late professor helped build Clark’s international development program.
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‘Water is life’: Three-year NSF study in Mexico brings multi-pronged approach to climate impacts
Researchers from Clark University embark on a three-year project in Central Mexico to help policymakers and the public collectively understand the effect of climate change on chinampas, an ancient Aztec system of gardens and canals.
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Clark alum in Africa rises to the challenge of climate change
After earning his master’s degree, Aougouri Romain Kiragoulou returned to Burkina Faso, West Africa, where he advances community development initiatives and assists people who were forced to leave their homes due to climate change.
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Justice delayed. Justice delivered.
In 2008, John Granville, M.A. ’04, was gunned down in Sudan. A stunning admission by that country’s government has brought some solace to those he left behind.
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Clark professors are helping Puerto Rico brew a better coffee industry
Island slowly rebuilds a year after Hurricane Maria.
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Clark alumna’s research stokes a passion for human rights work
Miranda Weinstein ’16, M.A.’17, sees a disconnect between international politics and understanding the real-world impact of policies and development.
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Alumna cooking up a recipe for women’s success
After conducting field work in Haiti, Lelani Williams, MBA/MA ’16 crafted the idea for Sun Top Solar Cookers to help women in developing countries learn new skills
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Clark University Climate Change Teach-In grapples with the ‘issue of our time’
Our planet just experienced its warmest year on record, and the temperatures are rising.
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Effort to end youth homelessness gets $450K in new funding; Prof. Ross and Clark University students contribute vital research
The announcement of a $450,000 grant from the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts sounded a clear and hopeful note at press conference on “Addressing Youth Homelessness in Worcester,” on Feb. 15 at the YWCA in Worcester.
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IDCE celebrates 10 years of global impact
We want to pull different people in from economics, geography and other departments to teach courses. We just want to be this little entity that brings good people together.
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Granville-Abbas school in Sudan dedicated to slain Clark alumnus
A new school for young women was dedicated recently in southeastern Sudan and it bears the name of two individuals, one a Clark University alumnus, who were shot and killed by Sudanese gunmen in Khartoum in 2008.

