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Andrew L. Stewart, assistant professor of psychology, wins best paper award

International Team of Scholars for Paper on International Bystanders to the Arab UprisingsAndrew L. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has won the 2015 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The honor awards $1,000 to the “best paper or article of the year on intercultural or…

Clark U psychologist, sociologist share grant for community health assessment

Professors Esteban Cardemil of the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology and Rosalie Torres Stone of the Department of Sociology received a grant of $29,000 from the Fairlawn Fund of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation. Cardemil and Torres Stone, in collaboration with the Worcester Division of Public Health (WDPH) and the Systems and Psychosocial Advances…

Adam Institute director receives grant to study middle-school math teaching and learning

Thomas Del Prete, Director of the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice, has been awarded a contract for an additional $10,000 from Worcester Public Schools (via a Massachusetts Department of Education grant) for continuation of the project entitled “Title II-B: Massachusetts Mathematics and Science Partnership Program (MMSP).” Del Prete’s project targets mathematical content…

Hiatt Center director Bielaczyc receives NSF grant

Katerine Bielaczyc, director of Clark’s Hiatt Center for Urban Education, is Senior Researcher on a 1.3M grant from the National Science Foundation’s CyberLearning and Future Learning Technologies awarded to PI Janis Dickinson (Cornell) for a three-year project entitled “DIP: Potential for everyday learning in a virtual community: a design-based investigation.” Bielaczyc will be heading a…

Studio art professor Sisson exhibits encaustic paintings

Clark University studio art professor Toby Sisson is currently showing examples of her encaustic paintings at two group exhibitions: Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ (through September 7), and 19 on Paper at The Hive in North Kingstown, RI (through August 29). Encaustic (also called…

Davidson receives grant to study Olympic-host cities

Mark Davidson, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, has been awarded $20,730 from the International Olympic Committee for his year-long project titled “Governing to maintain legacies: urban governance, policies and the long-term impacts of the Olympics.” Davidson’s research will examine ways in which recent Olympic-host cities have developed institutional and…