Clark University students spent last week attending lectures and films, and participating in competitions and giveaways as part of a coordinated campus-wide effort to honor and celebrate Mother Earth.
International Development Community and Environment
International Development Community and Environment
IDCE Researcher Travels to Africa to Study Emerging Disease Profiles
Dr. Ellen Foley, Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change, first went to Senegal in 1992 as an undergraduate. Since then, much of her work has focused on health concerns facing populations in West Africa, with a primary interest in reproductive and sexual health. Most recently she has teamed up with researchers from Senegal,…
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Enivronmental Science & Policy (ES&P) Research Symposium
Graduating students presented their research at the Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) Program Research Symposium on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at Higgins Lounge and Dana Commons.
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What future do we want? Teach-in illuminates climate change issues
On March 26, Clark University hosted a campus-wide Teach-in on Climate Change aimed at increasing awareness of what is taking place in the unfolding climate crisis, and deepening honest conversations about and creative responses to it.
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The Student Group That is Asking, “What is Social Change?”
For the students who enroll in the International Development and Social Change program (IDSC), offered by the International Development, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE), the phenomena of social change plays an important role throughout the development theory and practice that the curriculum is founded upon. However, many students and professors agree that there is lacking…
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IDCE Professor Shares Insight On Land Tenure and Disasters
On Friday, February 13, 2015 USAID sponsored a panel discussion on the topic: Land Tenure and Disasters. The event highlighted the important linkages that exist between land tenure and disaster planning and recovery. Among the key takeaways from the event were the importance of proactively addressing land tenure as a part of disaster risk reduction…
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Reflections on International Development, Community, and Environment
Student Contributor Sean McCartney (Geographic Information Systems for Development and Environment ’15) There are more times than I can count that I have either been at the IDCE Department, at a party hosted by IDCE students, or walking between classes, and my interactions with fellow students have always left me feeling like the “lone citizen”…
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Lessons in Solidarity: A Journey from Saint Louis to Worcester
Student Contributor Jim Lochhead (International Development and Social Change ’16) shares how his first semester at Clark University came with a sense of detachment between graduate school in Worcester and his home city of St. Louis during the fall out of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. It was particularly trying to leave my home city of…
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Clark innovators offer novel transportation solutions at Worcester incubator event
Several Clark University graduate students took part in a special Worcester Incubator for Innovation Launch event on Jan. 22, at Union Station in Worcester. As Fellows in the Art of Science Learning program, the presenting teams offered novel solutions for some of Worcester’s transportation challenges.
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Clark Launches Year-Long Initiative on UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) program is embarking on a year-long initiative assessing the effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted by the United Nations in 2000. The initiative will include opportunities for engagement among the university, the community at large, and noted scholars focused on specific aspects of the MDGs.…