The International Develoment, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE) is pleased to announce six new Signature Fellowships. IDCE Signatures encompass issues of pressing global and local concern and are areas where the department is investing significant energy in deepening its teaching, research, advocacy, practice, and activism. Students whose prior experiences and research interests exemplify these signature…
International Development Community and Environment
IDSC Student first to partner on gender research
Lisa Anderberg from Clark University will be the first graduate student to conduct gender analysis directly with a biological scientist working in the Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) Research Program as part of a new partnership between RTB and various US universities.
Graduate School of Management, International Development Community and Environment
National Grid Executives Talk Corporate Responsibility with Graduate Students
Graduate students at Clark University were treated to a special visit in November with two executives from the United Kingdom corporate headquarters of National Grid. Donald Johnson, Head of Corporate Responsibility & Brand Strategy for National Grid, and Jim Gould, Vice President Strategic Communications, came to Clark as part of instructor Will O’Brien’s “Corporate Social…
Graduate School of Management, International Development Community and Environment
PricewaterhouseCoopers and AHOLD USA Executives Discuss Sustainability Reporting
Clark University was honored to have senior executives from two large international corporations meet with graduate students recently to take part in a panel discussion on sustainability reporting and assurance. Executives from AHOLD, an international Dutch retailer and parent company of Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores, Martin’s Food Markets and Peapod were on hand, as…
International Development Community and Environment
Sustainability students and staff visit SolarFlair, one of Clark’s partners in green energy
In late October, 20 members of the Clark community—a cross section of students, staff, and faculty—hopped on a bus to tour SolarFlair in Charlton, MA. Greeted by Matt Arner, founder of SolarFlair, the group heard the story of the farm and the support from Clark that made the solar farm possible. In his quest to apply his…
International Development Community and Environment
Professor Borges-Mendez on the Puerto Rican community in Western Mass.
Community Development and Planning Professor Ramon Borges-Mendez recently participated in a community meeting to discuss the accomplishments and challenges facing the Puerto Rican community in western Massachusetts.