Last month, the White House launched the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, an initiative inviting institutions of higher education to commit to a year of interfaith cooperation and community service programming on campus. President Obama called the initiative an important way to build understanding between different communities and contribute to the common good. …
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‘A special discipline’: Clark geographers feted in Washington
The setting was as appropriate as a setting could be. The National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. was the site of a March 15 reception honoring five distinguished geographers with Clark ties who are members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Clark boasts more NAS members in the area of geography than any comparable…
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Sustainable Clark: 350 daffodils part of perennial Earth Day plans
The Clark University Ecological-Representatives (Eco-Reps) have invited the entire Clark community to join them for a planting of 350 daffodils in celebration of Earth Day. The student group members, in conjunction with the Sustainable Clark office, will help volunteers – including Clark President David Angel – plant the bulbs between 12:30 p.m. until 3 p.m.,…
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Worcester Poet Bishop centennial: Clark U. plans tribute, concert
In honor of the centennial of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth in Worcester, Clark University will host “A Mirror on Which to Dwell”: Elliott Carter‘s Settings of Six Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor at the Higgins University Center. “An amazing night” — Read a review, “Music,…
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Esteemed political scientist Lake’78 lectures about U.S. in Middle East
As countries in the Middle East and North Africa roil with political upheaval, the United States is faced with the dilemma of choosing which regimes to back and which to abandon. Countries that have traditionally earned U.S. military and political support have conceded some control to America, but that reality is being challenged by global…
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Psychology students present 1st Biennial Conference, ‘Developing Psychology in a Globalizing World’
Representing a “new generation of psychologists,” the Clark University Undergraduate Psychology Committee (UPC) and members of Psi Chi, the international psychology honor society, will present the first biennial conference on “Developing Psychology in a Globalizing World,” from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in various locations in the Higgins University Center, 950 Main…
