From Mass Moments: “On this day [March 16] in 1926, Clark University physics professor Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid fuel rocket — and with it the space age. Standing in a snow-covered field in Auburn, Massachusetts, he watched as the rocket he had built rose 41 feet into the air, flew for two…
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Internat’l Center to host delegation from Egypt for internship program
The International Center of Worcester (ICW) will host a delegation of three young community leaders from Egypt, from March 24 to April 23. Their travel was delayed by the popular uprising in their country, but finally they are able to visit the United States. The delegation includes a human rights lawyer, the director of a community…
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Strassler Center event casts new light on iconic Vishniac photos
Sometime in 2012, the International Center of Photography in New York will unveil an exhibit of photographs by Roman Vishniac, a world famous photographer whose prolific published works became iconic images of Jewish shtetl life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. But the discovery of a vast trove of previously unpublished photographs has revealed more…
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Clark mourns death of former president Richard P. Traina
Richard P. Traina, president of the University from 1984 to 2000, passed away at home on March 8, 2011. President Traina was a highly regarded historian, educator, leader, and innovator of Clark’s renowned University Park Partnership.
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Clark, Woodland Academy students publish ‘Aventuras (Adventures)’
Seven Clark University students and 20 third- and fourth-graders at Woodland Academy in Main South published a bilingual paperback storybook this fall, “Aventuras (Adventures).” Last semester, Clark students from visiting professor Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi’s Spanish 127 class met weekly with teachers Danielle Ballon and Lillian Rentas and their students at Woodland Academy to write and illustrate…
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IDCE celebrates the first 10 years
On March 30 and 31, the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) will celebrate its first ten years as a formal department, inviting the Clark community to a keynote address and symposium. IDCE students are immersed in studies of grass roots initiatives, social movements, government policy, market approaches, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, individual action…
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Faculty panel Mar. 2 to discuss events under way in Middle East
Clark University will present “Popular Protests, New Media, & Change in the Middle East” a panel on the events unfolding in the Middle East, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2, in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street. The six featured panelists include: Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian…
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Senior places 1st in juried exhibit
Clark University senior Stephanie M. Richardson may place a new title on her photographic triptych “Image 4 and Image 62,” perhaps naming it “Image 1” after winning the top honor as best in show at the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Art Exhibition at the ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery. The juried exhibition, which began in 2005, showcases…
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Clark faculty composer is honored by Academy of Arts and Letters
John Aylward, assistant professor of music composition and theory at Clark University, is one of 15 composers selected for an award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. His award will be presented at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May. Aylward, a professor, composer, and pianist, will receive one of only two Goddard Lieberson…
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Clark continues winning tradition at Harvard National Model U.N.
Twenty-eight students represented Clark University’s Model U.N. team at the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference (HNMUN) in Boston, Feb. 17 to 20, competing vigorously in several committees and winning seven awards. “Clark’s Model U.N. team has consistently performed well in the past years, and this year’s team has kept up that tradition of winning,”…