Clark Labs at Clark University is supporting the conservation efforts of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) with its Land Change Modeler software. WWF is the world’s leading conservation organization, with projects and staff in over 100 countries. The Land Change Modeler software includes utilities to analyze and predict land change, as well as…
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Student selected as semifinalist in national volunteer service contest
Clark University student Eric J. Fuchs-Stengel is among 50 semifinalists in the Students in Service Awards sponsored by Washington Campus Compact and Inspireum. The awards recognize outstanding college students whose volunteer service positively impacts society and inspires others to serve. Fuchs-Stengel, of Mahwah, N.J., is the founder and executive director of a youth environmental organization…
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New global partnership gives Clark management students an edge
Clark University Graduate School of Management students focusing on alternative investments will now have an edge over graduates from any other business school in the country, thanks to a new partnership with the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, professionalism, and ethics. GSOM is the first business school…
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Clark ‘scientist-mother’ Stephens urges action against air pollution
What does Clark University Assistant Professor Jennie Stephens have in common with Oscar-nominated actress Natalie Portman? Stephens, along with five other “scientist mothers,” has joined the actress in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the strongest possible standards in limiting mercury and other toxic air pollution. With Environment America and the Union of Concerned…
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‘We haven’t finished the revolution,’ Brazile tells capacity audience
Donna Brazile looked out over the audience in Razzo Hall last Thursday and, after offering her opinion of the frigid weather (she’s not a fan), she established an immediate connection with Clark. Brazile noted that the year Clark University was founded, 1887, is the same year her grandmother, the daughter of former slaves, was born…
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Carnegie Foundation recognizes Clark community engagement
Clark University has been awarded the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2010 Community Engagement Classification. The University is one of 115 schools to most recently earn this designation, which acknowledges Clark’s “significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement, improved teaching and learning and generation of socially responsive knowledge to benefit communities.” “This…
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Professors author ‘essential’ economic geography text
Clark University School of Geography professors Yuko Aoyama, James T. Murphy and Susan Hanson have authored a new textbook, “Key Concepts in Economic Geography,” published by Sage Publications. Written by internationally recognized geographers, the book is recommended as an essential addition to any geography student’s library. “This book covers the breadth of economic geography from…
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Clark on the Volga: Graduate program creates Russian masters
The students receiving their diplomas at the commencement exercise on Nov. 13, 2010, had worked hard for the honor. They attended classes, read stacks of texts, performed research and studied countless hours. Now they possessed the thing they had been working toward: a master’s degree from Clark University. And they’d earned it in Russia. The…
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Senior will hone advocacy skills as U.N. Women’s Conference delegate
Clark University senior Heather A. Mooney, of Waltham, will gain experience in the art of advocacy as a delegate to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings to be held from Feb. 22 to March 4 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. She is one of only 23 women students…
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War against AIDS at a crossroad; status quo won’t do, panelists say
Experts in the long battle against HIV/AIDS gathered in Tilton Hall on Jan. 19 to offer hope that the world now stands at the midpoint of the disease’s global march, with better days ahead. The speakers were on hand to discuss the findings of the aids2031 consortium, published in the new book “AIDS: Taking a…
