Clark University is one of three New England schools to offer at least one of the country’s hottest majors for undergraduates, according to The Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges, 2013 edition. The college guide’s “Great Schools for 20 of the Most Popular Undergraduate Majors” list praises Clark for its psychology program. Clark is on…
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults findings released
Emerging adults getting by with a lot of help from their folks; wide majority of parents providing the financial support they didn’t get in their twenties A vast majority of parents of today’s emerging adults (74%) say they provide financial support to their 18- to 29-year-old children, even as they report getting little or no…
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What is the key to being an adult? Clark releases new poll findings
Parents and their emerging adults rank ‘being responsible for yourself’ before money and marriage as key to becoming an adult What marks the beginning of true adulthood? Parents and their 18- to 29-year-old emerging adult children agree that the most important indicator is accepting responsibility for the consequences of your actions and mistakes, according to…
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Seven Clark undergrads to intern in the nonprofit sector this summer
Seven Clark University undergraduates are working as interns in the non-profit sector this summer with support from the Larry Franks ’73, Ellen Berelson and the Theodore H. Barth Foundation. Tara J. Barnes ’15 received funding so that she can serve as an intern at Year Up, a nonprofit organization in Providence, R.I., that provides urban…
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Clark University professor receives $700K grant from NIMH to study postpartum depression issues
Abbie E. Goldberg, associate professor in The Department of Psychology at Clark University, received $718,770 from the National Institute of Mental Health for her three-and-a-half year project, “Mental health in the postpartum period among visible and invisible sexual minority women: A U.S.-Canada study.” Goldberg will serve as principal investigator and will work with Lori E.…
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Clark Poll: Parents welcome emerging adults back to the nest
Parents of 18- to 29-year-old emerging adults feel so positive about their relationships with their children that they welcome them back home, according to a new 2013 Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults, which has become the definitive national survey of this demographic group. In contrast to the popular perception that parents don’t…
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Clark University psychology professor Hines co-authors seminal book on family violence in the U.S.
As recent headlines focus attention on gun laws, video games, bullying and more, a new edition of “Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse” presents students and practitioners with a thought-provoking examination of maltreatment in families and delves into “less understood and more controversial forms of maltreatment,” including the maltreatment of…
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Clark University psychologist examines ‘play behaviors’ of children of same-sex parents
Do children of gay and lesbian parents play the same way children of heterosexual parents do? If not, how do they differ? Is there a benefit or drawback to this? Clark University psychologist Abbie Goldberg and fellow researchers Deborah Kashy of Michigan State University, and JuliAnna Z. Smith of The Center for Research on Families…
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$499.9K grant supports colleges’ work to end interpersonal violence
The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women has awarded $499,962 to four colleges of the Worcester Consortium: Clark University, Assumption College, the College of the Holy Cross, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as part of the government’s Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus Program. The…
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Clark psychologist publishes groundbreaking book on gay dads
According to a new book by Abbie E. Goldberg, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University, when gay men adopt, they perceive they are more readily accepted by their family members than they were when they were childless. This finding, and many other findings relevant to gay men’s experiences of adoption (e.g.,…
