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Family Impact Seminars named Bright Idea; Mass. program directed by Clark University

The Family Impact Seminars were recently named a Bright Idea by the Innovations in American Government Awards Program at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Massachusetts Family Impact Seminars are organized and presented by the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University and directed by Denise Hines, research assistant professor…

$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…

Findings point to fungi as prime suspects in fossil fuel mystery

Clark research plays key role in landmark paper on fungal genome evolution; Co-authors of paper published in Science magazine include 10 from Clark, including undergrads More than 300 million years ago, coal production on the planet came to a sudden stop, leaving a puzzle for scientists. What happened? Newly published research by Clark University biology…

Clark students recognized, present at Ethnic Studies Conference

Five Clark University students and two faculty members attended and presented at the 40th annual conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES), held April 4-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Elizabeth Guarino ’13, an English major, won the Cortland Auser Undergraduate Student Paper Competition for “The Impacts of the ‘Ethnic Studies’ Law on the K-12…

Clark undergraduates receive Steinbrecher Fellowships to support creative research

Ten Clark University undergraduate students were recently named Steinbrecher Fellows; all will undertake projects this summer and during the 2012-2013 academic year.  The Steinbrecher Fellowship Program was established in 2006 to encourage and support Clark undergraduates’ pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects. The 2012-2013 Steinbrecher Fellows and their projects are: Alison…

HERO program student fellows present professional-level research

There are HEROs among us here at Clark University. They may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they are developing remarkable powers in environmental research. For more than a decade, the Human-Environment Regional Observatory  (HERO) program at Clark University has provided a unique undergraduate research experience, focusing on and…