Professors Esteban Cardemil of the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology and Rosalie Torres Stone of the Department of Sociology received a grant of $29,000 from the Fairlawn Fund of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation. Cardemil and Torres Stone, in collaboration with the Worcester Division of Public Health (WDPH) and the Systems and Psychosocial Advances…
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Adam Institute director receives grant to study middle-school math teaching and learning
Thomas Del Prete, Director of the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice, has been awarded a contract for an additional $10,000 from Worcester Public Schools (via a Massachusetts Department of Education grant) for continuation of the project entitled “Title II-B: Massachusetts Mathematics and Science Partnership Program (MMSP).” Del Prete’s project targets mathematical content…
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Hiatt Center director Bielaczyc receives NSF grant
Katerine Bielaczyc, director of Clark’s Hiatt Center for Urban Education, is Senior Researcher on a 1.3M grant from the National Science Foundation’s CyberLearning and Future Learning Technologies awarded to PI Janis Dickinson (Cornell) for a three-year project entitled “DIP: Potential for everyday learning in a virtual community: a design-based investigation.” Bielaczyc will be heading a…
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Armstrong and DiRado prepare joint photography exhibition
Clark University studio art faculty Frank Armstrong and Stephen DiRado are collaborating on a joint exhibition of large-scale photography to be on display at Worcester State University’s Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery from Nov. 6 to Dec. 11. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The show, titled Regarding…
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Studio art professor Sisson exhibits encaustic paintings
Clark University studio art professor Toby Sisson is currently showing examples of her encaustic paintings at two group exhibitions: Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ (through September 7), and 19 on Paper at The Hive in North Kingstown, RI (through August 29). Encaustic (also called…
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Davidson receives grant to study Olympic-host cities
Mark Davidson, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, has been awarded $20,730 from the International Olympic Committee for his year-long project titled “Governing to maintain legacies: urban governance, policies and the long-term impacts of the Olympics.” Davidson’s research will examine ways in which recent Olympic-host cities have developed institutional and…
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Sperling talks on Sex, Politics, and Putin
Professor of political science Valerie Sperling delivered an invited lecture at the University of Florida Center for European Studies on Monday, April 7. In her talk “Sex, Politics, and Putin, ” she explored how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in Putin’s Russia. Despite their political polarization, regime allies…
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Economist Johnston participates in stormwater workshop
Professor of economics Robert Johnston served as steering committee member, moderator and speaker for the day-long workshop “Current Stormwater Concerns and Solutions” held on March 12 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The workshop was organized by the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in cooperation with Clark University and WPI. The workshop’s…
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Korstvedt’s edition of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 to air on PBS
On April 4, 2014, the 1888 version of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, edited by professor of music Benjamin Korstvedt ’87, will be broadcast in a performance by the Cleveland Orchestra on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). Korstvedt, a leading scholar of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96), has explored the complex text-critical issues surrounding Bruckner’s…
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Physicist Blatt talks to local organizations about the physics of art; climate change
On March 11, 2014, Les Blatt, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Education, presented a talk titled “Neo-Impressionism: Art and Science” at a meeting of the Worcester Art Museum Friends of the Library. The presentation touched on aspects of the physics of light, the sometimes peculiar nature of our visual perception, and the once-controversial artistic experiments of…