Top projects include agraponic food systems, a campus pub, and help for students struggling academically Each spring, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship program at Clark University holds the Ureka! Big Idea Challenge, a contest that encourages students to propose creative ideas that benefit the Clark community and beyond. The winners receive funding to help turn their…
Campus News & Events
This is Clark’s first ‘Week of Happiness’
Clark’s Wellness Outreach Coordinator Erin Dolan says that it is known that February can be one of the more difficult months for college students. For this reason, she has organized Clark’s first annual “Week of Happiness,” which comprises events throughout the week that allow the Clark Community to come together and celebrate kindness, positivity, gratitude and optimism.…
Campus News & Events
Clarkies help solve Worcester’s transportation woes
Join us for the Worcester Incubator for Innovation Launch on Thursday, Jan. 22Since last March, Worcester Incubator for Innovation participants have been using cutting-edge curriculum and working with recognized experts to propose transportation solutions to enhance Worcester’s economic activity, connect its communities, and improve the quality of life for city residents and visitors. Nancy Budwig,…
Campus News & Events, Faculty and Staff Notes, Student News
Undergraduate Academic Awards Web page celebrates student scholars’ achievements
The Dean of the College office is pleased to announce a new website to highlight undergraduate student distinctions. The Undergraduate Academic Awards page replaces the traditional fall Salute to Scholars event, and will allow student distinctions to be continually highlighted rather than celebrated once a year. This will create more visibility for many constituents in…
Campus News & Events, Faculty and Staff Notes
Make a difference this season via the University Police Giving Tree
Faculty and Staff Notes
Professor Les Blatt honored as distinguished alumni by his Pennsylvania high school
Professor S. Leslie Blatt has been presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award from McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pa. Blatt graduated from the school in 1953. Blatt is professor emeritus of physics and education, and former dean of graduate studies and research at Clark. He has a doctorate in physics from Stanford University and is the…
Faculty and Staff Notes
Prof. Valerie Sperling blogs about Putin’s legitimation strategy and macho image
“A key element of Vladimir Putin’s legitimation strategy has been the cultivation of a macho image,” writes Clark University Political Science Professor Valerie Sperling in a recent blog post titled, “Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!” To read more about Sperling and her new book, “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia,” click here.
Faculty and Staff Notes
Fulbright awardees Miller and Butler of Clark Political Science lecture in Poland
Professor of Political Science Mark C. Miller (left), Fulbright Bicentennial Chair at the University of Helsinki, and Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Butler, Fulbright scholar to the University of Wroclaw, are pictured Małgorzata Krasowska, executive director of the Fulbright Center in Poland; just before the Miller and Buter gave lectures at the University of…
Student News
Students: Please fill out Consortium on High Achievement survey, if you received one
Did you receive an email letting you know you were randomly selected to participate in the multi-school survey of students being conducted by the Consortium on High Achievement and Success? Please respond frankly and return the survey promptly while it is on your mind. Your candid feedback will help give an accurate picture of the life…
Campus News & Events
Fall Biology seminars continue Oct. 29
All seminars are held in room 237 of the Lasry Center for Bioscience. Oct. 29; 4 p.m. Robert Bertin,College of the Holy Cross “Land use, climate, alien species, and the changing flora of Worcester County” Nov. 5; 4 p.m. Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University “Eggs, chickens and baskets: the…
