Campus News & Events

Campus news, announcements and events of broad appeal.

Heard at the (bottle-less) water cooler…

As of November, 17 water coolers on the Clark campus have been upgraded to greener, cleaner, safer bottle-less filtration models. That’s about 30% of the coolers on campus! According to Business Manager Paul Wykes, in most cases there is a cost savings to the University because the filtered water comes from our own water lines…

FINAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Students invited to submit 2012 Davis Projects for Peace ideas; due Jan. 31

A message from the desk of Donald Honeman, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid: Clark has once again been invited to participate in the Davis Project for Peace initiative.  This is an invitation for all undergraduates on our campus to design grassroots projects for peace.  The selected submission will be funded at levels up to…

IDCE alumna and anthropologist Genese Sodikoff publishes new book

IDCE alumna Genese Sodikoff (IDSC ’96) edited and contributed to The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death, which was recently published by Indiana University Press. Sodikoff is an assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J. Her research focuses on rain forest conservation and international development in Africa, specifically the…

27th Annual MLK Celebration features lecture on ‘Progress in the Age of Obama’

  Clark University presents Dr. Mark Lamont Hill speaking on BUILDING COMMUNITY IN AN HOUR OF CHAOS: PROGRESS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012; 7 p.m. Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center Professor, author, and cultural critic Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D., offers a critical analysis of the current social and political moment. By…