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Strassler Center offers access to Shoah Foundation visual archives

Clark, through its Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, is among 25 institutions worldwide with access to the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to collect and preserve the testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. “Digital access to the Shoah foundation archives…

Clark students work for disabled during spring break trip to Brazil

Twelve Clark ndergraduate and graduate students, and one Clark alumnus, returned from another successful International Field Experience with staff from Seven Hills Global Outreach over Spring Break 2010. The group spent 10 days in São Paulo, Brazil, exploring the concept of Social Entrepreneurship through the guidance of Clark Graduate School of Management Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence David Jordan. On this trip, social entrepreneurship was experienced through…

New play fest takes to the stage in April

The Clark New Play Festival features nine new plays written and directed by Clark students, and is the product and collaboration of two Theater Arts classes: Professor Gino DiIorio’s Playwriting II class and Professor Raymond Munro’s Directing Seminar. It’s a unique opportunity for students to be involved in part of the development process. It’s a…

Book drive begins this week

The annual Give A Book drive, sponsored by Worcester: The City that Reads, will begin this week. The goal of the citywide book drive is to collect K-8 level books for distribution to Worcester Public Schools students who do not have the means to obtain adequate books for summer reading. If you have any age-appropriate…

IDCE Speaker Series addresses health, disparities and race

The International Development, Community and Environment department presents it spring lecture series. Susan Reverby Wednesday, March 31 from 4:00—6:00 p.m.; the Rose Library in the Cohen-Lasry House Susan Reverby is a professor in the History of Ideas and Women’s Studies program at Wellesley College. She is a historian of medicine and public health, and author…

Electro-acoustic piano concert

Keith Kirchoff, Piano Music by Allen Strange, Russell Pinkston, Keith Kirchoff, Steve Ricks & Christopher Trebue Moore Wednesday, March 24, 8 p.m. Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Free and open to the public Keith Kirchoff has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States, including New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and…