Student Contributor Jim Lochhead (International Development and Social Change ’16) shares how his first semester at Clark University came with a sense of detachment between graduate school in Worcester and his home city of St. Louis during the fall out of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. It was particularly trying to leave my home city of…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Graduate School of Management
Course Profile: “Corporate Social Responsibility” – Providing Real Companies with Real Solutions
They are students seeking careers in finance and accounting, in the public and private realms, in large and small companies; but they share an understanding that corporate social responsibility is a business necessity. The Graduate School of Management’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) course, taught by GSOM’s Executive in Residence professor Will O’Brien, provides an overview…
Graduate School of Management, International Development Community and Environment
Clark innovators offer novel transportation solutions at Worcester incubator event
Several Clark University graduate students took part in a special Worcester Incubator for Innovation Launch event on Jan. 22, at Union Station in Worcester. As Fellows in the Art of Science Learning program, the presenting teams offered novel solutions for some of Worcester’s transportation challenges.
International Development Community and Environment
Clark Launches Year-Long Initiative on UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) program is embarking on a year-long initiative assessing the effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted by the United Nations in 2000. The initiative will include opportunities for engagement among the university, the community at large, and noted scholars focused on specific aspects of the MDGs.…
International Development Community and Environment
New Signature Fellowships Launched for Fall 2015
The International Develoment, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE) is pleased to announce six new Signature Fellowships. IDCE Signatures encompass issues of pressing global and local concern and are areas where the department is investing significant energy in deepening its teaching, research, advocacy, practice, and activism. Students whose prior experiences and research interests exemplify these signature…
International Development Community and Environment
IDSC Student first to partner on gender research
Lisa Anderberg from Clark University will be the first graduate student to conduct gender analysis directly with a biological scientist working in the Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) Research Program as part of a new partnership between RTB and various US universities.