Electric vehicles are slowly but steadily gaining traction with consumers in New England, and drivers of EVs in Worcester will soon be “topping off” at charging stations at Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Quinsigamond Community College, and other sites set to be in service soon. The public is invited to join government and university officials,…
Yearly Archives: 2012
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A step toward conservation: Livdahl receives $380,000 NIH grant for parasite dynamics research
Professor Todd Livdahl of Clark’s Department of Biology recently was awarded a three-year, $380,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research titled “Community diversity and parasite dynamics.” This award will support Livdahl’s research on “host dilution,” a hypothesized relationship between the success of a disease and the number of species that the disease…
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Return on Education website illustrates value of a Clark degree
What is a college education worth? The question is both blunt and pervasive, and it’s at the forefront for many prospective students and their parents, who are weighing the value of a college diploma against the expense of earning it. Families are looking for schools that not only provide an excellent education, but will also…
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Clark hosts guidance counselors for sessions on Emerging Adulthood, LEEP, college ‘investment’
They arrived on campus from Chicago and Los Angeles, St. Louis and Raleigh, Cincinnati and Minneapolis, New York and Boston. The schools they represented ran the gamut from elite private institutions to charter schools in struggling urban areas. Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country spent March 18 and 19 at Clark, meeting…
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Clark ONE chapter recognized for its programming — and its passion
Clark University’s ONE Chapter may only include 20 students, but they’re an amazing and effective group of young organizers. As of this writing, Clark’s ONE Chapter is third on the leaderboard in the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC), a friendly national competition involving 3,000+ schools to determine which university’s student body has the most effective poverty-fighting…
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Architect John Johansen recalls Goddard Library’s opening chapter
John M. Johansen considered the audience seated before him inside the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library’s Rare Book Room, and offered a humble assessment of the building he designed 43 years ago. “Architects think of their most recent work as being their best,” he said. “But they can come back to earlier work and they say,…
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Spring break with a stay-cation twist: Students volunteer in their home adopted neighborhood
While many students spent their spring breaks in more traditional ways and in warmer climates, 26 Clark University undergraduates stayed on campus from March 7 to 11, setting out each day to volunteer with area agencies during the University’s first belief-inspired Interfaith Alternative Spring Break. Students worked with eight local non-profit organizations and contributed to…
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Clark named to 2012 President’s Honor Roll for community service
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has named Clark University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youths. Clark has appeared on the honor roll every year since its launch in 2006. The Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can…
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Second Int’l Graduate Students’ Conference March 29- April 1; keynote on ‘War and Genocide’
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Second International Graduate Students’ Conferencefor Holocaust and Genocide Studies on March 29 – April 1, presented in partnership with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students…
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Clark team places 11th of 210 at Harvard Model UN Conference
The Clark University Model UN team placed eleventh out of 210 competing colleges at the annual Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Conference, held in Boston on February 16-19. The Clark students also won an outstanding delegate award and three honorable mentions. Twenty-eight students from Clark participated in this prestigious event along with Yale University,…