Award-winning Clark professor helps city students tell their stories through film What are the stories in people’s lives that are not being told? And what stories are being misrepresented in the media? Eric DeMeulenaere, assistant professor of urban schooling in the Clark University Education Department, posed these questions to a group of Worcester public high…
For Jessica Horton ’17, the straightforward course title, Community and Health: Nonprofit Grantmaking, hardly hinted at the immersive experience to come. Throughout the fall semester, Horton and her classmates researched, wrote and pitched grant proposals on behalf of several Worcester nonprofit health organizations that address health and social disparities among underserved populations. But the most…
Grant will support Nicole M. Overstreet, Ph.D., in examining the needs of those affected by intimate partner violence The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s leading philanthropy in health and health care, has awarded Nicole M. Overstreet, assistant professor of psychology at Clark University, a 24-month grant through the New Connections program. Overstreet is…
Students are arriving on campuses around the country as another academic year begins. What draws them there and what do they expect from their college educations? And for those who do not go on to college after high school, why not? A newly released Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults: Work, Education and Identity provides…
Clark University Graduate School of Geography alumna Safaa Karaki Aldwaik received the Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for her geographic information systems work with the City of Ramallah, Palestine. She received her award from Esri President Jack Dangermond during the Esri User Conference 2015 in San Diego, July 22. Aldwaik is the Director of Geographic…
Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has acquired the Holocaust Numismatic Collection of Robert Messing ’59, of Woodstock, New York, and is making it available to students and faculty for research and classroom use beginning next month. During the Holocaust, money issued in concentration camps and ghettos was part of a complex…
Clark University has appointed Professor Edward R. Carr as director of its Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE). Professor Carr comes to Clark from the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, where he served as the associate director of the Walker Institute for International and Area Studies and director of the…
Clark University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) was among 50 business schools nationwide represented at a forum on women in business hosted by The White House. The White House Working Families Business Schools Convening, organized by the Council on Women and Girls and the Council of Economic Advisers, explored ways business schools can collaborate with…
Clark University has been recognized by the Princeton Review as one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education. Clark is included in the 24th annual edition of the annual college guide, “The Best 380 Colleges: 2016 Edition.” Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges, and four colleges outside the United States, are…
Incoming class reflects 87 percent hike in applications over three years Clark University will welcome its largest class in history to the Worcester campus this fall. “Thanks to the efforts of the entire Clark campus community and the dedicated work of our Admissions staff, Clark is enrolling the largest and academically strongest class in its…
