Clark is featured in the “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges,” a new, comprehensive guidebook that recognizes the impressive environmental and sustainability programs at universities and colleges across the country. The Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), released the guide, which features the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges,…
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Academic Commons project receives planning award
Clark’s Academic Commons at Goddard Library has received an award in the “Building Additions Category” from the the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). The Academic Commons at Goddard Library was designed by Steven M. Foote, of Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects, Boston, and built by Consigli Construction Co., Inc., of Milford. SCUP awards are highly…
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Former Ohio governor, diplomat Celeste to speak at Commencement
Clark will hold its 105th Commencement on Sunday, May 23, on the Jefferson Academic Center Green. The procession, from the Kneller Athletic Center to the Campus Green, begins at 1:15 p.m., and ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. Richard F. Celeste, president of Colorado College, will deliver the Commencement address. For further information about the ceremony…
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GIS innovator Eastman receives Distinguished Career Award
Scholar, GIS software innovator honored at annual AAG meeting — Clark University professor of geography J. Ronald Eastman, developer of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software, was presented with the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of American Geographers Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISSG), during the 2010 Annual AAG Meeting (April 14-18) in Washington, D.C.
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Clark scientist to lead NASA research on sea ice in Arctic
With support of a $735,192 NASA grant, Clark geographer and research scientist Karen Frey will lead a major NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program project from aboard icebreakers in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Two of her Ph.D. students will also be aboard the ICESCAPE expedition.
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Steinbrecher fellow's Nez Perce exhibit opens at Strassler Center
Last summer, Clark University senior Mikal Brotnov used the funding he received from the Steinbrecher Fellowship Program to travel to Seattle, Washington and Kamiah, Idaho, to research the Nez Perce Nation and to photographically document the rituals of the Nimiipuu (as the Nez Perce call themselves). Brotnov, who grew up on the Nez Perce reservation,…
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Students’ Thrift Store plan wins annual Big Idea innovation contest
Clark University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) program recently announced the winners of this year’s U-Reka: The Big Idea Contest. The winning student-sponsored ideas: a campus thrift store, improved garden facilities, and a new radio program, were chosen in an online student vote as having the greatest potential to positively affect life in the Clark community.…
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Strassler Center offers access to Shoah Foundation visual archives
Clark University among 25 institutions worldwide linked to 52,000 Holocaust testimonies Clark University, 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…
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Clark students work for disabled during spring trip to Brazil
Twelve Clark University undergraduate 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…
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Workshop Considers State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research
The Clark University Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host a ground-breaking workshop on the Armenian Genocide, on Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10. An open discussion by key participants, titled “The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later – Academic and Personal Reflections,” will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 9.
