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Natasha Rivas '24 deepened her skills even further during a semester abroad in Osaka, Japan, funded through a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.

Recipients of the 2024 President's Achievement Awards for Inclusive Excellence are Oliver McCormick '24, Amy Daly Gardner, MSPC '05, the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture, and Women's and Gender Studies. Abbie Goldberg, professor of psychology and the director of Women's and Gender Studies, received the Distinguished Inclusive Excellence Award, as did McCormick.

Dillon Remuck '25, a computer science and interactive media major, is a researcher at the University's Strategic Analytics and Institutional Research office (STAIR).

Clark University has announced the student speakers for the May 20 Commencement ceremony. Laila El-Samra '24, a biochemistry major and student leader who is planning a career in dentistry, will address her fellow undergraduates. Gabe Spindel '23, MBA '24, a second-generation Clarkie preparing to launch his career in Washington, D.C., will speak to members of the graduate school.

A group of Clark students have received a $10,000 Projects for Peace award to document the experiences of young people in Central Mexico as they deal with the impacts and uncertainty of climate change.

A group of undergraduate students presented their scholarship at the 18th Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, held at Clark for the first time since its inception in 2002.

Emily Clarke '24 has worked on cataloging a collection of Nazi propaganda postcards donated to the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Emily Abney '24, an art history major, recently returned from a research trip to Venice, where she studied art central to her thesis.

Clark has chosen Harvest Table Culinary Group as the University's new hospitality partner.

One student from Vermont, one student from Maine, and one idea to create an app that teaches teens communication skills and gives parents a reprieve from worry. Meet ParentLock.

Sixteen Clark artists, representing 12 majors, have artworks featured in the 20th Annual ArtsWorcester College Show, an exhibition open to all undergraduate college students studying or residing in Massachusetts.

Clark teams begin New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference playoff run.

Twenty student artists are the first inducted into Clark's Kappa Pi art honor society.

Many of us hear about cyanobacteria when summertime blooms of toxic blue-green algae lead to beach closings at freshwater ponds and lakes. But cyanobacteria are not all bad - those growing in the ocean produce more than 12 percent of the oxygen we breathe, according to Clark Biology Professor Nathan Ahlgren.

"Let me tell you about my typical day." Sajed Ziade '26 suggests this as the best approach to understanding just what it takes to be a gamer at an elite level.

The Clark community gathered for a discussion with Curtis Chin, author of the memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant."

Career development, workplace tours, and peeks into day-to-day job functions are all on the agenda during Career Trek trips, an opportunity for students to visit companies that employ Clark alumni.

In early September, I promised my friend Brien Rondeau '24, president of the Clark branch of the International Game Developers Association (IDGA), that I would participate in a game jam before the semester ended. Game jams are events in which a team tries to build a video game from scratch, usually within 48 hours, and the IDGA typically holds three jams per semester.

Musician Lawson Dunford '23, MBA '24 called upon his connections in the Clark community to find instrumentalists, producers, mixers, and a faculty advisor to help bring his album "Flower of Life" to fruition.

During transfer student orientation last fall, Brien Rondeau '24 and Alex Supron '25 felt a spark of inspiration. They planned to resurrect the University's branch of The International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a club that game design students say is one of the most significant assets for networking and finding jobs in the industry.

The Men of Color Alliance has become an essential space for Clark men of color to share experiences, hash out challenges, celebrate achievements, and, as one member puts it, just "be up."

Grace Dowling '24 was working at her on-campus job when another student stopped in front of her desk and asked a question. "Are you diabetic?" As a matter of fact, Dowling told her fellow Clarkie, she is.

The Clark University Choir, along with the Clark University Symphony Orchestra, will take to the stage at Mechanics Hall on Saturday, Nov. 18, for a staged concert of "Turandot," the final opera by Giacomo Puccini.

From knitting to ceramics, drawing to jewelry-making, the Clark Craft Studio is a place to refine or learn skills, or simply enjoy a respite from academic and work routines.

A cohort of sophomores helping faculty design Clark University's new honors experience is keeping an important question in mind: How can we create an above-and-beyond academic program that draws intellectually curious students while adhering to the Clarkie ethos of inclusivity?

Autumn Powers '27 and Robert Matzkin '26 are among the current Clark students who, while they were in high school, participated in Clark's summer coding-intensive camp. The program is for high school juniors and seniors interested in pursuing game design in higher education and is meant to offer a taste of what it's like to be in college.

ClarkFEST Fall 2023 celebrated the intellectual and creative energies of Clark students, and their collaboration with faculty mentors, through an exhibition of posters and creative works.

Among the ClarkFEST participants is Carter Lee '24, who will present "Belonging: A Photographic Exploration," an exhibition that explores the concept of being a queer, trans, first-generation Korean American person.

Professor Amy Richter and Molly Kessler '24 each received a 2022 John W. Lund Clark Community Achievement Award, which recognizes the contributions made to the Worcester community by faculty, students, or staff members at Clark University.

English major Ian Quinn '26 is among a passionate community of student poets who quietly write and rewrite for campus publications - or their own pleasure - and motivate one another to improve their craft.