Clark University was founded in 1887 as the first all-graduate institution in the country. Today, Clark promotes a rigorous liberal arts curriculum within the context of a research experience that addresses challenges on a global scale.
(see more)Clark University was founded in 1887 as the first all-graduate institution in the country. Today, Clark promotes a rigorous liberal arts curriculum within the context of a research experience that addresses challenges on a global scale.
Noah Katz '26 was ready for his close-up
Noah Katz '26 needs no thesaurus when asked to describe what it was like to walk onto the field at Fenway Park and umpire a game in front of a sellout crowd of 37,000 raucous fans. He easily comes up with a host of adjectives, "incredible," "cool," and "surreal" among them.

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2024 Jun 24
Inclusive excellence is a community effort
Progress on the gender-neutral bathroom initiative, curricula that teach cross-cultural skills, and allyship and advocacy have earned members of the Clark community recognition.

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2024 Jun 10
'Press for justice now, rather than justice delayed'
Clark University awarded 1,376 degrees to the Class of 2024.

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2024 Jun 10
Bridging the cultural divide through language
Natasha Rivas '24 deepened her skills even further during a semester abroad in Osaka, Japan, funded through a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.

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2024 May 20
'Inclusive excellence is a community effort'
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.

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2024 May 20
'If you're having fun, then why not challenge yourself'
Dillon Remuck '25, a computer science and interactive media major, is a researcher at the University's Strategic Analytics and Institutional Research office (STAIR).

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2024 May 13
Students awarded $10K to document, 'uplift voices' of those impacted by climate change
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.

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2024 May 1
'The play's the thing': Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference returns to Clark
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.

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2024 Apr 29
'The best way to challenge convention is to challenge yourself'
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.

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2024 May 6
Students were at the table for decision on Dining Services change
Clark has chosen Harvest Table Culinary Group as the University's new hospitality partner.

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2024 Apr 8
Emily Clarke '24 unmasks the propaganda behind the postcards
Emily Clarke '24 has worked on cataloging a collection of Nazi propaganda postcards donated to the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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2024 Apr 8
'You can see the painter's thoughts through the brushstrokes'
Emily Abney '24, an art history major, recently returned from a research trip to Venice, where she studied art central to her thesis.

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2024 Apr 1
Call your mother!
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.

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2024 Mar 25
16 Clark artists featured in ArtsWorcester College Show
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.

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2024 Mar 25
Clark teams begin NEWMAC playoff run this week
Clark teams begin New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference playoff run.

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2024 Feb 26
'Bringing art into the world'
Twenty student artists are the first inducted into Clark's Kappa Pi art honor society.

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2024 Feb 26
Funded by $1.1 million in NSF grants, researchers dive into undersea war of the microbes
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.

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2024 Feb 20

Fall 2023 Dean's List
Clark University announces students named to the Fall 2023 Dean's List.

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2024 Feb 16
Curtis Chin puts everything he's learned on the menu
The Clark community gathered for a discussion with Curtis Chin, author of the memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant."

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2024 Jan 29
Trekking from college to career
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.

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2024 Jan 22
All in a day's play
"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.

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2024 Feb 5
Two days, one game
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.

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2024 Jan 8
'We all connect here'
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."

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2023 Nov 20
Clark musician ready for 'Flower of Life' to bloom
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.

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2023 Nov 20
Making the next generation of game developers
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.

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2023 Nov 20
'I feel more seen and heard when my friends ask me about my life as a diabetic'
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.

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2023 Nov 13
It's 'Turandot' for the win
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.

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2023 Nov 13
Clark creatives follow their art
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.

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2023 Nov 13
Sparking curiosity: Students help faculty build Clark's new honors experience
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?

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2023 Nov 6
From coding camp to college career
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.

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2023 Nov 6