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As part of its campus transformation, Clark has refurbished the Little Center,
home to Michelson Theater and the undergraduate theater program.

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context of a research experience that addresses challenges on a global scale.

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97%

Of undergraduate alumni are employed, in school, or engaged in voluntary service
6 months after graduation

Career Outcomes

$514 million

Clark University endowment (as of June 30, 2021)

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EDITOR’S PICKS

Student Internships

OPENING THE DOOR TO A NONPROFIT CAREER



With the support of a Barth Internship Award, Na’ama Sarfati-Magill ’23 served
as an intake counselor at a nonprofit for youth.



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First-Year Experience

CLASS OF 2026 TACKLES DYSTOPIAN SCI FI



This year’s Common Academic Experience centers on a single text: Octavia
Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.”



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Student Internships

CAREER EXPLORATION WEEK GETS TECHNICAL



A panel of students advises their peers about internships in software
engineering, data science, game design, and other fields.



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MORE NEWS FROM CLARKNOW
Wednesday, October 26


PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE AT CLARK


DANIEL ZIBLATT ON ‘HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE’

Clark University’s Presidential Lecture returns with Harvard Professor Daniel
Ziblatt, co-author of the bestselling book “How Democracies Die,” 5 to 6:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, October 26, in Tilton Hall.

Presidential Lecture


DEEPENING PERSPECTIVES

Research reaches to the core of the Clark experience.


HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM LEADS TO COVID DEATHS

Sociologist Rosalie Torres Stone and biologists Nathan Ahlgren and Philip
Bergmann take a deep dive into the pandemic’s impact on minoritized racial
groups, identifying the “need to confront structural racism on multiple fronts
to address health disparities.”

Read the journal article


THE WHISPERING WORLD OF ASMR

Some people feel a tingle after watching someone whisper in a YouTube video.
Hugh Manon, professor of screen studies, and Shuo Niu, professor of computer
science, explore the world of ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response.

Explore the sensation


‘WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO CREATE CHANGE’

Professor Eric DeMeulenaere is working with organizers in Worcester to create
the Audre Lorde Transformative Art School, named for the late poet, feminist,
and civil rights activist, to challenge the standard approach to education.

Read about change


WHERE CLIMATE CHANGE MEETS NATIONAL SECURITY

Ed Carr, director of the International Development, Community, and Engagement
department, brings ethnographic expertise to the National Academies’ Climate
Security Roundtable, established at the direction of Congress.

Learn about the roundtable


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In Session This Fall

Flexibility is built into our liberal arts curriculum, allowing you to select
from compelling courses on diverse topics.

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GEOG 020
American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places
Examine the history and modern processes of urbanization — from the development
of North American cities to the experience of neighborhoods within those spaces.
Historical Perspective
MUSC 141
Computers and Music
Take a historical and project-based approach to computers as a musical tool as
you learn multitrack digital recording and mixing, sound synthesis, and more.
Aesthetic Perspective
MATH 112
The Mathematics of Voting and Social Choice
Explore advantages and disadvantages of voting systems from a mathematical
perspective as you investigate issues of polling, gerrymandering, and
representation.
First-Year Intensive Courses
ID 125
Tales from the Far Side: Contemporary Dilemmas in Development
What is so compelling about the idea of development? Why does it ail much of the
so-called Third World? Explore these issues and more as you study geopolitics.
Global Comparative Perspective
ENT 264
Community-Based Entrepreneurship
Hone your entrepreneurial skills by partnering with local businesses in the Main
South neighborhood to help support ongoing operations and business development.
Problems of Practice Courses
Liberal Arts + Game Design

The Becker School of Design & Technology at Clark hosts the world’s No. 3-ranked
Game Design program, according to Princeton Review.

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Kreenjala Pyakurel ’22 was drawn to Clark University for two reasons: the
University’s small size and its contributing role in creating the birth control
pill
As someone passionate about reproductive and sexual health, that connection made
Clark, and Worcester, feel like a clear choice for Pyakurel. This summer, she
took the first step toward a career in public and reproductive health as a
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There’s some fresh #clarkitecture on campus
The Little Center and Michelson Theater were transformed over the summer with a
new entrance, vibrant lobby, and flexible performance space — re-energizing and
reimagining the 58-year-old building.

“The Little Center has been completely modernized," says Professor Kevin
McGerigle, technical director. "On the performance side, we’ve got new lighting,
new sound, a new grid, reimagined floor plan. From a quality-of-life side, there
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been inundated by numbers, from
case counts to deaths, layoffs to business closures. A trio of Clark faculty —
biology professors Nathan Ahlgren and Philip Bergmann and sociology professor
Rosalie Torres Stone — used the mountain of available data to collaborate on an
interdisciplinary research project, exploring the progress of the pandemic over
time and how it has affected different demographic groups
Their study, “Multiple measures of ...Read More

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First-Year Move-In Day. Welcome home, Clarkies! #ClarkU2026

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Latine/Latinx Heritage Month is in full swing and Clarkies are dancing their way
through the festivities with beginner Latin dance lessons from @tumbaolatindance
and Clark’s own @salsaencendida!

Join us tomorrow, Oct. 7, in the Higgins Atrium on the second floor of Dana
Commons to learn salsa during our final class of the series! Reserve your spot
on Clark Engage or the CORQ app.

Sponsored by @clarku_diversity and @clarkisea.

#ClarkU #LatineLatinxHeritageMonth

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Crissan Clayton ’23, an economics and psychology double major, launched her
study this summer with a survey of Caribbean immigrant parents of children ages
5–18, tapping into her own connections in Boston’s Caribbean immigrant community
and through social media
The survey is assessing the respondents’ experiences in the U.S., reasons for
their immigration, the impacts that immigration has had on their relationship
with their children, and whether they access outside mental health resources.
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Psychology major Ben Wolff ’23 loves working with children and researching the
importance of play on their development. But do the shows children watch on TV
influence how they play?

On this episode of the “Challenge. Change.” podcast, Wolff describes the
possible connection between programs and the playground.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Df6uVZ

#ClarkU #ClarkConnectsYou

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We're ready to welcome our new Clarkies and their families to campus this
morning
Happy Move-In Day, Class of 2026! While some students arrived early for
pre-orientation programs over the past few weeks, most of the incoming class
will move in today.

Follow along throughout the day on Clark’s Instagram stories — @ClarkUniversity
— and be sure to tag us in your photos and share using #ClarkU2026.

We can’t wait to welcome transfer students back to campus tomorrow, followed by
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The Shaich Family Alumni and Student Engagement Center aglow at twilight.

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Yesterday marked the beginning of Latine/Latinx Heritage Month. The Clark
community came together to celebrate with a kickoff ¡Fiesta! event in Red Square
featuring Latin food, music, dancing, and more!

Check out these highlights from the celebration and visit Clark Engage, download
the CORQ app, and follow @ClarkISEA for more Latine/Latinx Heritage Month
events.

#ClarkU #LatineLatinxHeritageMonth

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Clark students working with a trio of Biology Department professors have been
canvassing the Worcester watershed this summer, on a mission to understand the
impact urbanization has on the ecosystem
The project, led by professors Nathan Ahlgren, Philip Bergmann, and Javier
Tabima Restrepo, involves studying microbes in the water and in the mud, sand,
and gravel below the water surface. The researchers are also assessing the
health of frogs in the ecosystem because amphibians, which can breathe ...Read
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How did the lizard cross the road? It depends
In a new study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, Philip Bergmann, professor of biology, investigated how a lizard’s
movement is related to its body form — fully limbed and short-bodied, limbless
and long-bodied, or somewhere in between.

To study body–limb coordination in diverse lizards, Bergmann and his colleagues
used biological experiments, a geometric theory of locomotion, and even a lizard
robot. ...Read More

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In Ousmane Power-Greene’s powerful novel, “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,”
the kidnapping of a Black college professor by a white supremacist launches a
searing examination of the battle for racial justice and the efforts by some to
halt its progress.

Read a Q&A with Power-Greene, professor of history and program director of
Africana Studies, and listen to him discuss his work on Clark's “Challenge.
Change.” podcast: https://bit.ly/3DTpw4F

#ClarkU

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We’ve known it. U.S. News and World Report has affirmed it — Clark University is
among the top small research universities in the nation
Clark is ranked one of the top 10 National Universities with enrollments of
5,000 and under on U.S. News & World Report's 2022-2023 Best Colleges list:
https://bit.ly/3RZPIyu.

We are among the top 100 National Universities overall and ranked #38 in Best
Value Schools, #41 for Best Undergraduate Teaching, and #53 in Top Programs to
Look For: Undergraduate ...Read More

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Tomorrow morning, we welcome 705 new students to campus — the largest first-year
class in Clark history
These incoming Clarkies hail from 34 states and 27 countries, and boast an array
of achievements and honors.

A student appeared on the Gordon Ramsey show “MasterChef Junior”; another
competed on the Belarus National Gymnastics Team. An incoming Clarkie co-founded
a nonprofit that 3D-prints prosthetic hands for children in Haiti. Another sews
historically accurate colonial and Victorian ...Read More

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Music Professor John Aylward’s opera “Oblivion” is being turned into a movie!

A number of Clarkies (including Professor Cailin Marcel Manson, shown above)
were in the Grind over the past few weeks filming the story of two wanderers
journeying through Dante’s Purgatory.

: Photo by Stephen DiRado.

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