Clark looks back at 2023

As we prepare to welcome 2024, join us to revisit some of our favorite stories and photos from 2023.

December 18, 2023

A student wearing a tie-dyed lab coat working with lab samples

Professor Michael Swartz works on computer with a student

Animated about learning

Professor Michael Schwartz brings added dimensions to the Becker School of Design and Technology

Male onthophagus taurus dung beetle from evolutionary biologist Erin McCullough's lab

Sex and death. A love story.

Evolutionary biologist Erin McCullough studies the mating rituals of dung beetles to understand how climate change might affect biodiversity

A group of people gather at a climate station in Hawaii

A climate change signal in everything we see

Climatologist Abby Frazier describes the perfect storm of conditions that led to Maui wildfires

A rivers filled with multicolored boats, Mexico

‘Water is life’: Three-year NSF study in Mexico brings multi-pronged approach to climate impacts

Hamed Alemohammad speaks at the Geospatial Analytics Workshop

Conference at Clark puts new Center for Geospatial Analytics ‘on the map’

A hitter making contact with the ball, with mathematical symbols superimposed over the image

Who’s on first? Maybe a stats whiz

Students on rocks near ocean looking at marine life

Sparking curiosity: Students help faculty build Clark’s new honors experience

A student wearing a hooded rain jacket holds up a red berry during an ecological restoration project outing.

University Park Campus School students work with a teacher in the class

Clark widens University Park Partnership Scholarship Zone

Program offers more Worcester residents an opportunity to attend Clark tuition-free

Sophie Gill with TRACKS Magazine.

Clark senior makes TRACKS throughout Main South

Sophie Gill ’23 launches community arts and literary magazine

Student sells juice

‘Entrepreneurship can transform lives’

Jack Foley Way Ceremony

Jack Foley Way is unveiled

Clark students in line at a food truck during a Saturday evening event

A group of students laughing and smiling during a gathering event of the Men of Color Alliance at Clark University

‘We all connect here’

The Men of Color Alliance shares experiences, perspectives, and flowers

Cailin Marcen Manson conducts a combined choir including the Clark University Choir in a performance of Verdi's Requiem at Carnegie Hall.

Clark’s conductor and choir make Carnegie Hall debuts

Cailin Marcel Manson celebrates 20 years with the baton

Grace Dowling ’24 and Aine Sheehan ’24

'I feel more seen and heard'

Diabetics of Clark is shaped by shared experiences and a desire to educate

Panel of the Decades

‘Learn to celebrate who you are’

Dan Gillooly '25 helps hang Professor John Garton's Digital Bomarzo Show.

Preserving the past through his lens”

MiKayla Dotson at the Multicultural Graduation celebration

Mikayla Dotson ’23 wants to remove barriers to mental health care

Two students sitting in chairs talking

New poetry journal

A year in pictures

Listen to the most memorable moments this year from the Challenge. Change. Podcast.

Challenge. Change. podcast

Photos: Steven King, director of photography / university photographer; contributing photographer Moses Millman ’24