Academic Symposium inspires discussion on consequential concerns 

Digital technology empowers us to face many modern challenges, but does it pose its own unique challenge in the ways we interact as humans?

Is the assault on Ukraine only the latest example of an ongoing pernicious threat to global democracy?

What does the future portend for all of us if global climate change goes unchecked?

Members of Clark University’s faculty from across a range of disciplines came together today to address these and other pressing questions during the Academic Symposium, a series of eight discussions and presentations held in Razzo Hall and Jefferson 320 on April 29.

The Symposium, part of the events celebrating the Inauguration of President David B. Fithian, highlighted the distinctive expertise, impactful research, and creative talents of our faculty, and it inspired lively conversations about the social, political, cultural, and environmental imperatives of the day.

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• Climate change work must extend beyond research
• Professors explore counternarratives of design and innovation
• Faculty put advanced digital technology to use in the classroom and lab
• Symposium session addresses Clark’s impact in the community
• The fraying of democracy is a global problem, professors say
• ‘The truth is what we see on the ground’
• Faculty researched, and learned from, the pandemic
• Life, and death, considered through the lens