Clark University News

Stephen B. Young of Princeton is expecting about 20 people for Thanksgiving today.

The town has more than a $250,000 earmarked for affordable-housing initiatives, and it has added a new part-time staff member to help determine where that money would be best used.

" The Waterfalls " flowed in the East River. "The Gates" snaked through Central Park.

Their paths might never have crossed if it hadn't been for a gut feeling Carol Stockmal had about the house on Woodford Street.

When the Worcester-based composer Joseph Summer agreed to take over running Commonwealth Opera of Northampton earlier this year, he knew he needed someone working alongside him whom he could trust, who could stage opera, and who shared his aesthetic vision.

Nuclea Biotechnologies LLC has raised $3.4 million in private equity funding that it will use to fund its diagnostic and clinical laboratories at Clark University in Worcester.

For all those unaware that lesbians take better care of their cats than most straight people take care of their children, research has now officially shown that "Lesbians Make 'Better Parents.'" Research at Birkbeck College, part of London University, and Clark University in Massachusetts suggests that same-sex couples make good parents because ...

Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do better in life than the offspring of heterosexual couples.

Famed for his live shows, Dan Deacon is a musicians who doesn't play onstage, but in the audience.

A 51-year-old father of two who worked in a French call center threw himself from a highway bridge in late September.

People like to think of their favorite artists, writers, or thinkers as struggling on the outskirts, misunderstood by their contemporaries and cast aside by the establishment.

Clark University junior Allison C. Schenkler of Port Washington, New York, is spending her fall semester interning at the Unicorn Theatre in London, England through Clark's London Internship Program, and is sharing her experiences through her blog .

Where I grew up, the issue of whether gays and lesbians made OK parents was a non-starter. In the liberal enclave of Berkeley, Calif., the answer is considered so obvious the question almost seems rhetorical: Of course there are both "good" and "bad" homosexual parents -- just as there are both "good" and "bad" heterosexual parents.

Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

Clark University President John Bassett will become the next president of Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash., following his retirement from Clark in July, he announced today.

Jason La Mountain is originally from New York City, but he moved to Worcester in 2002 to attend Clark University.

So many gay couples today have kids that it has become a cultural phenomenon - there's even a new TV show about a modern family that includes a gay couple with an adopted baby.

It will be interesting to see whether the Roberts court invigorates the left as the Warren court did the right.

The U.S. National Mediation Board has proposed a sweeping rule change that would base the outcome of union elections at airlines and rail companies on the majority approval of people who vote, a move that could increase the odds of unions winning such contests.

In 1921, when he was six years old, Souren Antoyan was sent from his occupied homeland of Armenia to spend the next eight years in orphanages, including the Australian-run Ghazir Orphanage, in Beirut.