Description: Six cans of collector's beer to trade. They're not for sale. Make me a trade offer of something of equal goodness. I don't know the ages of the beers, but you can see they're plenty old. And, sorry, but the Billy Beer is empty. The others are full of certainly good beer.

Contact/Seller: Kay Hartnett

Contact Info: x7746

Description: In good condition, but hasn't been ridden in years. Needs a cleanup, and maybe a tuneup. Needs new tires. Yes, it's a boy's bike with pink accents. But pink is the new cool.

Asking Price: $10 buys you this cool bicycle.

Contact/Seller: Kay Hartnett

Contact Info: x7746

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Wingood joined Clark in 1995 and was involved with the University's initiative to partner with the Worcester Public Schools to create the University Park Campus School (UPCS), an innovative, nationally-recognized school for grades 7-12 in Worcester's Main South neighborhood. Since it opened in 1997, more than 95 percent  of the school's graduates have gone on to attend college. The school has a dropout rate of zero.

Wingood has long challenged some of the prevailing approaches to the college admissions process. During his time at Clark, the University became an institutional sponsor of the Education Conservancy, which is dedicated to making the college admissions process an extension of the educational process. The Education Conservancy is highly critical of the public emphasis on college rankings such as those published in U.S. News & World Report.

The college search should focus on the student, Wingood says. "It seems obvious, but is all too rare in what often becomes a frenzy to get into the highest ranked colleges and universities with the most name recognition" he adds.

Wingood looks forward to the opportunity to be more directly involved in making a difference in the lives of students for whom college is not a forgone conclusion.

"I love what I have been able to do at Clark and I wanted to find a way to make attending a place like ours possible for students and families who may not have considered pursuing academic excellence and higher education a realistic option" he said.

"There are many colleges and universities that provide opportunities for intellectual and personal growth, but Clark remains distinctive in its power to change the lives of its students. My own experience with the students coming to Clark has confirmed my sense that Clark does change lives. There's something special that goes on here and it's marvelous to watch" he said.

For more information about the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering, go to http://www.discovermase.org/.

For more information, contact Mott Linn at x7572. Thank you.

P.S. Remember to save your "summer reading" books to donate to us, too.

Description: Queen sofa sleeper. Micro-suede fabric. Purchased from Bob's Furniture. 2.5 years old. No kids, no pets, excellent condition.

Asking Price: $380

Contact/Seller: Dalya

Contact Info: 601-320-2586

Horner presented his winning paper on the emerging geography of India's pharmaceutical firms in the global economy at the annual AAG conference in Las Vegas March 22-27. Several Clark graduates, undergraduates and faculty joined some 7,000 geographers, GIS specialists and environmental scientists from around the world who attended the conference to discuss the latest in research, policy and applications in geography, sustainability and GIScience.

Horner's dissertation focuses on the Indian Big Pharma multinational enterprises. "The industry has been undergoing substantial restructuring in recent years, and I hope to understand the organizational and geographical dynamics involved," he said.

Last year, Horner received the John Henry Thompson '41 Endowed Summer Research Fellowship in Geography, which he said helped support him while he conducted the pre-dissertation work that formed the basis of his paper.

The Ethnic Geography Special Group judged papers based on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to scholarship in ethnic geography and overall effectiveness. Horner was awarded a $250 prize, a certificate, a ticket to the AAG awards banquet and formal recognition at the banquet and in the AAG Newsletter.

Professor Heather Wiatrowski was selected by the Education Department of the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to take part on behalf of Clark in the Undergraduate Research Program in Microbial Genome Annotation. The program enables undergraduate life sciences students at Clark to analyze bacteria genomes as a new way of teaching bioscience curriculum standards.

"Students involved in this program will learn to use the same bioinformatics tools that are being used by professional annotators at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute," said Susan Foster, chair of the Clark Biology department. "The professional annotators will then use the students' work. Not only will the students be trained in state-of-the-art methods, but they will be able to contribute to a national research project."

For more information about Wiatrowski, go to http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=739

About the Joint Genome Institute: The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute was created in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in DNA sequencing, informatics, and technology development pioneered at the U.S. Department of Energy genome centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

For more information, visit http://www.jgi.doe.gov/.

For more information about the Joint Genome Institute, go to http://www.jgi.doe.gov/.

The Alumni Association presented to Donna Fiore '81 this year's Outstanding Secondary Educator Award on Sunday, May 17. The award recognizes secondary-school teachers for the critical role they play in preparing students for higher education.

Fiore has taught American history, world history and Russian history at Leicester High School for 26 years. In 2004, she was recognized as a "Christa's Teacher" by the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Center for Education and Teaching Excellence at Framingham State College. She was awarded the Blakeslee Fellowship and Teacher of the Year Award by Clark's Teachers Center for Global Studies in 1988.

For more information, go to http://www.clarku.edu/offices/publicaffairs/news/press/articles/osea2009.cfm

Sunuwar wrote this grant proposal as part of his final project in the Grant Writing for Community Developers course with IDCE adjunct faculty member Dorothy (Dodi) Swope last fall. For the class, students were required to write a real grant for a local organization. Sunuwar was aware of GBVHC and inquired about its proposal needs. He then selected the Immigrant and Refugee Services program because it related to his interest in social exclusion and marginalized development.

For Sunuwar, originally from Nepal, the funding proposal touches on his passion for addressing the needs for those most vulnerable populations.

Sunuwar explains: "Recently, many refugees including Bhutanese are coming to Worcester as immigrants. I found that these refugees are facing difficulties seeking health care in hospitals and health centers in Worcester because of language barriers and lack of knowledge about the U.S. health system. Because of these barriers, they are vulnerable to increased health risks. ... "This situation really motivated me to write this grant proposal."

For more information about GBVHC, go to: http://www.gbvhc.org/ .

The International Development and Social Change program is part of the International Development, Community and Environment Department (IDCE).

Is Freud still relevant a century after laying out the course of psychoanalysis?

This fall, in celebration of the centennial of the five landmark lectures Sigmund Freud presented at Clark in 1909, some of the world's leading scientists will gather here to explore the workings of the mind and new developments in the study of brain and genetics, the psychological approach, and how thought, motivation and emotion play a role in behavior.

The academic conference, from Oct. 3 to 5, is the centerpiece of Clark's centennial commemoration, "Great Minds Come to Clark -- Freud Revisited." Arts events, cultural collaborations with the city of Worcester, and campus community and student-organized activities are also being planned for the 2009-2010 academic year.

More information is available online, at http://www.clarku.edu/freudcentennial.

For a full listing of Clark events, visit www.clarku.edu/calendar

Faculty or staff member must have a valid Clark ID card with them at the time of admission. Stop by HR to borrow an admission card.

Museum Hours: Open third Thursday of month until 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Check out special events/exhibits at www.worcesterart.org

To provide a mechanism for distributing announcements that are relevant to the faculty/staff community during the summer, the HR office will temporarily reinstitute the former "HR Digest of Messages" beginning Monday, June 1. This is a collection of messages that will be sent out in one e-mail; our intent is not to bombard you with a series of individual messages. Depending on the volume and timeliness of announcements, this may or may not be sent out weekly. 

If your department has information you believe should be communicated to faculty and/or staff during the summer, please send text to hr@clarku.edu by noon on the Thursday prior to the date sent.

HR reserves the right to edit or decline announcements that are not relevant to faculty and/or staff.

If you have any questions, please contact HR at x7294.

Minter, an executive-in-residence and a Fellow in the Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, will deliver the Commencement address.

From 1984-2003, Minter served as president and executive director of The Cleveland Foundation, a public charity dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Greater Cleveland and the original and second-largest community foundation in the nation. Under his direction, the Cleveland Foundation became the first non-coastal community foundation to make AIDS grants. Minter led the Foundation's efforts to extend services for donors, expand donor outreach to the African-American community, improve Cleveland's public schools and systematically revitalize Cleveland's neighborhoods and lakefront.

Other Honorary Degree recipients will be Lois B. Green and David Ward.

Green is an independent consultant for a number of central Massachusetts nonprofit organizations and a member of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty, serving as the director of Geriatric Community Clerkship.

She is on the boards of the Fallon Clinic Foundation, Bet Shalom Housing for the Elderly (which she helped found), the Central Massachusetts Partnership to Improve Care at the End of Life and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau. 

Ward is former president of the American Council on Education (ACE), serving from 2001 to 2008. Under his leadership, ACE was the major coordinating agent for higher education, maintained and strengthened its efforts to expand equity and diversity, internationalization, lifelong learning, and institutional effectiveness. As president of ACE, he was appointed to the Council of the United Nations University and to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, convened by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

For more information about Honorary Degree recipients, see http://www.clarku.edu/offices/publicaffairs/news/press/articles/commencement_092009.cfm

We were all taught in school to never end a sentence in a preposition. While many grammar purists still insist on this rule, most agree that it's just not feasible. As the English language evolves, so do the rules of grammar. A quote often attributed to Winston Churchill states: "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." There are times when it's necessary to end a sentence in a preposition. You should do your best to eliminate unnecessary prepositions, however, whether they fall at the end of the sentence or within it.

Examples:

Incorrect: Where did you get your new car at?
Correct: Where did you get your new car?  

Incorrect: Put your book up on the shelf when you finish reading it.
Correct: Put your book on the shelf when you finish reading it.  

Incorrect: Where did Jeff go to?
Correct: Where did Jeff go?  

Incorrect: We will finish the project later on.
Correct: We will finish the project later.  

Comma usage

Using the word "so"

Use a comma before the word "so" if you are using it to mean "therefore."

Example: "We were early for the meeting, so we went for coffee.

Do not use a comma after the word "so" if you are using it to mean "so that."

Example: We arrived early so we would have time to get some coffee.

Using the word "please:"

When you begin a sentence with the word "please," it is not set off by a comma.

Example: Please let me know if you need any help.

When you end a sentence with the word "please," however, it is set off by a comma.

Example: Let me know if you need any help, please.  

When you end a sentence with the word "please," it is technically part of the phrase if you please. The words "if you" are understood and usually left out.   

  Beware of the comma splice  

We’ve looked a lot over the past few months at the proper way to use commas. Now we'll look at an example of when you should not use a comma. A comma splice, also known as a run-on sentence, is two complete sentences joined by a comma.

Example:  We were having a good time, we didn’t want to leave.  

The above sentence conveys one thought, but it is two complete sentences. There are a few ways to fix that. You can make it two separate sentences.

 Example:  We were having a good time. We didn’t want to leave. 

 You can add a conjunction.

Example:  We were having a good time, and we didn’t want to leave.  

You can join them with a semi-colon.

Example:  We were having a good time; we didn’t want to leave.  

 Reticent vs. reluctant  

These two words do not mean the same thing. Reticence is a form of reluctance. To be reticent is to be reluctant to come forward or to speak up.

 Example: John’s reticence about the status of the project was not appreciated by his co-workers.

 Tricky nouns

Nouns that end in the letters “ics” sound plural, but they can take a singular or plural verb, depending on how you use them. Words such as ethics, politics and statistics, for example, can throw even the most seasoned writer. When referring to an area of study, you should use a singular verb.

Examples:   Ethics is a popular field of study at the school.                                                 

                 Politics is a complicated subject.  

When they refer to the practice of an individual or group, however, they take a plural verb.

 Examples:  His ethics are questionable.                         

                        The office politics are getting out of control.

Junior Adam LeFebvre is the winner of Clark's first Clark Voices Student Video Contest. Clark students voted for their favorite entries on the Clark Voices multimedia site, declaring LeFebvre's spoof  "Call Yourself a Clarkie" the winner. Contest entries had to be one minute or less and about the topic "You know you're a Clarkie when" As the winner, LeFebvre received a Flip video camera, one of the newest pocket-sized point-and-shoot video cameras on the market.

LeFebvre, who is double majoring in communications (with a focus in media studies) and theater, and minoring in French, says he has been interested in film "ever since I signed on with an independent film company in Hawaii called Noir Pictures in 2006." At Clark, he has continued his film interest by joining Clark Cable Network (CCN), where he has been station manager and will be program manager in the 2009-10 academic year.

"This semester, I was focusing entirely on getting CCN up and running, so I didn't have time to produce a single film. I decided that this film contest would be the perfect opportunity to re-kindle my interest," said LeFebvre. "Also, I vowed to myself that if I won the flip camera, I would start making films more regularly. Now that it has happened, I intend to follow through on that promise! I am ecstatic that I won. I can't believe that it happened!"

LeFebvre's video is the featured Video of the Week on Clark Voices. Watch it and other student videos on Clark Voices (www.clarku.edu/clarkvoices). Students may submit videos to Clark Voices for review and possible posting at any time.