Clark University is an institution of higher education in Worcester, Massachusetts. Clark was founded as a graduate school in 1887 by Jonas Gilman Clark, a carriage manufacturer, hardware dealer, and investor. It was the first graduate school in New England and only the second in the United States, after Johns Hopkins University. Clark University began to provide undergraduate education in 1902, and today it offers bachelor’s degrees in a variety of disciplines.
G. Stanley Hall, a pioneer of developmental psychology, was Clark’s first president, from 1889 to 1919. Hall stimulated research in psychology at the university. The Austrian physician Sigmund Freud delivered a famous series of lectures at Clark in 1909 that introduced psychoanalysis to the United States. The rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard earned master’s and doctor’s degrees at Clark and taught there for most of his career.
The university’s website at https://www.clarku.edu/ offers additional information.
