AG Martha Coakley advises constitutional vigilance

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley urged a Clark audience to keep close watch on the debates surrounding the constitutionality of several major issues, paying particular heed to how those issues will be decided legally and how those decisions will reverberate in the public. Coakley delivered a lunchtime Constitution Day address before a crowd of more…

Alumna’s ‘Checkered Floors’ to make Clark debut next week

“My senior thesis changed my life.” That’s a rare sentiment to describe a project that many a college senior grinds through, then permanently puts away following graduation. But Cheryl Hamilton ’01 says the words without a hint of irony. In her senior year, the international relations major returned to her hometown of Lewiston, Maine, to…

Renowned health care author to deliver Drapos Lecture

Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., nationally known health care author and expert on patient engagement, will deliver the Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture, “That’s Not What I Wanted to Hear!: Evidence-Based Medicine and our Hard Choices,” at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Razzo Hall. The Alex Drapos Memorial Lecture Series is a program of free, public lectures…

Clark recruitment poster garners CASE Circle of Excellence Award

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has named Clark University a winner in the 2011 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Program. Clark received a silver award in the category of Individual Student Recruitment Packages: Posters. There were 2,500 individual entries for the Circle of Excellence Program, representing 614 institutions. Overall, 171 colleges,…