Mock Trial teams score high at regional tournament

The Clark University Intercollegiate Mock Trial Teams performed well at the New England Regional Tournament that was held on the Clark campus Feb. 19-21, earning a trip to the sub-national tournament in Boston later this month. At the tournament, which included 27 teams from 16 colleges and universities from throughout the region, students assume the…

Men's basketball wins tournament, heads to the NCAAs

Fresh off of the fourth NEWMAC Tournament Championship in school history, upstart Clark University will face Albright University out of the Commonwealth Conference in the first round of the 2010 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship.  The game is slated to begin at 8 p.m. Friday, March 5, at Albright, in Reading, PA.  The Cougars, who earned…

Clark honored for exemplary community service

University named to President’s Honor Roll for Civic Engagement WORCESTER, MA—The Corporation for National and Community Service named Clark University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youths.  Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve…

Perkins School president to speak on rights of disabled

Steven Rothstein, president of the Perkins School for the Blind, one of the world’s leading institutions for educating the blind and deaf-blind, will present “Individuals with Disabilities: The Next Civil Rights Movement,” as part of Clark University’s Difficult Dialogues program at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center,…

Clark Model U.N. team excels at Harvard conference

Twenty-four students on the Clark University Model United Nations participated and team delegates earned four awards in the highly competitive, international Harvard National Model United Nations 2010 Conference, Feb. 11 to 14 in Boston. Senior Anna Moran won the Best Delegate Award (top honors in her committee) in the Asian Regional Forum, representing Indonesia. Sarah Richard and Abir Joshi, both…

Novelist who inspired 'Precious' at Clark

Clark University’s Office of Intercultural Affairs will present Sapphire, poet and author of the 1996 novel “Push” (which may be better known by its film adaptation title “Precious”), as part of their Black History month celebration at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22, in Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall on Downing Street, Worcester. Read an article…