Phillip Chen, professor of drawing and printmaking at Drake University, recently received the 2015/2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. The foundation has awarded Chen $20,000, for his work in printmaking. This is Chen’s second major art grant after receiving the Louis B. Comfort Tiffany Award in 2006. Established in 1985 through the generosity of the late Lee...
Category: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
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Klipec publishes manuscript in Behavioral Brain Research journal
William Klipec, associate professor of psychology, recently published a research manuscript that has implications for the treatment of cocaine addiction.
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Researchers control ultrafast electrons in motion
A physicist from Drake University is part of an international research team that has developed a new method of studying and controlling some of the fastest processes in nature.
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Professor publishes pictorial history of the Iowa caucus
A new book by Drake University Associate Professor of Political Science Rachel Paine Caufield provides a pictorial history of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
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Drake faculty accompany Michael Cavanaugh
Nine Drake faculty members performed with the Des Moines Symphony, accompanying Michael Cavanaugh on the music of Billy Joel. Six faculty are regular members of the symphony, while three joined as substitutes and extras for the night.
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Perrine publishes “No Confession, No Mass”
The University of Nebraska Press recently published Associate Professor Jennifer Perrine’s manuscript, “No Confession, No Mass.” Perrine’s manuscript won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2014. She is also the author of In the Human Zoo, recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award...
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Iowa Supreme Court to honor SJMC Dean
The Iowa Supreme Court will recognize Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Kathleen Richardson and Des Moines Register Editorial Writer Rox Laird for their strong voice in support of justice. A recognition program will take place at 2 p.m. on Monday, November 23 in the Iowa Judicial Branch Building. Drake University Professor Emeritus...
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Leuwerke co-authors college success textbook
Wade Leuwerke, aassociate professor of education, recently published a textbook on college student success along with colleagues at Xavier University and the University of Utah.
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Pregnant With The Stars: Professor’s new book explores cultural obsession with celebrity baby bumps
Renee Ann Cramer, associate professor and chair of the law, politics, and society department at Drake University, published a new book about cultural obsession with celebrity pregnancies.
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Metrick-Chen publishes article in Hyperallergic
Lenore Metrick-Chen, associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Design, published “We’ve Always Been Here: A Portrait of the US by Two Black Artists” in the web outlet Hyperallergic.