John Edwards, associate dean for information resources and technology and professor of law, was recognized as Outstanding Citizen of the Year 2019 at the Clive Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner. The evening’s program offered these highlights: Clive certainly would not be the same today without the help of John Edwards. His service as a Clive...
Category: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
Professor Alanah Mitchell Honored for Service
Alanah Mitchell, associate professor of information systems and the department chair of information management and business analytics (IMBA) in the College of Business and Public Administration (CBPA), has been awarded the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Saundra Slaughter Service Award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions of leadership and service to the profession and was presented...
Dean Renae Chesnut Receives Two National AACP Awards
Renae Chesnut, dean of Drake’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was the recipient of two prestigious awards at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) annual meeting July 21—25 in Boston. Chesnut received the James Robertson, Jr. Leadership Excellence in Student Services Award, and the inaugural Sustained Contribution to Administrative Practice in Pharmacy...
Professor of Art and Design Researching Civil War Art
Building on her scholarship on artwork about the American Civil War, Maura Lyons, professor of art and design at Drake University, is spending her summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) at Newfields, researching a painting in the collection called Our Flag. Her plan is to combine an art historical analysis of the painting...
Drake political scientist featured on the cover of Times Literary Supplement
Kieran Williams, adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science, was featured on the cover of this week's issue of The Times Literary Supplement.
Professor to present at international conference on behavior analysis
Maria Valdovinos, professor of psychology, has been invited to present at the Association for Behavior Analysis International’s 44 Annual Conference later this month.
Professor publishes book on eating disorder recovery
Catherine Gillespie, associate dean of the Drake University School of Education, has published an academic book on eating disorder recovery.
Drake’s Phillip Chen awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Phillip Chen, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Art at Drake University, has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
Mirla Criste prepares for ‘transcendent’ Drake directorial debut
Assistant Professor Mirla Criste makes her directorial debut at Drake University this week with Drake Theatre's "The Trojan Women," which runs April 5-8.