Year: 2006

Three recent Drake graduates have been offered Fulbright grants to be used for research and teaching assistantships in other nations during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Eleanor E. Zeff, associate professor of political science, is the 2005-2006 winner of the Madelyn M. Levitt Mentor of the Year Award - the highest honor given to mentors at Drake.

Drake University Head Start kicked off its 30th anniversary festivities earlier this month with a Staff Appreciation Event and an Open House in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center.

Everybody loves the Drake Relays Parade … and a parade with balloons, well, that's just too much giddiness for words.

The Drake Board of Trustees last week appointed three faculty members to Levitt professorships in recognition of their superior performance.

The top two finalists for the Drake athletic director position visited Drake's campus starting Monday, May 8, Drake President David Maxwell announced.

A top adviser to President Bush, as well as the chief of H&R Block and a lawyer who was the first in his family to go to college were among the Drake University alumni the school honored at the Drake National Alumni Association Annual Awards Dinner on Friday, May 12.

Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communications students recently earned two first-place honors in the Society of Professional Journalists' Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards for work in the 2005 calendar year.

The Drake College of Business and Public Administration awarded its first Community Leadership Award to H. Lynn Horak at last month's Business Days Banquet.

Bulldog Bashes are confirmed or in the works in cities nationwide for this May/June.