Year: 2007

World-renowned opera singer Simon Estes will share life experiences and insights at the 13th annual Ray Pugh Institute of New Hope on Sunday, May 20.

"A Taste of Drake," the official magazine of the Drake University Honors Student Council, launched recently. Find the magazine online at www.drake.edu/honors.

Peter Yu has been named the inaugural Kern Family chair in intellectual property law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School.

The Drake University Department of Music will hold auditions for middle and high school cellists on May 23 to select recipients of scholarship awards for free cello instruction at Drake during the 2007-08 academic year.

Student teams from Drake earned three first-place awards at the recent Midwest Model European Union Simulation in Indianapolis.

Senior magazine and news-Internet students joined forces this spring to create THiNK magazine, an environmentally friendly news publication. The staff will celebrate its launch with a free, public party at 5 p.m. today.

Chip Miller, professor of marketing, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of San Carlos in Cebu, Philippines, from November 2007 to April 2008.

Drake University journalism students earned two first-place honors and a total of six Region 7 Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for work in the 2006 calendar year.

Joseph Gerson, a nuclear specialist and peace campaigner, will speak Tuesday, May 1, on "Abolition or Global Proliferation: What to Make of Iranian and U.S. Nuclear Programs and Policies."

John Burney, dean of Drake's College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to the new position of associate provost for curriculum, faculty development and assessment, Provost Ronald Troyer announced.