Year: 2007

Drake will celebrate the 117th anniversary of the Organization of American States with a Pan American Day Celebration at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 12, in Olmsted Center.

More than 600 members of the Drake community will join in a 12-hour walk to raise money for cancer research and treatment on March 30 and 31. Drake's chapter of Colleges Against Cancer is hosting its annual Relay for Life, a fundraiser that last year drew 470 registered participants and raised more than $23,000.

Drake's DELTA Rx Institute recently hosted the premiere Drake's Next Top Entrepreneur Competition. Alex Kieger, a junior biochemistry-molecular biology major, won first place with his idea to establish a clinic for genetic cancer testing, screening and early prevention plans.

Three Drake music department faculty are bringing professional chamber music to the Des Moines area with the revival of a generations-old Drake tradition: the Fine Arts Trio.

The spring series of Friday evening public presentations at the Drake Municipal Observatory will begin with a presentation on gravity and the formation of our solar system at 8 p.m. today, March 23, at the observatory in Waveland Park.

Service members being wheeled headfirst into the Air Force Theater Hospital emergency room in Iraq shouldn't be surprised if the first person they see is Maj. Derek Speten, a 1997 Drake graduate and president of the Society of Air Force Pharmacy.

Registration for summer and fall 2007 semesters is going on now through April 19. Students can ensure hassle-free registering by becoming familiarized with the blueView Web portal prior to their allotted registration time.

Approximately 300 college and high school students from Iowa and surrounding states will gather at Drake Friday, March 30, for the Collegiate Entrepreneur's Iowa Conference. The event was originally scheduled for March 2 but was rescheduled due to winter weather.

Drake Director of Athletics Sandy Hatfield Clubb announced today the naming of Keno Davis as the school’s 24th head men’s basketball coach.

The fourth annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (DUCURS) will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Parents Hall, Olmsted Center. Rodney Rogers, LA'49, GR'51, professor of biology, will also be honored at a luncheon for his 51 years of service at Drake.