For the second year in a row, Des Moines will celebrate the Drake Relays with a downtown version of the University's street painting tradition.
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Paul Secord named to Business Record ‘Forty under 40’
Drake University Director of Development Paul Secord is among the Des Moines young professionals tapped for the annual Business Record honor.
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Drake trustee, staff and alumnus chosen for the annual Grinnell College social justice prize selection committee
Drake trustee Suku Radia, president and CEO, Bankers Trust, Marsha K. Ternus, LW'77, former chief justice, Iowa Supreme Court, and Emily Westergaard Hamilton, GR'09, executive director, Des Moines "I Have a Dream" Foundation were named to the 10-person selection committee for The Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize.
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Get to know: Gale Brubaker, Iowa Council for International Understanding
Drake alumna Gale Brubaker is featured for her work as senior program manager of finance, grants and marketing for the Iowa Council for International Understanding. The goal of ICIU is to build cultural respect at home and around the world, one person at a time.
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More homes in D.M. area worth less than owners' mortgages
More Iowa families will struggle to sell their homes and refinance their mortgages as a growing number of Des Moines area homes are worth less than their owners' mortgages, said Tom Root, Drake University finance professor.
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Top 5 pastimes in Madrid
Kim Knott, a recent Drake graduate living in Malaga, Spain, blogs about her five favorite pastimes in Madrid. She teaches English in an elementary school in Malaga.
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Nationally renowned scholar to discuss myths of Arab world
James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab Americans Institute and Zogby International polling and market research firm, aims to debunk the myths and biases surrounding the Arab world in his latest lecture, "Arab Voices."
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Moms: Put us both on birth certificate
Andrea Charlow, associate dean and Drake Law professor, is quoted regarding a legal battle over gay rights in that could come from a same-sex couple determined to have both of their names listed on their child's birth certificate.
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Drake select choirs to perform concert featuring repertoire from tour of Midwest
Under the direction of Aimee Beckmann-Collier, the Drake Choir and Chamber Choir will perform works by Haydn and Gershwin.
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Drake students to compete at NAB convention
Drake University is one of two schools in the country chosen to compete in the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters Show "War on the Floor" student competition. Radio-TV seniors Rachel Yancey, Eamonn Cogan, Rebecca Altenhofen and Lauren Staller will be participating.