On Oct. 4, the Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS) will host a grand opening for the Johansen Skills Assessment Laboratory at 11:30 a.m. in Cline Hall. Drake administrators, faculty, staff, and students will be in attendance to celebrate the new learning space. Thanks to a lead gift from Greg Johansen to...
Retired Des Moines Public School teacher, administrator, and Drake alum, Mr. John Ligouri, addressed Dr. Shelley Fairbairn’s Learning and Assessment students on Thursday, September 19 as part of the classroom management and motivation unit for the class. He discussed key principles that he refers to as “Rules of the Game,” as well as important concepts related...
The current Anderson Gallery exhibit receives a positive review from CityView.
On Oct. 7, Drake University’s actuarial science program and the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will host a round-table discussion on health care costs in collaboration with Aviva USA, EMC Insurance, Principal Financial Group, and PwC. This event is free and open to the public. “Health care costs are increasing at an alarming pace...
William P. Dougherty, Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of Music at Drake University, will deliver the 29th Luther W. Stalnaker lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University, 2507 University Ave. His lecture, “Signs in Song,” will discuss the relationship between music and text. After an examination of intermediality...
Johnnie Carson, LA’65 and senior advisor to the president at the United States Institute of Peace, will deliver a lecture titled “Africa: The Changing Face of the Continent,” on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University, 2507 University...
Assistant professor David Remund, Ph.D., APR, is among the worldwide team of scholars who contributed to the second edition of Encyclopedia of Public Relations, recently published by SAGE. This two-volume set is a comprehensive resource about the field of public relations, as well as the evolution of public relations practice. Remund’s contributions are in the area...
Prof. Jon Gould, professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University, will give a talk entitled, “Predicting Wrongful Convictions” at the Drake University Law School on Friday, Oct. 11.
The Comparison Project, the organization that brought the Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Drake’s campus earlier this month, will continue with their fall programming on Thursday, Oct. 3 with a lecture titled, “Ineffabilities and Conventional Truth in Jñānaśrimitra’s Buddhist Philosophy of Language.” Amy Donahue, assistant professor of philosophy at Kennesaw State University, will deliver the lecture...
SJMC Professors Chris Snider and Lori Blachford discuss why the Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication bought a drone. The drone was purchased by the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies. Video by SJMC students Annelise Tarnowski and Cameron Johnson.