More than 50 faculty and staff members were recognized for their dedication and commitment to Drake at the Drake University Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Event. The event took place on Tuesday, May 7 in Parents Hall of the Olmsted Center. The celebration honored Drake employees who have reached 20, 25, 30, or 35 years...
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Drake professor receives $125,000 grant for STEM-related project
Maryann Huey, assistant professor of mathematics at Drake University, has been awarded a $125,000 grant from the Iowa Department of Education for her project Statistics and Probability for Teaching Secondary Students. This project, which is a collaborative effort with Wendy Weber a mathematics professor at Central College, will provide professional development activities to rural, secondary...
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Two Drake students receive national College Women’s Leadership Award
Megan Blanford and Courtney Howell were selected as two of the 21 recipients of the College Women’s Leadership Award, a national award for social activism and political engagement. The award recognizes emerging young leaders from across the nation who have exhibited outstanding leadership skills and a commitment to social activism or political engagement. In addition...
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Drake Graduate Named Teacher of the Year
Drake University School of Education graduate, Deborah Alexander, BSE ’09, was recently named 2013 Teacher of the Year by The Rotary Club of Des Moines Foundation. Deborah teaches at Stowe Elementary and is in her fourth year of teaching. She was nominated by her principal, Dawn Vetter. Deborah challenges her students to assume personal responsibility...
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School of Education students to present curriculum for the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
In an effort to meet the language learning needs of refugees and immigrants in the Des Moines area, students at Drake University have partnered with the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) in a service-learning project. During the spring semester, students in the School of Education’s English as a Second Language (ESL) Methods course...
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Drake Law professor publishes book on HIV/AIDS governance
Peter K. Yu, professor of law and Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake Law School, recently published The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines, with Edward Elgar Publishing. The book brought together leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including intellectual property, human rights, public health, and development studies.
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Finding a dream job in patient-centered practice
Jane Allen, alumna of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, discusses how her Drake experience helped her create an innovative pharmacy practice at Hy-Vee.
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Drake Law professor publishes book on HIV/AIDS governance
Peter K. Yu, professor of law and Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake Law School, recently published The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines, with Edward Elgar Publishing. The book brought together leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including intellectual property, human rights, public health, and development studies....
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2013-05-032013-05-08by Jeremy SieversIn College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesOfficial News Releases
Drake University hosts grand opening for Morgan E. Cline Atrium for Pharmacy and Science
On Thursday, April 25, the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Drake University hosted a grand opening for the Morgan E. Cline Atrium for Pharmacy and Science. Administrators, faculty, staff, students, and friends joined together to celebrate the new facility and recognize the donors who made it all possible. Funding for the building came...
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Mansfield’s ‘The Sparks Fly Upward’ performed at MIT
After a popular debut in Des Moines in 2008, a piece from the opera “The Sparks Fly Upward,” written by Cathy Lesser Mansfield, a professor of law at Drake University Law School, was performed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Holocaust Commemoration on April 8.