Author: Aaron Jaco (Aaron Jaco)

While enjoying the pink and orange sunset over Camelback Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona, Drake University alumni and friends celebrated their Drake connections and the progress of distinctlyDrake. The gathering at the Phoenician Resort, which took place March 18, is one of several distinctlyDrake events that will happen across the country over the next few years....

As the 2010-11 school year draws to an end, many high school seniors are undoubtedly seated with their parents around kitchen tables, poring over acceptance letters and financial aid packages from colleges and universities. Drake sophomore Caitlin Podemski certainly remembers her college search. The music and psychology major from Rockford, Ill., weighed Drake’s reputation for...

Six Drake University students traveled to Appalachia on Drake’s first official alternative spring break trip March 13-19. Though service trips had been organized by other campus groups, such as Habitat for Humanity in the past, this was the first organized by the Office of Student Life. “Over the past few years we’ve been working to...

The author of books on creativity and collaboration started by sharing some of the insights she's gained during her more than 45 years in dance.

The eighth annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences highlights collaborative work of undergraduates and faculty, featuring a record number of scientific research projects from multiple departments.

The Pharmacogenomics Teaching and Research Laboratory will not only benefit students, but that the facilities will enhance faculty research projects across science departments and spur collaboration across institutions.

Drake’s Arts and Sciences faculty is growing. In the past two years the college has added six faculty lines, in addition to replacing lines vacated by retirement or resignation. Among the recent hires is Nanci Ross, assistant professor of ethnobotany, whose background includes research experience from the Missouri Botanical Garden to the tropics in Guatemala...

The Comparative Management and Policy Analysis in A Global Context course, which this year focused on food policy as it relates to social justice, hunger and sustainability, recently took graduate students and alumni through six European countries over 18 days.

This April, the annual Iowa Distance Learning Association Conference will address the need for educators to understand and correctly use instructional technology.