Author: Aaron Jaco (Aaron Jaco)

Drake will host the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships June 8-11.

It is with great excitement and anticipation that Drake announces Garrison Keillor, best-selling author and host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” for the 27th Martin Bucksbaum Lectureship Series on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. The event will occur in the Knapp Center at 7 p.m. Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began...

Tony Sunga, an assistant at the University of Wyoming for the past three years and a 1988 Drake graduate, has been named head volleyball coach at Drake University.

Cowles Library invites alumni to electronically browse past issues of Quax and other archives by visiting the Drake Heritage Collection online.

Nearly 700 students packed a section of the Olmsted Center parking lot for a 2 a.m. pie fight, a stunt intended to show school spirit and kick-off the Drake Relays celebration with some good, not-so-clean fun.

Ryan L. Price, a sophomore at Drake University, is the sole Iowa college student selected to participate in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, from May 6 – 16. The students will retrace a 1961 bus trip through the Deep South that historians credit as a turning point of the Civil Rights Movement. Price, of Apple...

Drake Head Football Coach Chris Creighton has received a 2011 Giant Step Award from the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) for his leadership in organizing the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl, which will take place May 21 in Arusha, Tanzania. The Kili Bowl will pit the Drake Bulldogs against a Mexican all-star team in the...

The symposium topic this year was whether the Constitution should be interpreted as a living document or whether it should be strictly interpreted as it was originally written. William Robinson III, president elect of the American Bar Association presented the keynote lecture at the Supreme Court Celebration.

The month of April has been featured in jazz standards such as Count Basie’s “I’ll Remember April” and Charlie Parker’s “April in Paris.” This April, Drake’s first-ever All Jazz Reunion will provide a new standard for alumni who kept a backbeat or improvised a solo during their time at the University. The two-day reunion will...

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....