Author: Carl Olsen (Carl Olsen)

Phouthasack Keopraseuth, a junior at Drake University, discusses his summer abroad in Laos as part of the Summer Study Abroad in Laos or SAIL program through the Center for Lao Studies.

Home for the holidays? Assistant Dean of Students Melissa Sturm-Smith offers tips for promoting peace and harmony.

Drake is honoring '98 alumnus and pro golfer Zach Johnson with its Double D Award, the highest award the Des Moines school gives to its former student-athletics.

A blog sponsored and maintained by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's National Alumni Council posts media jobs, including this one that has workers training military officers how to effectively do media interviews. Alumni are invited to submit job opportunities.

Laura Palmer, a major gift officer at Drake, and alumni Chris Diebel and Anthony Rodari are finalists for Des Moines Juice's "Young Professional of the Year" distinction.

In this article, which was reprinted in local and national news outlets, politics professor Dennis Goldford discusses the political effects of Iowa's loss of one seat in the U.S. House.

National population shifts are carrying voters into "reliable Republican territory," making President Obama's path to reelection more treacherous, Drake politics professor Dennis Goldford says.

Iowa Gov.-elect Terry Branstad has named Isaiah McGee, a Drake University master's degree recipient, director of the Iowa Department of Human Rights, an agency designed to eliminate economic, social and cultural barriers in the state. Branstad is a Drake Law School alumnus.

Mark Lawson, a 1979 Drake Law School grad, is one of two attorneys nominated to be a judge in the Seventh Judicial District of Iowa. He's been in private practice in Maquoketa, Ia., since 1989 and has served as city attorney for Bellevue, Maquoketa and Sabula. He's been a Jackson County Magistrate since January.