Author: Carl Olsen (Carl Olsen)

There's still time to enroll children and adults for music lessons during the fall semester at the Drake University Community School of Music.

Drake University's Center for Global Citizenship is launching a public lecture series titled "Debating America's Role in the World" in which experts on foreign affairs will discuss topics including terrorism, the Iraq war and the Middle East, hunger, pandemics, energy and climate change.

No matter how old you are, you can remember the first time you left home.
Drake first year students and their families share their thoughts with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Dave Peterson as they begin their Drake experience. Dave captures the emotion, the fun and the beauty of the Drake campus on move-in day.

Nationally known legal scholars, attorneys and government leaders will gather Friday, Sept. 7, at Drake University Law School's Legal Clinic for a conference being convened by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is a visiting distinguished professor of law at Drake.

Drake University fine arts faculty members will showcase their musical and theatrical talents in "A Night of Stars," a free concert sponsored by Friends of Drake Arts on Friday, Sept. 7

Before they attend a single class or hit the books, first-year Drake University students will tackle a variety of service projects in the Drake Neighborhood on Saturday, Aug. 25.

Drake University once again has been named a Best Midwestern College by Princeton Review and is featured in the Best Colleges: Region by Region section of PrincetonReview.com.

Drake University's Anderson Gallery will open its fall season with "Selling the War: Posters of World War I," an exhibition of33 original propaganda posters on loan from the State Historical Society of Iowa.

In the hours and days to come, pundits will endlessly speculate who received the biggest bump from Sunday's nationally televised presidential debate on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." The answer, after Drake flawlessly hosted the second such debate in three weeks, is unquestionably the University, as well as the neighborhood.

If everything you can eat on a stick at the Iowa State Fair seems to be sticking it to you, come see the pharmacy students at the Drake University booth in the Varied Industries Building for an appropriate remedy: a free heartburn screening -- and a free sample of Prilosec on a stick