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Southeast Polk Community School District fills positions
Michael Nicodemus received a master's degree in educational leadership and elementary principal licensure from Drake University. Jo Ellen Latham currently serves as an adjunct professor at Drake University, teaching classes for reading endorsement.
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Leaving home for the first time can be doubly hard for twins
Azra and Amra Beganovic, twins who attend Drake University, always assumed they would attend college together. "We were drawn to Drake, so our decision wasn't dictated by a need to be together, but by our mutual desire to go there," Azra said.
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Buy Fresh Buy Local releases 2011 directory at Downtown Farmers’ Market
The Buy Fresh Buy Local directory is a compilation of Iowa farms, grocers, cooperatives and farmers' markets.
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Growers Edge offers sophisticated web-based marketing tools
Drake University graduate Craig Mouchka is president of growers-edge.com, which offers web-based marketing tools to farmers. "There is a lot of information out there, and the purpose of growers-edge.com is to help farmers make sense of it all," said Mouchka. "Farmers need timely and relevant market, weather and profitability information from a source they can trust."
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Prediction tools gauge college admissions chances
An increasing number of free Internet services claim to help students predict their chances of getting into their favorite colleges and Universities. Tom Delahunt, vice president of admission and financial aid, says a physical visit to campus and meeting with faculty is the best way to decide where to apply.
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Texting ban, one year later: Behaviors slow to change
Lisa Gardner, assistant professor of statistics at Drake University, says it's hard to measure the impact of strategies that persuade people to stop risky behavior.
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SOE featured in the new SPA newsletter
Sponsored Programs Administration just released a new newsletter which features grant funding across Drake University, including the School of Education.
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Conservation a concern as fewer farm owners manage land
The Sustainable Agricultural Land Stewardship project by Drake University's Agricultural Law Center and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University seeks to answer: With tenant farming on the rise, what happens to conservation efforts on those agricultural properties?
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BACK TO BASICS: Thanks to a unique tutoring program at Drake, after 27 years one metro man has learned how to do the one thing that never stuck
Michael Woods is learning to read thanks to Drake University’s Adult Literacy Program and his volunteer tutor Bill Barnes. WHO-TV