Students’ rare experience inside one of the nation’s most infamous prisons
Author: Ashton Hockman (Ashton Hockman)
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From Drake to Hollywood—and Back Again
A theatre alumna brings her stage and screen experience to the classroom for a new generation of thespians.
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Lessons from South Africa
Global Practitioner in Residence Fatima Suleman shares her expertise with Drake Pharmacy students.
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Class Act
The Class of 1965 recently celebrated their 50-year reunion in Des Moines, maintaining close personal bonds to each other and to the pharmacy profession.
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This Changes Everything
The distinctlyDrake campaign comes to an end, expanding access and learning spaces for Pharmacy and Health Science students.
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CPHS Student Accomplishments, Fall 2015
Read about the accomplishments achieved by CPHS students this semester including scholarships, competitions, and national awards.
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Behind the scenes at the Democratic presidential debate
This month, 8 million Americans watched as three Democratic presidential hopefuls sparred over foreign policy, economics, and other major issues from the Jordan stage of Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University. Yahoo live-streamed their Digital Democracy conference, broadcast from Parents Hall in Olmsted Center, where Republican candidate Rand Paul sank into a white leather couch as...
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Strength of his convictions
Imagine you’re a juror in a high-profile murder trial. An expert witness—a forensic scientist—displays a strand of hair found on the body of the deceased; then she compares it with hair from the defendant. The hairs are “microscopically indistinguishable” from one another, she concludes, and it is “highly unlikely” that the two samples came from...
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Evolving health care system
Dr. Arvind Movva, a gastroenterologist in Moline, Illinois, was in the early stages of developing a new online pharmacy company in the fall of 2014 when he engaged marketing firm owner Ted Thoms, AS’92, in brainstorming the promotion of the new business. By the following spring, Movva was ready to hire a lead pharmacist. “There’s...
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Growing their Bulldog family
“Broaden your horizons. Open different doors. You may find a you there that you never knew was yours,” sang first-year Musical Theatre major Jackson Kealy. The Noyce siblings, Jim Noyce, BN’78; Ken Noyce, BN’80, GR’84; and Carol Molino, BN’85; were seated nearby at the best table in the house. “Go and chase your dreams, you...