Drake University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Nita (Nivedita) Pandit Student Research Award. The Award recognizes students participating in research projects with priority for those that are completing laboratory or ‘hands-on’ research with CPHS faculty beyond their program’s curricular requirements. Students may use the funding to support research travel...
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myDrake Issues Resolved
At 8:05 a.m., ITS became aware of an issue that was not allowing some users to access myDrake and at 8:20 a.m., ITS staff resolved the issue. If you continue to experience any issues accessing myDrake, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its for assistance.
Blackboard Courses Issue Resolved
Thank you for your patience. ITS has now resolved the issue that was causing Blackboard courses to disappear. If you continue to encounter issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021 to phone number 226787. You first...
Blackboard Courses Issue
At 9:51 a.m. ITS was made aware of an issue that’s causing courses to not show in Blackboard. ITS is diligently working towards a resolution. We will provide updates and will let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank you for your patience. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting...
Reminder: ITS maintenance on Sunday
Maintenance will be from 6 to 9 a.m. this coming Sunday, Dec. 19. This will affect your ability to log into or access Drake systems including Self Service/MyDUSIS, Blackboard, and Banner Systems. For a full schedule of maintenance dates for 2021 please see www.drake.edu/its/maintenanceschedule/.
System Interruption this Morning
At approximately 9:00 a.m. ITS was made aware of an issue that disrupted services of some non-critical systems. We apologize for any inconvenience for people attempting to access those services. These issues now appear to be resolved. Please contact ITS at 515-271-3001 or service.drake.edu/its if you notice any services you are still unable to access.
McCreedy Receives Inaugural Alexander Scholarship for Rural Iowa Health
McKenna McCreedy, a third-year student pharmacist, was awarded the inaugural Joe and Gordon Alexander Pharmacy Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes a student pharmacist within Drake University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS) who is from rural Iowa and plans to return to rural Iowa health following graduation. McCreedy is from Tiffin, Iowa, and plans to return to rural Iowa after graduating...
Global Amazon Web Services Outage Resolved
The global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that was causing performance issues in Blackboard Learn, Panopto, and Respondus Lockdown browser along with many other sites across the Internet has been resolved per Amazon. If you continue to be unable to access these systems, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report...
Update on Global Amazon Web Services Outage affecting Blackboard, Panopto and Respondus
The global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage continues to cause performance issues in Blackboard Learn, Panopto, and Respondus Lockdown browser along with many other sites across the Internet. We will share any updates provided by AWS as they become available.
Global Amazon Web Services Outage affecting Blackboard, Panopto and Respondus
ITS has been made aware of a global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage causing performance issues in Blackboard Learn, Panopto, and Respondus Lockdown browser. We will share any updates provided by AWS as they become available.



