Isabelle Tharp, rising fourth-year student pharmacist in the Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (CPHS), was announced as the recipient of the 2021 American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Good Government Student Pharmacist-of-the-Year Award. The award was presented during the APhA Political Leadership Reception held during the virtual APhA Annual Meeting in March 2021. Established in 2004, this award recognizes a student pharmacist with...
Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS) held two separate annual Recognition and Pinning Ceremonies on Thursday, May 6, 2021, to accommodate for COVID-19 safety guidelines on campus. The ceremonies marked the transition to final year internships, fieldwork, and rotations for third-year undergraduate health sciences students, first-year master of athletic training students, second-year occupational therapy doctoral students, and third-year doctor...
Drake has begun a major project to update the MyDUSIS system to Banner Self Service. Beginning tomorrow morning, the look and feel, as well as some functionality, will begin changing throughout the system in phases. Here are the changes scheduled to take place tomorrow: New temporary application in the Commonly Used Apps section- My Information. New header on any...
Systems supported by ITS may be unavailable due to routine maintenance beginning at approximately 9:00 p.m. tonight until 1:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. For a full schedule of maintenance dates for 2021 please see www.drake.edu/its/maintenanceschedule/.
The Drake University PharmD Class of 2021 graduates continue a tradition of success in the ASHP Residency Match. Out of 53 participants in 2021, 43 PharmD graduates matched with a residency. Drake’s overall 81.13 percent match rate far exceeds the national average of 64.95 percent, placing the University 1st among all Midwest private programs and 3rd among all pharmacy programs in the Midwest. Nationally, we are placed 3rd among private programs and 12th among all 142...
ITS has received numerous reports over the past week of multiple phishing scam variants circulating around campus. Most of them reference job opportunities or impersonate ITS staff and include links that compromise the security of your Drake account, often including language to scare you into clicking the risky link. Do not click the links or reply to...
Thank you for your patience. Our has now resolved the intermittent Blackboard outage. Blackboard resolved this outage by completing an update of the system. If you continue to experience issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/itsto report your issue. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2020 to...
ITS staff was just notified that Blackboard’s Engineering team has determined the cause of the intermittent access issues. In order to resolve this problem, they will be updating Blackboard this evening at 7 p.m. If you encounter issues accessing Blackboard prior to the 7 p.m. maintenance, please continue to try clearing your browser cache or...
The Blackboard engineering team is continuing to investigate this issue and provide updates to ITS staff. In the meantime, if you encounter issues accessing Blackboard, please continue to try clearing your browser cache or trying a different browser, as many users have found that it resolves the issue. If you are still unable to access...
Systems supported by ITS may be unavailable due to routine maintenance beginning at approximately 9:00 p.m. tonight until 1:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. For a full schedule of maintenance dates for 2021 please see www.drake.edu/its/maintenanceschedule/.