Flora will reign as the 2026 Drake Relays mascot and the Most Beautiful Bulldog Judges proudly announced the winner of the 47th Annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest® at the Knapp Center on Drake University’s campus on Sunday. Seven-year-old Flora was crowned the champion and will serve a week-long reign as the official mascot for the 2026...
Drake University announced today that Cowles Library will house the personal and professional papers of Thomas J. Vilsack, the 40th Governor of Iowa and the 30th and 32nd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The agreement was formalized during a signing ceremony at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates. The acquisition includes a wealth of materials that document Vilsack’s more than 40 years of public...
Drake University’s Susan Glaspell Writers & Critics Series will host C. Wylie Lenz for a lecture, “The Evolving Zombie in Film and Fiction,” on Tuesday, March 31, at 6 p.m. The event will be held in the Cowles Library Reading Room, is free and open to the public, and will include refreshments. Lenz will explore...
Event to discuss strategies for local leaders to address rapidly shifting challenges As municipal leaders across the country navigate a rising tide of economic, social, and political pressures, Drake University is convening the 2026 National Civility Summit for Local Government. The summit is hosted by The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center in association with The Ron and Jane Olson Institute for Public Democracy, the Iowa...
Students can simultaneously earn a Juris Doctor and Ph.D. or Ed.D. on an accelerated track The Drake University Law School and the School of Education have established a new joint degree program that enables students to earn a Juris Doctor from the Law School alongside either a Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Ph.D.) or Doctor...
Drake University law professor and director of international programs Ellen Yee, J.D., received the highly selective Fulbright Specialist Program award. The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board granted the award to Professor Yee for her upcoming work in Kosovo. Professor Yee will travel to the University Isa Bolentini Mitrovica in Kosovo...
Program will help meet growing need for disability support services in the state Drake University announced today the launch of a new Bachelor of Science program in Disability and Rehabilitation Services. Enrollment in the program begins in the Spring 2026 semester. The new major is offered within Drake’s School of Education and is designed to...
The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University is proud to announce that Steve Hartman, CBS News Correspondent, has been named as the recipient of the 2026 Robert D. and Billie Ray Pillar of Character Award. This award is The Ray Center’s highest honor, recognizing individuals who exemplify good character as a role...
On Wednesday, October 1, Drake University will host a lecture by Zilka Spahić Šiljak entitled, “Two Idealized Cosmologies of Gender Relation in Islam.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will occur at 6:00 pm in Sussman Theater on the lower level of the Olmsted Center on Drake’s campus (2875 University Ave)....
Drake named a top 100 private school in the nation, and #1 in Iowa for “Best Value” Drake University was ranked among the top 200 best colleges in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report national university rankings, competing against the largest private and public universities in the country. Drake also secured a...