Category: Alumni

Drake’s mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. The Drake experience is distinguished by collaborative learning among students, faculty, and staff and by the integration of the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation.  

Rankings show improvements in bar passage rate, student/faculty ratio; College of Pharmacy ties for fifth among private institutions in new rankings; Drake SIFE team win honors in regional tournament; Drake to honor Richard Morrow with Weaver medal; StormReady: Drake is prepared to safeguard people, property from severe weather; Drake students change lives with alternative spring break.

After serving the West Des Moines Community School District for 30 years, eighth-grade teacher Mary Brooks was honored with the 2008 Drake University School of Education Excellence in Education Award.

Adam Emmenecker scored 14 points and set a Drake single-season assist mark Saturday as the 20th-ranked Bulldogs held off Wichita State, 73-63, in the MVC regular-season finale for both teams.

The Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor -- the highest award presented by the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences -- will be awarded to Richard Morrow, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of pharmacology.

Let’s DU Lunch March 12, April 9; Drake Choir coming to northern Iowa, Minnesota’s Twin Cities this month; Have fun, fun, fun with fellow alumni at the Hollywood Bowl and Brian Wilson Sept. 13.

Pharmacy students to gain state-of-the-art practice lab; Drake trustee honored for character-based leadership; Drake alumni honored at annual Pharmacy and Health Sciences Day; Alumnus Bruce Foster explores solutions to lending crisis; Enjoy alumni photos online; and School of Education recognizes three outstanding alumni.

'Today' show features Drake student in story on finding college scholarships; and Two new members to join Drake Board of Trustees.

Drake will honor six outstanding alumni at the Annual Alumni Awards Dinner Friday, May 16.

Drake’s mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. The Drake experience is distinguished by collaborative learning among students, faculty, and staff and by the integration of the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation.