Category: Alumni

The Student Bar Association at Drake University recently won a national award from the American Bar Association/Law Student Division, placing second in the Best SBA Category of the ABA's annual awards.

Drake advanced to seventh in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" rankings and gained sole possession of fourth place in the overall rankings of 142 Midwest universities - master's category published by U.S. News and World Report magazine in the 2007

Drake University has signed new exchange agreements with three universities abroad, creating new options for students. The new exchange agreements are with Fachhochschule Weiner Neustad in Weiner Neustad, Austria; University of Verona in Verona, Italy; and Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the masterminds behind Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., are coming to Drake University, ice cream in hand.

Thanks to all of our great alumni volunteers throughout Central Iowa who helped with the Des Moines Arts Festival in late June. Thanks to your help, we raised more than $3,100 for local alumni programs and our Central Iowa Alumni Chapter.

On Saturday, Sept. 30, the Drake Neighborhood will be host to the third annual Dogtown Fest. There will be two stages - an outdoor stage on 24th and University and another all acoustic stage at Mars Café.

Drake will offer its Master of Public Administration program at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, beginning with the 2006 fall semester.

Reading Is Fundamental Inc., the nation's oldest and largest children's and family literacy nonprofit group, selected Drake University Head Start as a recipient of RIF Program Excellence Honors 2006, an award sponsored by MetLife Foundation.

Dan Connelly, a junior English and secondary teaching major at Drake University, recently won 33 1/3's "Under 21 Writing Contest," which landed him $250 and publication in the latest installment of a literary book series.

Greetings and salutations from the sweat belt (better known as Des Moines, the home of your beloved alma mater, Drake University). Despite the withering summer temperatures squatting over the Midwest this summer, we remained busy Bulldogs on campus and around the nation. Construction is the theme of our summer edition, from a planned student housing...