Category: Alumni

Drake faculty and staff partied hardy in celebration of the University's 125th birthday in a special event set at the Science Center of Iowa, 401 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, last month.

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Dr. Mary Sparks Hostetter, the doctor who led the Drake Student Health Center in the 1970s through the early 1990s, died Friday, Feb. 17, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center. She was 85.

A recent nine-day tour of elementary and high schools in St. Petersburg, Russia, gave Eric Johnson, Drake assistant professor of education, a fresh perspective on how race and other differences work in American education and society.

Drake alumni from all walks of life returned to their alma mater earlier this month to offer courses in leadership for students as part of the annual Donald V. Adams Leadership Institute Student Leadership Conference.

The Drake University Chamber Choir, conducted by Aimee Beckmann-Collier, toured England in January, performing in the cathedrals of Salisbury and Ely, at St. John's College Chapel at Cambridge University and at St. James Piccadilly and The Grosvenor Chapel in London.

A total of about 250 art students from four public high schools in Des Moines toured the "Doubletake" graphic design exhibition at the Anderson Gallery and explored Drake's art studios in January, thanks to a $10,000 grant awarded to the Drake School of Fine Arts

Dave Blank, who has served as director of athletics at Drake University since 2000, has been named director of athletics at Elon University in Elon, N.C. Blank will begin his duties this spring, succeeding Alan White who retires in May after 35 years at E

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