As the classroom lights dim, students gather around a touch screen board displaying a webpage of the previous day’s homework assignment. While one student looks up a formula on their tablet, another posits a new way to solve trigonometry using a graphing calculator function. Collaborative, infused with technology, and evolving, science and math education isn’t...
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Limitless
Meagan Flynn, one of several journalism students who nabbed top awards at a national magazine contest this summer, shares how she ended up at Drake and what inspired her to write a story about a one-person town.
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Bearing Witness
Drake painting students journey into unfamiliar territory with support from faculty members, Angela Battle and Tim Knepper. Learn how an interdisciplinary experience landed Myriah Kolar award-winning artwork.
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Campus Living, 2014
Without a doubt, the college experience today looks different than in years past. Social media has changed the way Drake students connect, but students, faculty, and staff continue to argue the strongest community is the one formed on campus.
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Next Step Immigration Group forms from Drake ties
Two Drake alumni and an instructor create an organization to assist immigrants in central Iowa.
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Strengthening connections in Malaysia
Long-time admission counselor makes Drake's largest source of international students her home base abroad.
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SJMC creates new interdisciplinary major
Strategic political communication to combine aspects of journalism, political science, and rhetoric, beginning fall 2015.
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Incubator program takes off
Launching this summer, the Lorentzen New Venture Hatchery will aid student startups.