Category: Alumni

Samuel A. Alito Jr. will deliver the 12th annual Opperman lecture at Drake.

Recent Drake graduates Olivia Lansing (Dellwood, Minn.) and Garrett Webb (Prairie Village Kan.) were named Drake's top athletes for 2009-10.

Ashley Anne Wick, AS'06, took her passion for the environment to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest to study insects.

Drake's football team will plan an all-star team from Mexico when it travels to Tanzania from May 17 to May 21.

More than 300 educators got a taste of their own medicine at the 2010 Literacy Leadership Conference on Drake campus.

Johnson to play in Ryder Cup Professional golfer Zach Johnson, BN’98, will play in the prestigious Ryder Cup game for the second time in his career. Johnson was one of four at-large picks by American team captain Corey Pavin, alongside Tiger Woods, Stewart Cink and Rickie Fowler.  The biennial contest pits 12-man teams from Europe...

David L. Wolper, who produced the landmark 1977 television series "Roots," studied liberal arts at Drake in 1949.

Andrea Zimmerman, JO'98, is associate editor for Babble.com, a multifaceted parenting website.

A clothing line launched by former Drake basketball star Klayton Korver, BS'08, and his brother Kyle, a guard for the Chicago Bulls, is making a difference in cities across the country.

Drake graduates and former teammates Adam Templeton and Josh Young recently signed contracts to play for professional basketball teams outside of the United States.