Category: Alumni

More children will have new learning opportunities, thanks to $694,172 of federal funding in support of Drake Head Start, Iowa’s largest program dedicated to early childhood education.

Lori Blachford was appointed as the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's new Fisher-Stelter chair of magazine journalism.

Select Drake athletic events will be streamed live via a broadband video and audio channel that features live and on-demand content about Drake athletics.

An insightful presentation by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's son and biographer William Taubman drew a crowd of 650 to Drake as part of Iowa's 50th anniversary of Khrushchev's visit.

Jimmy Borendame, an assistant coach the last five seasons at Virginia Tech, including this past year serving as associate head coach, has been named head men's tennis coach at Drake.

The University will host a dinner and public lecture featuring scholar William Taubman and Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev.

A group of Drake law students helped cast doubt on the reliability of eyewitness identification in an experiment where they misidentified a thief.

Students in the College of Business and Administration's graduate programs will participate in Leadership Essentials, a workshop conducted by Dardis Communications Inc.

Erin Frazee was selected for the 2008-2009 Excellence in Public Health Award by the United States Public Heath Service.

Jim Noyce, BN'78, has been named senior adviser to Drake Athletics Director Sandy Hatfield Clubb and major gifts officer for the Bulldogs.