The Drake University Department of Theatre Arts will present the Irish musical “A Man of No Importance," April 30-May 3.
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Memory Prints
For Phillip Chen, inspiration is everywhere: an antique spike from a circus tent, the stories of his great-grandfather working in a California gold mining town, or even the rock piles his children arrange in their backyard. From this collection of materials, ideas, stories, and histories, Chen, professor of art and design and printmaker, creates works...
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2015-04-212019-06-26by Ashton HockmanIn AlumniArtSci NewsCAS NewsCollege of Pharmacy and Health ScienceseBlue NewsletterFine Arts at Drake
Art Imitates Life
It is a masterful design of cells and tissue, organs and vessels, ligaments and bone. The human body is a work of art. Dr. Meyer Emanuel understood its intricacies and translated them with brush and palette. The urologist and gastrointestinal surgeon took to the canvas at age 55, and over the next three decades produced...
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Drake University a Tree Campus 2014 USA Recipient
Drake University has received the 2014 Tree Campus USA recognition by the National Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. Created in 2008, Tree Campus USA is a national program that honors colleges and universities for engaging their students and staff in conservation goals. In its sixth year, Tree Campus...
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2015-04-102015-04-17by Ashton HockmanIn ArtSci NewsCAS NewsCollege of Pharmacy and Health SciencesOfficial News ReleasesSchool of Education
DUSCI presents 12th annual DUCURS event
The 12th annual DUCURS event, which is free and open to the public, is in the Olmsted Center from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 16. DUCURS provides a platform for students to share their findings with peers and others engaged in scientific exploration.
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The Comparison Project to host scholar of Muslim mysticism
The Comparison Project hosts Tamara Albertini, professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i, for a lecture on Muslim mysticism on Thursday, April 16.
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2015-04-022015-04-17by Aaron JacoIn ArtSci NewsCAS NewsCollege of Pharmacy and Health SciencesOfficial News ReleasesSchool of Education
Drake to host free STEM Festival for K-12 youth
Drake University will host a free, family-friendly STEM Festival for students in grades K-12 and their families on April 16.
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2015-04-022015-04-02by Aaron JacoIn ArtSci NewsCAS NewsFaculty and Staff AccomplishmentsOfficial News Releases
Drake professor’s documentary to screen alongside Smithsonian Institution exhibition on immigration in the U.S.
A documentary film co-produced by Drake University English Professor Jody Swilky will be screened in Iowa in conjunction with a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on immigration.
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Drake professor receives NSF grant to study regulation, practice of out-of-hospital midwifery in the United States
Renee Cramer, associate professor of law, politics, and society, has received a $76,244 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of regulation, activism, and awareness on out-of-hospital midwifery care in the United States.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to discuss children immigration at Drake University
Sonia Nazario will deliver "Enrique's Journey and America's Children Immigration Dilemma" at 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 3, in Meredith Hall 101.