Senior Carol Kim and May graduate Johanna Desprez spent much of the summer in the Gishwati Forest in Rwanda, where the Des Moines-based Great Ape Trust runs a chimpanzee research and reforestation project. They designed their own project and did their own field work.
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Drake football: Chris Creighton among 20 finalists for Eddie Robinson Award
Drake head football coach Chris Creighton is among 20 coaches who make up the list of finalists announced Monday for the 25th Eddie Robinson Award, which honors the national coach of the year in the Football Championship Subdivision.
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Five things you should know about running a successful fundraising campaign
John P. Smith, vice president for Alumni and Development, shared insights learned through distinctlyDrake, which reached its financial midpoint this fall.
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Michele Bachmann finds cooler crowd at Drake University
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received a cooler welcome at Drake University than she's accustomed to on her campaign travels through Iowa. A crowd of hundreds asked far more pointed questions than she typically receives.
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Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured
Michele Bachmann appeared at a town hall at Drake University today. Campus Republicans sponsored the event and helped pack the room.When the Republican presidential candidate took questions, some students pepped her with tough questions.
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US students set sights beyond Europe
The number of Americans who, like Drake University student Ian Weller, are choosing to study abroad in unconventional destinations such as Egypt, India and China is rising dramatically, according to a report released this week by the Institute of International Education, while interest in traditional destinations such as Western Europe is comparatively flat.
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The $200,000-a-Year Mine Worker
William Boal, a professor at Drake University who studies the labor economics of mining, said the higher salaries of Australian miners reflect in part the higher expenses in isolated areas.
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Deficit-cutting exercise brings “˜super committee’ to Iowa
Drake University hosted an interactive event conducted by fiscal-reform advocacy group the Concord Coalition where nearly 200 community members gathered for an exercise in slashing federal government spending, boosting taxes and beginning to rein in unsustainable federal deficits and debt.
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SBA’s entrepreneurial “˜boot camp’ winds up
Jim Watson, president of Minneapolis electronic discovery company Certus EDM, said "I have an MBA from Drake University, and the thing I liked about the program was that it wasn't geared toward business knowledge but rather toward entrepreneurial success."
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On campus: Drake’s cutting-edge lab excites pharmacy students
A remodeled floor in Drake's pharmacy building includes incubators, cells frozen in a liquid nitrogen tube used for DNA samples, genetic sequencers and computers that give students hands-on research capabilities.