Category: DU in the News

On Nov. 3, Thomas Coates, executive director and co-founder of Consumer Credit of Des Moines, will talk about personal financial responsibility at Drake University. The free event will begin at 7 p.m. at the Sheslow Auditorium. Consumer Credit of Des Moines is a nonprofit credit and debt counseling organization.

Dina Smith, Drake University associate professor of English, who has a doctorate in film studies, is quoted in an article about the significance of Iowa-born actress Jean Seberg to the French New Wave movement.

Several Drake University pharmacy and pre-pharmacy students participated in the DEA drug drop on Saturday. WHO TV interviewed pre-pharmacy student Krista Allbee.

Neil Hamilton, director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University, is quoted in a story about a man who is midway through the three-year process of converting most of his family's 100-year-old, 1,000-acre farm to production of organic corn and vegetables, grass-fed cattle and chickens raised outside of confinements.

Amy Powell, PharmD candidate 2013, writes about growing up with diabetes. She is in the diabetes concentration in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Drake University and the Iowa College Student Aid Commission have partnered to help students with loan-debt management. Through Iowa College Aid, students will use Buttonwood, a free online personal finance platform. Drake is the first university in Iowa to adopt the program.

Appearing at Drake University's Knapp Center Tuesday as part of the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture series, Garrison Keillor could just as well be your Iowa uncle, so familiar are his cracker barrel philosophies.

Thursday marks the 60th anniversary of the infamous "Johnny Bright Incident" when an Oklahoma A&M player intentionally knocked Drake's Bright out of the game with a vicious forearm to the face.

Former Drake University rower Chelsea Smith won a pair of Bronze medals earlier this week at the XVI Pan American Games. Smith's efforts helped push USA Rowing to five total medals through Wednesday. "She's a competitor," said Drake head coach Charlie DiSilvestro

Drake Law alumna Elizabeth Kruidenier passed away today. Iowans for decades have known Kruidenier and her late husband, David, through their philanthropy even if they had never met them.