Category: DU in the News

Drake University students Carol Kim and Johanna Desprez will spend the summer in Rwanda, working with the Great Ape Trust conducting research in the Gishwati Forest.

Drake student Ryan Price was among 40 college students on a 10-day journey to commemorate the Freedom Rides, which successfully challenged Jim Crow laws that enforced segregated travel.

Richard Lapchick, director of both the National Consortium for Academics and Sports and the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, writes about the significance of Drake's involvement in the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl.

From diagnosis through chemotherapy, Shiv Morjaria, a 20-year-old Drake student from Kenya, has received support from fellow members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Mike Traxinger, who studied agricultural law at Drake University, began a Des Moines chapter of the New Leaders Council, a nationwide organization that recruits emerging progressive leaders.

Current Drake student Seejo Valacheril, who won top sophomore and junior student of the year honors at Drake and who has served as Student Senator-At-Large for the past three years, was profiled by a hometown web outlet.

As the NFL lockout continues, there was some solace as the sport took its first steps into a new continent. The Arusha Times noted the enthusiasm greeting the first ever game of American football in Africa, when Iowa's Drake University played an All-Stars side from Mexico.

Drake alumna Judy Sagen will retire from teaching at Eastview High School in Minnesota in order to begin a community choral group.

The Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, said that what made the Kilimanjaro Bowl special was that the student athletes came to Tanzania to show the world that American football was not just about winning the game but about sportsmanship and service.

Drake University men's basketball head coach Mark Phelps announced three additions to his coaching staff. Brett Nelson, in his seventh season as a collegiate coach after an All-America career at Florida, joins the staff as assistant coach, while former Arizona State point guard Jamelle McMillan was named coordinator of basketball operations and former Drake guard Ryan Wedel was named graduate manager.