Category: DU in the News

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Students gave health screenings to the community at Southridge Mall.

Dolph Pulliam said, after receiving the Spirit of the Valley award from the Missouri Valley Conference Thursday, that he never regretted turning down professional sports offers to work at Drake. "I became involved in the community, and I get so much joy out of speaking to young people, from being an ambassador for Drake. I have been so blessed to be a part of the University."

Two agriculture organizations at Drake University and Iowa State University have put together a website designed to give landowners a source of information on how to use leases to encourage soil conservation. Ed Cox of the Drake Agricultural Law Center says more than half of the farmland in Iowa is now rented and 55-percent of the land is owned by people over the age of 65. Neil Hamilton, the director of the Drake Ag Law Center says that's why the created "SALT" or the Sustainable Agricultural Land St

Catherine Wilson Gillespie, a professor in the Drake University School of Education, is quoted on a host of reasons why trying to teach a spouse may be problematic. "Mainly, the thing that is likely to go wrong is that the teacher/student relationship is not the power relationship of choice for most married couples," she said.

Other states are once again racing to move up their election primaries to compete with Iowa to be first. Dennis Goldford, Drake political science professor, said national parties have little control over state parties. Efforts to sanction state parties by reducing the number of delegates they can send to the national convention have had limited success, he said.

Pam Pepper, director of development operations and annual fund programs for Drake University, was officially elected to the Indianola City Council on March 1. She was appointed to fill a vacant At Large council seat on Jan. 3.

Drake alumnus Michael Strong joined Teach for America Corps after graduating from Drake University in 2009 with a degree in biology. Although Teach for America is a two-year program, Strong is considering an admittance deferral to stay in the classroom a third year. He is currently applying to medical school.

A preview of the March 3 guest lecture by Erich Uffelman, who teaches chemistry at Virginia's Washington and Lee University. Uffelman to discuss the new gadgets conservators use to study centuries-old paintings. He'll bring one of the portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers he uses to detect hidden layers in works by the Dutch Masters, his specialty.

Drake pharmacy alumna Tobi Snyder, who now works as a geriatric pharmacist in Colorado, was profiled prior to a trip she is taking to reconnect with family from Vietnam. She was adopted there 40 years ago.

Drake alumna Marguerite Purcell, who graduated in 1929 at 18 with a degree in education, is profiled. By the 1930s, she was a kindergarten pioneer in rural Iowa, where early childhood education was just catching on.