Drake volleyball team improves to 7-1 with victory over Fresno State; Basketball players Emmenecker, Martin receive Howlett Award; Former athletic administrator remembered for impact on Drake women's basketball; and Plans unveiled for celebrating the 100th running of Drake Relays.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Two Drake profs confer with other scholars at Oxford; Prof. Dean Wright remembered for his commitment to teaching and activism; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to give Opperman Lecture; Former ambassador to deliver Drake's Bucksbaum lecture Oct. 5; Constitutional Law Lecture series to feature highly accomplished attorneys and scholars; and Students experience poverty first-hand in Ethiopia.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES NEWS
Drake's Anderson Gallery opened the fall season with an exhibition of hundreds of 19th century advertising trade cards that feature images of Chinese people or motifs.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION NEWS
For the second consecutive year, Drake has been named Best MBA Program in the Business Record's annual Best of Des Moines readers' poll.
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES NEWS
Drake University students who started classes on Monday, Aug. 25, found a non-smoking campus and new programs to help smokers who want to quit.
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION NEWS
Drake students launched blogs and served as interns at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this summer.
Drake West Village opens with ribbon-cutting celebration; Starbucks and The Stadium Grill & Bar to open soon
Drake West Village’s grand opening featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Drake West Village, the $37 million mixed-use housing and retail complex that Drake University and Hubbell Realty Company developed at 31st Street and Carpenter Avenue, officially opened today with a ribbon-cutting celebration. Hubbell Realty Company president and CEO Rick Tollakson announced at the ceremony that the...
LAW SCHOOL NEWS
Drake University Law School took the No. 2 spot as Best in Practical Training in the National Jurist Law School Rankings.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION NEWS
Bob Stensrud, professor of education at Drake, believes that teaching diversity should involve more than sitting in a classroom.