Category: eBlue Newsletter

Rankings show improvements in bar passage rate, student/faculty ratio; College of Pharmacy ties for fifth among private institutions in new rankings; Drake SIFE team win honors in regional tournament; Drake to honor Richard Morrow with Weaver medal; StormReady: Drake is prepared to safeguard people, property from severe weather; Drake students change lives with alternative spring break.

Women's basketball team enjoys sensational season; Bulldogs chalk up No. 39 extending win streak in 7-0 victory over Bradley; and Drake Relays tickets on sale.

After serving the West Des Moines Community School District for 30 years, eighth-grade teacher Mary Brooks was honored with the 2008 Drake University School of Education Excellence in Education Award.

Each year in its main stage season, Drake Theatre typically selects one student from multiple applicants to direct a full-length production -- a chance offered by very few universities. To set itself apart even more, this year instead of one show, Drake Theatre presented three student-directed plays.

Double D Awards honor outstanding Drake letter winners; Whorton named to ESPN The Magazine Academmic All-America squad; and Emmenecker named Basketball Academic All-American of Year.

Agricultural law expert and professor Neil Hamilton shared his expertise in a recent story about urban sprawl on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Drake University's student-run scoreboard crew is on a winning streak, too, this season providing fans with exciting game footage, up-to-date graphics and online video streaming of the nation's 15th ranked men's basketball team.

Adam Emmenecker scored 14 points and set a Drake single-season assist mark Saturday as the 20th-ranked Bulldogs held off Wichita State, 73-63, in the MVC regular-season finale for both teams.

The Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor -- the highest award presented by the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences -- will be awarded to Richard Morrow, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of pharmacology.

Let’s DU Lunch March 12, April 9; Drake Choir coming to northern Iowa, Minnesota’s Twin Cities this month; Have fun, fun, fun with fellow alumni at the Hollywood Bowl and Brian Wilson Sept. 13.