Category: eBlue Newsletter

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.

After its closing in the early '90s, the Drake chapter of the Lambda Kappa Sigma pharmacy fraternity, was reinstated recently, thanks to Drake students.

Thanks to the recent renovation of Cole Hall -- home of the Admission Office -- prospective students are forming their first impressions of Drake in a beautifully decorated and updated building filled with natural light.

When Drake University's Associate Professor of Journalism Ronda Menke sought out Des Moines businesswoman J. Ann Selzer to teach at Drake, she knew she was picking a winner.

Let's DU Lunch; Drake golfers will swing in San Diego Feb. 16; Watch the Bulldogs in D.C. Feb. 19; Alumni event in Naples Feb. 21; and Have a blast at a Bulldog Bash.

Drake University will participate in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's national cancer awareness "Think Pink" week when the women's basketball team takes on Southern Illinois Saturday, Feb. 16.