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Drake will honor six outstanding alumni at the Annual Alumni Awards Dinner Friday, May 16.

Drake’s mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. The Drake experience is distinguished by collaborative learning among students, faculty, and staff and by the integration of the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation.    

Whether working one-on-one with students or addressing a lecture hall filled with more than 200 of them, Drake University Professor of Marketing Chip Miller is making sure his expertise has a lasting impact on many students for years to come.

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.

Six Drake students recently represented Italy and Hungary in the State University of New York (SUNY) Model European Union Simulation at Izmir University in Izmir, Turkey. The students were Alison Bowlin, Meghan Fleming, Christopher Huszar, Anna Kunst, Adam Stone and Randall Weigand.

Drake alumnus Bruce Foster will bring his expertise in financial services back to campus to kick off the spring 2008 Executive in Residence series in Drake's School of Management and Communication on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

Former Dean of Drake University's School of Education Jamie Ferrare will give the keynote address at the school's annual Alumni Awards and Senior Recognition Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Drake University's moot court team of Siva Kasinathan and Katharine Willey won second place in the brief writing contest for petitioner at the 2008 national tournament of the American Collegiate Moot Court Association.

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