Category: eBlue Newsletter

With fewer than 100 days remaining until the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, presidential campaigns are revving into high gear across the state, and Drake is launching the Iowa Caucus Project.

For the second year, the Drake men's basketball team will play in a school record tying three regular-season tournaments to highlight a 30-game schedule for the upcoming 2007-08 season.

Wanda Everage, LA’72, has been named Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate by the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences for outstanding work in the field of education.

Drake alumni are starting a new tradition of providing students with white lab coats to which mark the beginning of the students' professional career and Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Three members of the Drake University staff were awarded Madelyn M. Levitt Awards on Thursday, Sept. 20, at the annual Fall Faculty and Staff Convocation in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.

The Drake University Writers and Critics Series will host the Alumni Writers Festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Oct. 11, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.

More than 150 African-American alumni and students socialized, networked and explored ways to keep connected with each other and the University during a special reunion Sept. 28-30 themed "With Pride and Purpose."

A conference on "Legal and Ethical Issues of New Media" will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in the courtroom of Drake University's Neal and Bea Smith Law Center, 2400 University Ave. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will explore issues raised by social networking, blogs, wikis, vlogs and citizen journalists.

Before entering the Drake School of Education’s graduate program, Scott Murphey’s experiences set him apart from the average student in the program. Murphey, who has a bachelor’s degree in business and sports management from Quincy University, began working with AmeriCorps in inner-city Chicago after graduation.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof brought the terrors of Darfur home to the Drake community in his lecture "Why Troubles in Darfur and Other Parts of the World Matter to Us," on Sept. 25, as part of the annual Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture series.