Category: eBlue Newsletter

Drake University Adult Literacy Center helped improve the lives of 100 Des Moines-area residents during the last year. Despite this success, these adults account for less than 0.1 percent of the estimated 90,000 Polk County residents who struggle daily to read signs, job applications, medicine labels and even the screens of ATMs.

Jessica Lang, AS'07, and Rickey Hunley, AS'05 have joined the Vice Provost Office for Student Affairs and Academic Excellence as entering first year advisers (EFR). They will work with entering first-year students and faculty to help students transition to Drake, and to strengthen student and faculty relationships.

Kirsten Holmstedt, JO’85, is the author of a new book that tells the true-life war stories of 12 women in the military.

The Drake men's basketball team recently scored the No. 2 spot on The Des Moines Register's "Iowa's Best," a list of the top 20 sports teams in Iowa's history.

Fatima Suleman would like students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, to get out of their comfort zone and try studying abroad at Drake University.

Tickets are still available for a great night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with Drake alumni and friends on Sunday, Sept. 16.

Thursday, July 26, marked the conclusion of the 2007 Drake Undergraduate Science Collaborative Institute (DUSCI) Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

The Drake University African-American Alumni Reunion on Sept. 28-30 invites alumni to return to campus to reconnect with each other, with students, faculty and staff, and with the University.

The College of Business and Public Administration is taking the school's career focus to the next level by creating the new CBPA Career Center.

Join the Drake University National Alumni Association and Department of Athletics for an exciting season of Bulldog football with several special events.