Category: eBlue Newsletter

  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.

The Drake Alumni Office is seeking alumni worldwide to help organize the annual Bulldog Bashes in their cities.

Actuaries, those number-crunching whizzes who help determine insurance premiums based on the odds of bad things happening, are in high demand these days, because new mathematical models are needed to respond to natural disaster trends and the growing complexity of health care insurance.

Broadway actor and Des Moines native Philip Lehl, FA'86, will return to Des Moines this month in a special production of Doug Wright's "I Am My Own Wife," winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play in 2004.

Nearly 90 Drake alumni and faculty members will increase their workload this month as volunteers for Drake's National Alumni Scholarship Program. They will spend Feb. 10 and 24 interviewing qualified applicants for the University's Alumni and Carpenter scholarships in this prestigious annual competition.

The College of Business & Public Administration showcased career paths in insurance at a special event Feb. 7. The keynote speaker was William R. Berkley, CEO and president of W. R. Berkley Corp., which operates Continental Western in Urbandale.

Drake's new Career bluePrint lets you mentor Drake students in their career journeys and also advance your own career.

The revised and expanded film, "A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character of Perry, Iowa," a documentary chronicling the rapid ethnic diversification of the community, premiered at Drake Feb. 6.

Drake’s campus will be awash in a wave of interdisciplinary entrepreneurship later this month with events coinciding with Entrepreneurship Week USA.

The Drake Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, at First United Methodist Church, 823 Merchant Street, Emporia, Kan.