Category: eBlue Newsletter

Drake Singing Valentines will profess your love a capella-style by delivering a song and flowers to your beloved’s workplace or home on Wednesday, Feb. 14.

Drake Athletics will recognize four outstanding alumni with the Drake Double D Award Saturday, Feb. 17, at a dinner starting at 4:30 p.m. at the Hotel Savery in Des Moines.

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.

Drake pharmacy students will devote Wednesday, Feb. 21, to a series of lectures, discussions and professional development activities as part of the College of Pharmacy and Health Science's 20th annual student-organized Pharmacy Day.

Congratulations to this year’s alumni award winners: Jonathan Azu, BN’99, Young Alumni Achievement Award Vinaya Sharma, BN’93, Young Alumni Loyalty Award Charla Lawhon, JO’78, Alumni Achievement Award William “Bill” Buchanan, BN’57, Alumni Loyalty Award Betty Grandquist, LA’74, Distinguished Service Award The Drake National Alumni Association will honor these five alumni for their accomplishments and contributions to...