Drake recently announced $5.25 million worth of gifts that will sponsor a pair of endowed faculty chairs and provide scholarship opportunities at the Drake Law School.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s Super Lawyer
John F. Gelson, a 1981 Drake University Law School graduate, doesn't change clothes in a phone booth or leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he's twice earned the title of super.
The Bard in brief: Friends of Drake Arts present ‘Shakespeare (Abridged)’
A trio of Drake faculty and alumni will present all 37 of William Shakespeare's plays - in less than two hours - in performances on Sept. 8 and 9.
Career seminars target biz, j-students
Nationwide Foundation recently donated $15,000 to Drake University to support/fund a new Career Seminar Series for business and journalism students. This donation will help to fund Drake's Career Seminar Series.
Drake, Hubbell Realty partner on $34-million retail, housing development
Drake University and Hubbell Realty leaders recently announced plans for a $34-million housing and retail development at 30th Street and Carpenter Avenue.
Move over Cyclones, Drake invades Ames: CBPA to offer MPA at Mary Greeley
Drake will offer its Master of Public Administration program at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, beginning with the 2006 fall semester.
Head Start honored by reading group
Reading Is Fundamental Inc., the nation's oldest and largest children's and family literacy nonprofit group, selected Drake University Head Start as a recipient of RIF Program Excellence Honors 2006, an award sponsored by MetLife Foundation.
Drake junior’s folk music essay rocks writing contest
Dan Connelly, a junior English and secondary teaching major at Drake University, recently won 33 1/3's "Under 21 Writing Contest," which landed him $250 and publication in the latest installment of a literary book series.
From the editor
Greetings and salutations from the sweat belt (better known as Des Moines, the home of your beloved alma mater, Drake University). Despite the withering summer temperatures squatting over the Midwest this summer, we remained busy Bulldogs on campus and around the nation. Construction is the theme of our summer edition, from a planned student housing...
Pharmacy students gain compounding lab with gift from Larry and Sandy Mayhew
Drake pharmacy students are gaining a state-of-the-art compounding laboratory where they'll learn how to prepare medications that are not commercially available, thanks to a $500,000 gift from Drake alumnus Larry Mayhew and his wife, Sandy.