Category: eBlue Newsletter

Six Drake University students traveled to Appalachia on Drake’s first official alternative spring break trip March 13-19. Though service trips had been organized by other campus groups, such as Habitat for Humanity in the past, this was the first organized by the Office of Student Life. “Over the past few years we’ve been working to...

The author of books on creativity and collaboration started by sharing some of the insights she's gained during her more than 45 years in dance.

The eighth annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences highlights collaborative work of undergraduates and faculty, featuring a record number of scientific research projects from multiple departments.

The Pharmacogenomics Teaching and Research Laboratory will not only benefit students, but that the facilities will enhance faculty research projects across science departments and spur collaboration across institutions.

Drake’s Arts and Sciences faculty is growing. In the past two years the college has added six faculty lines, in addition to replacing lines vacated by retirement or resignation. Among the recent hires is Nanci Ross, assistant professor of ethnobotany, whose background includes research experience from the Missouri Botanical Garden to the tropics in Guatemala...

The Comparative Management and Policy Analysis in A Global Context course, which this year focused on food policy as it relates to social justice, hunger and sustainability, recently took graduate students and alumni through six European countries over 18 days.

This April, the annual Iowa Distance Learning Association Conference will address the need for educators to understand and correctly use instructional technology.

  Monday, April 25 32nd Annual Beautiful  Bulldog Contest 10:45 a.m.–1 p.m. Nollen Plaza, Downtown Des Moines Sponsored by Bankers Trust and Prairie Meadows Tuesday, April 26 Grand Blue Mile 5:30 p.m. Downtown Des Moines Sponsored by Wellmark Blue Cross  Blue Shield and Drake Relays Wednesday, April 27 Downtown Street Painting 1-4 p.m. Court Avenue...

Closely cropped, this could be a halftime scenario: Ten football players in uniform huddle up — smashed paper cups and towels strewn about the floor. They lean forward, listening for directions on how to better position themselves. The athletes are intensely focused; a whiteboard in the room is scribbled with plays. The players are huddled...