Category: eBlue Newsletter

Drake enrolled 863 first-year students this fall to meet the targeted enrollment level for the entering class.

Drake women's basketball players took time out from their preseason schedule to participate in the Kiwanis Miracle League fall season last week.

Mike Mahon, who served as sports information director at South Dakota from 1977-88, was inducted into the University of South Dakota Hall of Fame.

For the first time in school history, the Drake men's soccer team is ranked No. 1 in the Midwest Regional poll released by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Monday.

The new Don and Dori Byers RaySociety Classroom was dedicated to the group Sept. 16 during a ribbon-cutting ceremony last month.

The women's basketball team is scheduled for 29 games this season and the men's season includes 31 games.

Michael Emerson, FA'76, recently received an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Benjamin Linus on the ABC-TV show "Lost."

Alice Jordan, FA'38, will be honored as Drake's four choirs present a concert of "Love, Legacy and Laugher" and perform her piece, "All Things Are Thine."

After dreaming of her next visit to Venezuela since age 17, Darcie Vandegrift returned to the country as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2008-09 academic year at University of the Andes.

Maya Angelou, an award-winning writer, poet, journalist and activist hailed by many as one of great voices of contemporary literature, will present the next Bucksbaum Lecture on Oct. 8.