Category: eBlue Newsletter

Select Drake athletic events will be streamed live via a broadband video and audio channel that features live and on-demand content about Drake athletics.

An insightful presentation by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's son and biographer William Taubman drew a crowd of 650 to Drake as part of Iowa's 50th anniversary of Khrushchev's visit.

Jimmy Borendame, an assistant coach the last five seasons at Virginia Tech, including this past year serving as associate head coach, has been named head men's tennis coach at Drake.

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.

The University will host a dinner and public lecture featuring scholar William Taubman and Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev.

Students in the College of Business and Administration's graduate programs will participate in Leadership Essentials, a workshop conducted by Dardis Communications Inc.

Jim Noyce, BN'78, has been named senior adviser to Drake Athletics Director Sandy Hatfield Clubb and major gifts officer for the Bulldogs.

Erin Frazee was selected for the 2008-2009 Excellence in Public Health Award by the United States Public Heath Service.

Former Drake Assistant Football Coach Jim Johnson died last month at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after a battle with cancer.