Category: eBlue Newsletter

Debra K. Lukehart, assistant vice president of communication and marketing at Augustana College, has been named executive director of marketing and communications at Drake.

Adam Liptak will present "The Roberts Court in the Obama Era: A Reporter's Reflections" as part of Drake's Constitution Day celebration.

More children will have new learning opportunities, thanks to $694,172 of federal funding in support of Drake Head Start, Iowa’s largest program dedicated to early childhood education.

Lori Blachford was appointed as the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's new Fisher-Stelter chair of magazine journalism.

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

Stephen Rapp, LW'74, prosecutor of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone, has been confirmed by the Senate for a key U.S. State Department post.

This summer, Drake's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences lost two prominent alumni -- Larry M. Simonsmeier, PH'67, and Alfred F. Viktor, PH'49.

Drake University First Lady Madeleine Maxwell has been named to "Women of Influence: Class of 2009" by the Des Moines Business Record.

A group of Drake law students helped cast doubt on the reliability of eyewitness identification in an experiment where they misidentified a thief.

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