Elizabeth Robertson, associate professor of English, will teach in Burkina Faso as the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant.
Category: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
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Hamad participates in Libyan Constitutional Drafting Assembly
Mahmoud Hamad was selected by the United Nations to co-lead a mediation team to solve disputes within the Libyan Constitutional Drafting Assembly.
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Lee Jolliffe authors chapters on free speech
Lee Jolliffe, associate professor of journalism, authored chapters in the newly issued book "An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America."
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Chen receives Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
Phillip Chen, professor of drawing and printmaking at Drake University, recently received the 2015/2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. The foundation has awarded Chen $20,000, for his work in printmaking. This is Chen’s second major art grant after receiving the Louis B. Comfort Tiffany Award in 2006. Established in 1985 through the generosity of the late Lee...
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Klipec publishes manuscript in Behavioral Brain Research journal
William Klipec, associate professor of psychology, recently published a research manuscript that has implications for the treatment of cocaine addiction.
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Researchers control ultrafast electrons in motion
A physicist from Drake University is part of an international research team that has developed a new method of studying and controlling some of the fastest processes in nature.
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Professor publishes pictorial history of the Iowa caucus
A new book by Drake University Associate Professor of Political Science Rachel Paine Caufield provides a pictorial history of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
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Drake faculty accompany Michael Cavanaugh
Nine Drake faculty members performed with the Des Moines Symphony, accompanying Michael Cavanaugh on the music of Billy Joel. Six faculty are regular members of the symphony, while three joined as substitutes and extras for the night.
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Perrine publishes “No Confession, No Mass”
The University of Nebraska Press recently published Associate Professor Jennifer Perrine’s manuscript, “No Confession, No Mass.” Perrine’s manuscript won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2014. She is also the author of In the Human Zoo, recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award...
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Iowa Supreme Court to honor SJMC Dean
The Iowa Supreme Court will recognize Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Kathleen Richardson and Des Moines Register Editorial Writer Rox Laird for their strong voice in support of justice. A recognition program will take place at 2 p.m. on Monday, November 23 in the Iowa Judicial Branch Building. Drake University Professor Emeritus...