Heidi Sleister, associate professor of genetics, and Jerry Honts, associate professor of cell and molecular biology, recently received a NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) Curriculum Development Grant in the amount of $5,000.
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Kristi Fuller elected president-elect for IASFAA
Kristi Fuller, assistant director of continuing student programs in the Office of Student Financial Planning at Drake University, was recently elected president-elect of the Iowa Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (IASFAA).
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2014-02-062014-02-06by Jeremy SieversIn College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesFaculty and Staff Accomplishments
Gentry earns NASA EPSCoR funding for pharmacotherapy project
Brian Gentry, assistant professor of pharmacology, received a grant for his project titled, “Pharmacological Enhancement of Anti-Viral Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Herpes Virus Infections.”
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2014-02-062014-02-14by Jeremy SieversIn ArtSci NewsCAS NewsFaculty and Staff AccomplishmentsFine Arts at Drake
Courard-Hauri earns funding for STEM curriculum development
David Courard-Hauri, associate professor of environmental science and program chair, received funding for his project titled, “STEM Curriculum Development: Sophomore-Level Case Study Analysis.”
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Drake Law professor to discuss Obama’s trade policy at Yale Law School
Peter K. Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and the director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake Law School, will join leading academics and global activists in a public conference on "Trade and Transparency in the Internet Age" at Yale Law School.
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2014-01-232014-01-23by Jeremy SieversIn Faculty and Staff AccomplishmentsZimpleman College of Business
Drake professor Tom Swartwood on NBC’s TODAY Show
Tom Swartwood, assistant professor of practice in entrepreneurship at Drake University was featured on NBC’s TODAY Show as part of the “healthy, wealthy and wise” series.
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2014-01-142019-07-02by Jeremy SieversIn College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesePharm NewsletterFaculty and Staff Accomplishments
Pharmacy student leadership program highlighted in special issue of national journal
“Impact of a Student Leadership Development Program,” written by Renae Chesnut and Jennifer Tran-Johnson in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was one of seven manuscripts selected for the Leadership Issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE).
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2014-01-082014-01-09by Jeremy SieversIn College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesFaculty and Staff Accomplishments
CPHS professors continue drug delivery research with NASA grant
This collaborative project between Abebe Mengesha, assistant professor of pharmaceutics and Pramod Mahajan, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is a continuation of an earlier project also made possible through a grant from NASA’s EPSCoR program.
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Drake professor to serve as associate editor for international publication
Beginning January 2014, Olga Lazareva, assistant professor of psychology at Drake University will be an associate editor at Behavioural Processes, a highly recognized journal of psychology that publishes research in animal behavior and comparative psychology.
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Joan McAlister receives visual communication award
Professor McAlister received the award in November at the Visual Communication Division Business Meeting at the National Communication Association Convention in Washington D.C. The award is the most competitive in its division.