“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).
Category: Faculty 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.
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.
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.
Fuller honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from Iowa Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
Kristi Fuller, assistant director of continuing student programs in the Office of Student Financial Planning at Drake University, was recently honored with the John Heisner Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award.
Drake professors receive $12,000 grant for research in synthetic biology
The organizers of the National Science Foundation-funded Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) Synthetic Biology workshop honored two Drake University professors with a $12,000 grant.
Drake professor presents research at the annual Iowa Microscopy Society Fall Symposium at the Carver College of Medicine
Jerry E. Honts, associate professor of biology at Drake University and Robert Sterner, biochemistry, cell & molecular biology major at Drake University, were invited to present their latest research at the Iowa Microscopy Society’s annual symposium.
Professor Tom Rosburg receives federal funding for wetlands project
Tom Rosburg, professor of biology at Drake University, recently received federal grant funding from the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in the amount of $94,283.
Maura Lyons receives $9,500 in grants for exhibit at the Anderson Gallery
Lyons received two separate grants on behalf of the Anderson Gallery—one in the amount of $4,500 from the State Historical Society, Inc., and another in the amount of $5,000 from Humanities Iowa
Drake professor receives Dissertation of the Year Award
Alyssa Samek, visiting professor of rhetoric at Drake University, was honored with the first annual Dissertation of the Year Award from the GLBTQ Division and the Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns within the National Communication Association. The GLBTQ Dissertation of the Year Award acknowledges one exceptional dissertation that is advancing GLBTQ communication. Samek is a first-year...