Category: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Clarence Padilla will lead the Des Moines Metro Concert Band and the Metro Big Band at Music Under the Stars, June 17–July 22.

Faculty members Linda Krypel and Patrick Heaston received Drake's highest faculty honors.

Jen Hogan has been selected as an Institute Scholar for the "Institute at the Institute" conference to be held at Butler University.

Erin Gabriel received the Iowa Admission Professional of the Year Award from the Iowa ACAC.

The Drake Board of Trustees recently approved 26 faculty members to receive promotions and/or tenure.

Kirk Martin and the Chinese Cultural Exchange Program received a $1,000 grant from the Iowa Arts Council.

Drake's Agricultural Law Center and Professor Neil Hamilton receive grant from Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust.

The School of Education received an International Distance Learning Award at the United States Distance Learning Association's Annual Conference.

Thomas Rosburg, professor of biology, has been awarded a $50,000 grant to study the effects of patch-burn grazing by cattle.

Neil Hamilton and Ed Cox received a grant of more than $41,000 for their Sustainable Agricultural Land Tenure Initiative.