On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Drake University will host Keegan Kautzky, director of national education programs for the World Food Prize Foundation, for a discussion on food insecurity and hunger.
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Harkin Institute presents the fall Sussman Lecture: A Conversation with Céline Cousteau
On Oct. 1, Céline Cousteau, a French explorer, education ambassador, and documentary filmmaker, will deliver a lecture on water issues—From the Amazon to the Oceans to Iowa—as part of the Sussman Lecture Series presented by the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement.
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Drake University awarded nearly $1 million for rehabilitation counseling
In an announcement made by Senator Tom Harkin, the U.S. Department of Education Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program awarded Drake University a major grant to increase the number of individuals trained in providing all areas of rehabilitation services to people with disabilities.
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Professor Thomas R. Rosburg to deliver 30th Annual Stalnaker Lecture
Thomas R. Rosburg, professor of biology at Drake University, will deliver the 30th Annual Luther W. Stalnaker Lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium.
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Drake’s public relations program earns prestigious certification
The Drake public relations program is one of only 34 programs worldwide to earn the Certification in Education for Public Relations (CEPR).
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Drake M.B.A. program voted best in the metro for eighth year in a row
Business Record readers voted Drake’s Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program as best in the metro area for the eighth year in a row in the publication’s “Best of Des Moines” survey.
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International writers visit Drake as part of the Susan Glaspell Writers & Critics Reading Series
Three writers from the University of Iowa International Writing Program will be visiting Drake University on Sept. 23 for a presentation titled “Being a Writer in the World: Writing as World Citizenship.”
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Zen Buddhist scholar to discuss the ineffable as part of The Comparison Project
Gereon Kopf, associate professor of religion at Luther College, will deliver a lecture titled “When Expression is Expressed, Non-Expression is Not-Expressed: A Zen Buddhist Approach to Talking About the Ineffable” as part of The Comparison Project’s fall 2014 programming.
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Drake University welcomed into CFA Institute University Recognition Program
The Drake University College of Business and Public Administration (CBPA) is the most recent university to be welcomed into the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute University Recognition Program.
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Constitution Day to discuss racial discrimination on 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, will serve as the 2014 Constitution Day speaker at Drake University on Sept. 15. Her public lecture, “Re-Articulating the Harm of Discrimination: An Examination of Brown v. Board of Education at 60,” will be held at 3 p.m. in Drake University’s Sussman Theater.