Category: Official News Releases

Weston Sprott, trombonist in the New York City Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has been named Drake University's 2011 Skinner Family Trombone Guest Artist. He will conduct a masterclass and perform a guest recital at Drake.

A recent $112,000 grant from the Grow Iowa Values Fund for the second phase of Drake's Pharmacogenomics Teaching and Research Laboratory project will help support acquisition of equipment and the design of a rigorous pharmacogenomics curriculum. The lab is currently under development to open in the fall of 2012.

Mohammed Alshagawi, assistant professor of strategic management at King Faisal University in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia, will deliver a lecture on the conditions spurring Saudi women to create their own jobs.

The first lecture in the series will examine the science behind the spring season and it's relationship to the motions of the Earth.

LeMonnier and officials from Mexico and Pennsylvania will take charge of game between Drake University and CONADEIP All Stars in Africa on May 21

A scientist who studied a small population of chimpanzees facing extinction in a tiny pocket of African rain forest will speak about her experiences at a free public lecture.

This year's Beautiful Bulldog candidates hail from Colorado, South Carolina, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. They'll vie for the title on April 25.

James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab Americans Institute and Zogby International polling and market research firm, aims to debunk the myths and biases surrounding the Arab world in his latest lecture, "Arab Voices."

Under the direction of Aimee Beckmann-Collier, the Drake Choir and Chamber Choir will perform works by Haydn and Gershwin.

After 23 years of directing theatre productions at Drake, Clive Elliott will direct his final show, which runs through Sunday, March 6.