Category: Official News Releases

Awards will be presented and leaders will speak about the academic year ahead.

Panelists will represent Drake, Principal Financial Group, Aviva USA, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Volunteers will support research and disease prevention at the Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes, which is sponsored by the American Diabetes Association.

The flags were on display on Helmick Commons, east of Olmsted Center, through Sunday, Sept. 12.

Drake Municipal Observatory CONTACT: Tory Olson, 515-271-1834, tory.olson@drake.edu The Drake Municipal Observatory will begin its fall series with a presentation, “Ancient Views,” on Friday, Sept. 10. The event will start at 8 p.m. in the observatory at 4898 Observatory Road in Waveland Park on the west side of Des Moines. Parking is available adjacent to...

The event will feature 2,997 flags that represent all the people who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

An update on the program that has elicited reactions from the Drake family.

Allan Vestal said the judicial retention vote is "an extraordinary and limited tool to remove unfit judges, not a forum to overturn decisions of the court."

The event, sponsored by the Drake Adult Literacy Center and Des Moines Public Library, will feature a panel of literacy advocates.

Brian Albright, investigator of computational physics, will discuss the "X-Games of Contemporary Science."