Category: Official News Releases

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

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."

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

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."

Peter K. Yu's article appears in the June 2010 issue of eJournal USA and has been translated into multiple languages.

Janet Wirth-Cauchon, associate professor of sociology, will discuss "Exploring the New Materialist Feminisms."

No other institution in the nation had as many finalists in the Associated Collegiate Press' newspaper and magazine categories as Drake.

Drake University senior Ryan Henderson, of Lenexa, Kan., passed away in the early morning Sunday, Sept. 5. President David Maxwell released the following statement at noon on Sept. 5: “It is my painfully sad duty to inform you that at approximately 6:30 a.m. today Ryan T. Henderson, a senior from Lenexa, Kan., was found deceased...

Here is the full text of Dean Allan W. Vestal's remarks.