Category: Official News Releases

This will be the second summer that Evan Repsholdt, who was born with bi-lateral hearing loss, will spend at NAVAIR.

The best-selling author will read from her new book "Passages in Caregiving," as part of her national tour and the AViD Series.

For the first time this year, Drake announced the nominees for the University’s highest honors for teachers and mentors — the Madelyn Levitt Teacher and Mentor of the Year awards. Nominees were honored during the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony last Sunday. They are listed below: Madelyn Levitt Teacher of the Year Award Nominees Aimee Beckmann-Collier, professor...

Faculty members Rachel Paine Caufield and Carol Spaulding-Kruse received Drake's highest honors for teachers and mentors at Drake's Undergraduate commencement ceremony.

As the caps and gowns were donned, one thing was clear for many graduates: the Drake experience is a family affair.

Taught by film studies expert Professor Dina Smith, the course will examine the lives of Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant and Doris Day.

Drake President David Maxwell performed a blues ballad with saxophonist Dick Oatts, who received an honorary degree.

Oatts, who teaches at Temple University, attended Drake before launching his successful career as a professional musician.

Senior Abby Dierks donned a robe first worn by her great grandmother in 1906 and also by her grandfather, Paul Morrison, in 1939.

Jane Lorentzen, a 1991 graduate of Drake Law School, will focus her speech on "A Time to Lead."