Category: Official News Releases

Both of Drake University's jazz ensembles will perform free concerts in April in Sheslow Auditorium.

Drake's spring International Film Series will conclude with a screening of "The Lives of Others," a German film with English subtitles.

With a giant stuffed bulldog on his arm, Rep. Wayne Ford, D-Des Moines, introduced the Drake men's basketball team with an enthusiastic speech yesterday in the House Chambers at the State Capitol.

Drake has a search under way to hire a new men's basketball coach to succeed Keno Davis who has accepted a job as head coach at Providence College.

Drake graduate Tanner Stransky will return to Des Moines to introduce his new book, "Find Your Inner Ugly Betty – 25 Career Lessons from TV Shows for Young Professionals."

The Drake University community and friends will gather to celebrate the research of 100 students and faculty members at the annual DUCURS conference.

Bill Lewis, professor of rhetoric at Drake University, will give a talk titled "The Media Make Trials Into Circuses…And a Good Thing, Too: The Rhetoric of Popular Trials,"

Judith Allen, associate professor of psychology, will discuss "Bodymind Work and the Mysticism of Everyday Life" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, in the Medbury Honors Lounge.

Approximately 1,900 people attended last week's Bucksbaum Lecture to hear futurist Erik Peterson discuss the coming "Seven Revolutions."

The Drake Environmental Action League and other student and community groups are promoting environmental awareness this week.