Category: Official News Releases

The Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor -- the highest award presented by Drake University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences -- will be awarded to Richard Morrow, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of pharmacology.

Ernesto Cortés Jr., an expert on grassroots organizing and former MacArthur fellow, will visit Drake University to deliver a keynote lecture as part of Drake's Engaged Citizen Experience

Bruce G. Kelley, president and CEO of EMC Insurance Cos., received the Community Leadership Award Wednesday from Drake University's College of Business and Public Administration.

The Drake Trombone Choir will give its inaugural concert at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Hall of the Harmon Fine Arts Center.

Drake offers myriad ways to join in the festivities of America's Athletic Classic.

Reel Big Fish will perform at the 10,000 Hours Show Concert at the Iowa State Memorial Union.

Janice Buss will present a lecture at noon on why continued research and discovery is so important for the development of new drugs to fight cancer.

Herb Strentz, professor emeritus and former dean of Drake University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will give a speech about the Cowles Family.

Drake will present a program of music by Mozart at 3 p.m. at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines.

Melanie Harris, an esteemed scholar in African American religious thought and ethics, will give the Stringfellow Lecture.