Category: Official News Releases

Two Drake University Law School students are forming a nonprofit organization to help spur economic development at the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Reservation in Buffalo County, S.D. -- the poorest county in the United States.

Drake will host a forum in which top leaders from Iowa's House and Senate will discuss the 2008 session and election year.

Drake 's student-run Relays telecast will be broadcast live on TV and on the Drake Athletics Web site during the 99th running of the Drake Relays.

The Drake University Writers and Critics Series will present an evening with the 2008 Des Moines National Poetry Festival Poet Li-Young Lee at 8 p.m.

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.

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."

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.

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