Category: Official News Releases

Drake was outscored 36-27 over the final 20 minutes as Illinois State won a 70-62 victory in the championship game of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

The Drake men's basketball team will play Western Kentucky Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Tampa, Fla.

Drake overcame a deficit to win a 46-41 semifinal round victory over Evansville, advancing to the championship of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament.

Steve Brodner, political cartoonist and artist, will present Drake University's annual Hawley Foundation Lecture, titled "The Satiric Eye: How Pictures that Make People Crazy are Really Good for Them."

Drake University Head Start will open a new toddler classroom this fall in the former Montessori School wing of Covenant Presbyterian Church in West Des Moines.

Erik Peterson, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will present this spring's Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture.

Join the Selection Sunday celebration as the Drake men's basketball team discovers what regional it will be playing in when the NCAA Tournament brackets are unveiled.

Assistant Professor of Music Ashley Sidon will perform a cello recital at 8 p.m., featuring music by Edvard Grieg, David Popper and Alberto Ginastera.

Drake Law School's Constitutional Law Center will hold its 2008 symposium, which will explore the Ninth and 14th Amendments.

Alan Nadel, the endowed chair of American literature and film at the University of Kentucky, will share his analysis of Mel Gibson's films as part of the Drake's Writers and Critics Series.