Category: Official News Releases

Renowned peace negotiator Dennis Ross will give a lecture on "Statecraft: How to Restore America's Standing in the World."

Mark Phelps, who has served as associate head coach at Arizona State the past two seasons, has been named the 25th men's head basketball coach at Drake.

In celebration of the 100th running of the Drake Relays next year, the Bulldog Parade is looking for proud Drake fans to sponsor bulldogs.

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.

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.