Category: Official News Releases

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.