Category: Official News Releases

Drake will participate in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's national cancer awareness "Think Pink" week when the women's basketball team takes on Southern Illinois at 6:05 p.m. in the Drake Knapp Center.

Leonard Houston's three-point basket that could have sent the game into overtime bounced off the rim at the buzzer as Drake fell to defending Missouri Valley Conference champion Southern Illinois, 65-62, Wednesday.

The Drake University Choir will perform at 8 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.

Drake University's Undergraduate Mock Trial Team will host a public trial as part of Drake's new Engaged Citizen Experience program.

Drake University Trustee Don Davidson is making a $300,000 gift to renovate the Donald F. Davidson Pharmacy Practice Laboratory in Fitch Hall.

Drake will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the V-Day campaign with performances of "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer" and Eve Ensler's award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues."

Drake University will perform Eve Ensler's award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" at 7 p.m. in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center.

The Drake University Brass Quintet will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m.in Sebring-Lewis Hall in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts on the Grinnell College campus.

Nonfiction writer Tim Bascom will continue the spring 2008 Drake University Writers and Critics Series Tuesday, Feb. 26.

Richard Thomas, star of "Twelve Angry Men," now playing at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, will visit Drake University Friday, Feb. 15, for an "Inside the Actors Studio"-style discussion.