Category: Official News Releases

With caucuses fast approaching and presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa, six Drake students got a first-hand experience to talk about the 2008 caucuses when they were interviewed by CNN on Oct. 5.

Surrounded by a group of college students, alumnus Larry D. Zimpleman, president and COO of The Principal Financial Group, was more focused on the future of business for students than the lecture he was scheduled to present that night.

Environment and energy expert Peter Soverel will deliver a free, public lecture on "Energy and Climate Change," at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13, in room 101 in Olin Hall, 27th Street and Forest Ave.

Drake University student magazines 515 and THiNK won the Associated Collegiate Press' 2007 Pacemaker award for magazine excellence on Oct. 27, at the 2007 National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C.

National Adoption Month will culminate by uniting dozens of children with new families at the seventh annual Adoption Saturday, to be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Polk County Courthouse, 500 Mulberry St.

Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton and two-time Olympic silver medalist and world record holder Mike Powell headlined the third annual CHARACTER COUNTS! In Iowa's Pursuing Victory With Honor Summit on Oct. 30.

Prize-winning author and poet Gary Gildner will return to Drake University after 16 years as part of the Drake Writers and Critics series on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

The fall season of the Humanities Center Colloquium series will continue with a presentation by Megan Brown, assistant professor of English, on "Somehow We All Survived: The Ideology of the U.S. Backlash Against Risk Management," from 3:30-5 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 9.

Renowned jazz saxophonist Adam Niewood and his Rabble Rousers jazz quartet from New York City will perform a public concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Performing Arts Hall of the Harmon Fine Arts Center at Drake University, 25th Street and Carpenter Avenue.

International human rights expert Rhonda Howard-Hassmann will deliver a free, public lecture on "Reparations to Africa for the Slave Trade," at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium.