Category: Official News Releases

David S. Senchina, assistant professor of biology, will begin the fall season of the Drake University Science Colloquium Series.

For Drake University pharmacy students, the transition from college to the professional world will be smoother, thanks to the new state-of-the-art Mayhew Compounding Laboratory, made possible by a $500,000 gift from alumnus Larry Mayhew and his wife, Sandy.

Drake University launches the fall fine arts season this week with an exhibition of World War I propaganda posters, a special performance featuring music and theater faculty members and a recital by a renowned pianist.

Internationally renowned pianist Jack Winerock, professor of piano at the University of Kansas, will perform works by Schubert, Ravel and Griffes in a solo recital at Drake University on Saturday, Sept. 8.

Fifty years of satellites will be explored during the fall series of Friday evening public presentations at the Drake Municipal Observatory in Waveland Park on the west side of Des Moines. The free series will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7.

Drake University launches its fall fine arts season this week with an exhibition of World War I propaganda posters, a special performance featuring music and theatre faculty members and a recital by a renowned pianist.

Drake University alumnus Lawrence Fish, chairman of the America unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland, will lead off this fall's Executive in Residence series in Drake's School of Management and Communication by giving a public lecture Tuesday, Sept. 11.

The fall series of Drake University’s “Let’s DU Lunch” will kick off with a speech by Keno Davis, Drake’s new men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

There's still time to enroll children and adults for music lessons during the fall semester at the Drake University Community School of Music.

Drake University's Center for Global Citizenship is launching a public lecture series titled "Debating America's Role in the World" in which experts on foreign affairs will discuss topics including terrorism, the Iraq war and the Middle East, hunger, pandemics, energy and climate change.