Category: Official News Releases

Lauren Smith, who just completed her term as Drake student body president for 2006-07, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to fund a 13-month English teaching assistantship in South Korea.

Applications are due for a free political reporting seminar to be presented June 4-6.

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha K. Ternus will return to her alma mater to give the commencement address at Drake Law School’s 126th commencement ceremony at 7 p.m. Friday, May 11.

Approximately 650 seniors will be honored at Drake’s 126th Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday. Drake will present James Autry, renowned author and retired Meredith Corp. executive, with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Drake’s 126th Commencement Ceremony for Graduate and Doctoral Degree Recipients will recognize approximately 560 graduate students.

The $37 million mixed-use housing and retail complex that Drake University and Hubbell Realty Company are developing at 30th Street and Carpenter Avenue will be called Drake West Village.

World-renowned opera singer Simon Estes will share life experiences and insights at the 13th annual Ray Pugh Institute of New Hope on Sunday, May 20.

"A Taste of Drake," the official magazine of the Drake University Honors Student Council, launched recently. Find the magazine online at www.drake.edu/honors.

Peter Yu has been named the inaugural Kern Family chair in intellectual property law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School.

The Drake University Department of Music will hold auditions for middle and high school cellists on May 23 to select recipients of scholarship awards for free cello instruction at Drake during the 2007-08 academic year.