Category: Official News Releases

Travis Thompson, vice president of operations for the Edge Business Continuity Center in Altoona, will discuss business continuity and disaster recovery at Drake University's Let's DU Lunch speaker series at noon Wednesday.

The McCormick Tribune Foundation has awarded Drake's School of Journalism and Mass Communication $50,000 for a Specialized Reporting Institute.

Drake's RaySociety, an educational organization for people of retirement-age, presents a new four-day course that examines society's insatiable appetite for sports.

Robert J. Johnson, a first-year student from Chicago, has been asked to speak on a panel at a forum titled "Promote Permanent Families: Reform Foster Care Now," which will be held Monday, March 12, in Washington, D.C.

The Drake University Science Colloquium Series offers two presentations this week by respected scientists -- Paul Kögerler, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, and Aliasger K. Salem, assistant professor in the pharmaceutics division of the College of Pharmacy and Engineering at University of Iowa.

People with diabetes or those at risk for developing diabetes are invited to attend "Diabetes Day" from 8 a.m. to noon Friday, March 9, at the Polk County Health Department clinic at 1907 Carpenter Ave.

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) has announced that Drake University graduate Jennifer Fix is the recipient of the 2006 APhA Good Government Pharmacist-of-the-Year Award.

The Collegiate Entrepreneur's Iowa Conference has been canceled for Friday. The showing of "Hollywood Dreams" has also been canceled.

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will deliver the keynote address at the Drake University Law School's annual Supreme Court Celebration, which will start at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 10.

Brian Leung, an award-winning fiction writer, will share his work and discuss his writing at 8 p.m. today. Leung's presentation, which is free and open to public, is part of the Spring Drake Writers and Critics Series.