Category: Official News Releases

More than 30 faculty members from around the country are convening at Drake this weekend for this spring's "Reacting to the Past" regional conference, held on behalf of a consortium of 35 colleges and universities.

Nationally renowned journalist, author and Drake University graduate Neenah Ellis will be the featured speaker at the Live! @ the Drake Library Series today.

Bob Costas, an accomplished broadcaster and author, will deliver this spring's Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19.

Alumni and friends nationwide will be donning Drake blue this Sunday, gathering with fellow Bulldog fans to watch Drake face Tennessee.

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.