Category: Official News Releases

Drake University and IowaPolitics.com announced this week a luncheon series offering bipartisan perspectives and analysis.

The Euclid Quartet and Nicholas Roth, Drake assistant professor of piano, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday.

Drake's Women's Awareness Coalition will present benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The Drake University Law School National Moot Court team finished among the top 8 teams out of the 28 teams that competed in the final rounds of the National Moot Court Competition in New York City last week.

Drake President David Maxwell was honored last week with the Donald V. Adams Spirit of Drake Award.

The revised and expanded film, "A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character of Perry, Iowa," a documentary chronicling the rapid ethnic diversification of the community, will premiere at Drake on Tuesday.

"I have seen the future, and it is slang," remarks one of the three Victorian ladies in "On the Verge." This is only one hint of the not-so-long but strange trip in store for the audience when Drake Theatre performs Eric Overmyer's 1986 play running Thursday through Sunday.

Law school students and faculty at Drake University are trying to improve Children's Rights in Iowa by trying out a novel idea -- asking foster children themselves what laws need to be changed to better protect them, and then enlisting those foster children to lobby lawmakers to pass that legislation.

Robert Shumaker, lead scientist and director of orangutan research at Great Ape Trust of Iowa and Drake fellow, will open Drake’s spring Let’s DU Lunch speaker series Wednesday.

Drake vocal students will deliver a song and flowers to your beloved's workplace or home on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The deadline for ordering is Friday.