Category: Official News Releases

Drake University will host artist Jeremy Drummond’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” exhibition, which reveals individuality, humor and irony among the conformity of suburbia. Combining painted works, sound, video and photography, Drummond renders conven

Susan Schmidt Bies, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will speak at the 20th annual Drake - FEI lecture at 7:15 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2, at Drake University.

The Drake Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Clarence Padilla, will present its first concert of the fall season at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 2507 University Ave.

When members of the Diversity Committee at Drake’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication sat down to choose a diversity lecturer, someone asked an intriguing question: “Why not have a white person talk with our predominantly white audience in Des Mo

Drake University’s Writers and Critics Series continues on Monday, Oct. 30, with a double poetry reading by two National Poetry Series Award-winning writers, Juliana Spahr and Lee Ann Brown. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will begin at

Three students from Drake University won Fulbright awards in 2006-07 – putting Drake in third place among "top producing" master's institutions in the nation.

True to its purpose to create a culture that encourages innovation and provides the tools necessary to build Iowa’s business community, the Drake University John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center will host Entrepreneurship Day. The conference organized for

In an effort to shine the spotlight on the issue of recruiting and retaining a qualified and talented workplace in the Des Moines area, Drake University President David Maxwell will join forces with a string of local CEOs in a "Take It From the Top

The complexion of once predominantly white Perry, Iowa, was changed dramatically in the early 1990s by an influx of Latino workers and their families from as far away as Texas, California, Mexico and Central America. How did the community respond? And how

Children ages 3 through 12 are invited to the 13th annual Drake University Community Halloween Hoos Shoot Out, set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at the Bell Center, 1421 27th St.