The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University, home of CHARACTER COUNTS!, is proud to declare October 20–26, 2019 as National CHARACTER COUNTS! Week. This annual recognition, dating to 1993, was initially created and continues to be bolstered by the United States Senate’s passage of a joint resolution declaring the third full week...
Drake University proudly presents world-renowned pianist Sergei Babayan as the 2019 Edwin Earle Ferguson event artist. The solo concert will take place Friday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free. The concert program features the following works, all by Frederic Chopin: Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1Valse in C-sharp...
Drake University made its debut in the “National Universities” category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Colleges survey, ranking among the top third of the nation’s most prestigious universities. U.S. News places Drake at #130 among 402 of the nation’s elite private and public doctoral institutions, a list that includes Princeton, Harvard, Columbia,...
Drake University Theatre Department’s upcoming production of Electra is taking an old story and putting a contemporary and political spin on it. Electra, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Arts John Graham, runs Thursday, Oct. 3, through Sunday, Oct. 6, in the William S.E. Coleman Studio Theatre of the Harmon Fine Arts Center. Performances will...
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of Interior announced that the next Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Art Contest will be held at Drake University on Sept. 25–26, 2020. Jay N. “Ding” Darling’s drawing on a piece of cardboard in 1934 led to the creation of the Federal Duck...
Dr. Brian Gentry and Dr. Marc Busch were awarded a multi-year $390,000 Merck Investigator Studies Program (MISP) grant to study letermovir, an antiviral drug used to treat infections that occur in patients with compromised immune systems. The Drake researchers will be studying the disruption that letermovir causes on the virus that causes life-threatening infections....
Soon campus will be bustling with the presence of our extended Bulldog family for the annual Drake Parents & Family Weekend on October 4–6. If you are looking for ways to make the most of your weekend in Des Moines, we’ve got it covered! A variety of family friendly activities planned on campus that weekend,...
Robert Weirich, who held the Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Chair in Piano at the UMKC Conservatory, will present the first concert of the 2019–2020 season for the Drake University Keys to ExcellencePiano Series on Monday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public. The performance will feature...
EVENT UPDATE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED TO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 AT 7 P.M. DUE TO A SCHEDULING CONFLICT. US women’s national soccer team (USWNT) co-captain Megan Rapinoe will be interviewed in a moderated question and answer session for the 41st installment of the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series at Drake University. The event will...