Drake University’s Adult Literacy Center will celebrate 40 years of service to the community this week with a celebration, during which they will announce a brand new literacy program.
Category: Official News Releases
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Interfaith event to precede Bucksbaum Lecture by On Being host Krista Tippett
A high-profile lecture by one of the world’s leading journalists on the topic of faith and religion will be preceded by an interfaith event designed to introduce visitors to the diversity of religious and faith communities in central Iowa.
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SJMC students receive 3 Pacemakers, numerous in-state PRSA awards
Awards season just got more exciting for students in Drake’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Two of Drake’s student publications earned top national honors, while students and faculty in the public relations program earned regional in-state awards.
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The Comparison Project to host interfaith dialogue on death and dying
The Comparison Project will present the third event in its 2016–2017 series on death and dying. A community interfaith dialogue on Oct. 27 will feature representatives of three different refugee religions in Des Moines.
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Drake to host free lecture on immigrants and savings groups
The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship will host a free lecture this month titled “Getting Ahead with Almost Nothing: What Immigrant Communities Can Teach Us About Achieving the American Dream.”
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James Cloyd and Natalie Schmitz to lecture at Drake University Science Colloquium Series
Drake University will host free lectures this week by a University of Minnesota professor whose team recently had an anti-seizure drug approved by the FDA and by one of his graduate students, a Drake pharmacy alumna.
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The Ray Center receives $20K grant from Variety – the Children’s Charity
The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University has received a $20,000 grant from Variety – the Children’s Charity to fund CHARACTER COUNTS! programming for early childhood centers.
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Sarah Ramsey hired as director of Drake University Executive Education Center
The Executive Education Center at Drake University hired its first full-time director, Sarah Ramsey.
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Keys to Excellence Piano Series launches fourth season on Oct. 24
Drake University’s Keys to Excellence Piano Series will open its fourth season with a performance by Lori Sims, professor of piano at Western Michigan University.
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Boldon named the Franklin ‘Pitch’ Johnson Director of the Drake Relays
Drake University director of athletics Sandy Hatfield Clubb has announced the hiring of Blake Boldon as the 12th Franklin ‘Pitch’ Johnson Director of the Drake Relays presented by Hy-Vee.