Drake University School of Education students will be able to participate in the new Iowa Financial Literacy Academy this spring semester provided by the Iowa Financial Literacy Academy. The Academy, based on the legacy of Maddie Levitt’s financial mentorship, provides SOE students with a chance to increase personal financial knowledge while building financial teaching skills....
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Adult Literacy Center Receives Grant
The Drake University Adult Literacy Center (ALC@DU) received a grant for $5000 from the Gannett Foundation/The Des Moines Register. This grant will assist ALC@DU sustain and expand the reach of their services, provide a variety of learning options to adults in the greater Des Moines area, and support volunteers with excellent training and professional development. Many...
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Dean’s List and President’s List
Congratulations to all of the students that made the Dean’s List and President’s List in the fall, 2013. Dean’s List Kaitlyn Aberson Cassandra Aerts Abbygayle Anderson Matthew Andrews Erin Andrus Joan Barry Emily Bowman Kristen Bramhall Kayla Brauer Leah Bromaghim Jessica Bruin Ellen Calder Ashley Clark-Davidson Emelia Clement Lara Cox Krystal Cudworth Patricia DeWeerdt Kelly...
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MSE Graduate Receives Presidential Award for Excellence
Drake University School of Education graduate, Josie Burg, MSE ’07, represented Iowa as one of this year’s winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. For the complete article, visit the news release from Des Moines Public Schools.
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Doctoral Program Graduate Wins Research Award
Dr. Cathy Beck-Cross, alumnus of the School of Education Doctoral program (Ed.D.), recently won the Iowa Education Research and Evaluation Association’s (IEREA) Distinguished Research Award for her dissertation work titled “Individual, Family, School, and Community Predictors of High School Male Suicidal Behaviors: An analysis of 2010 Iowa Youth Survey Data.” Dr. Beck-Cross will present her...
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Free documentary screening and discussion will explore race and education
Community and education leaders participating in the 6:30 p.m. panel discussion include Drake University Provost Deneese Jones.
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Prospective Drake Student, Michael Woods Achieves GED
When Mike Woods enrolled in the Adult Literacy Center at Drake University in March 2009, his goal was to get his GED. Since he was reading at the 3rd grade level, he first dedicated himself to improving his reading skills. He spent four years (approximately 500 hours) learning word concepts, sentence structure, vocabulary, and comprehension...
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Professor and Students Presents at Counseling Conference
Dr. Bengu Tekinalp along with two Counseling Graduate students, Kathryn Blair and Cody Samec, presented at the Iowa School Counselor Association Annual conference in Des Moines. The title of the program was School Counselor’s Toolbox: Insights and Techniques from Individual Psychology. The program was well attended, and well received. Congratulations to Cody and Katie for...
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X-ray lasers are no longer science fiction
On Nov. 14, Linda Young, director of the X-ray Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, will deliver a lecture about the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) laser, which helps scientists determine three-dimensional structure of materials at the atomic scale. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in...
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Linda Young Public Lecture Scheduled About X-ray Lasers
Join us Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium to here Dr. Linda Young’s lecture on “X-ray Lasers – No Longer Science Fiction.” Linda Young is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow leader in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics, is director of the X-ray Science Division at Argonne. The first optical laser was...