The Drake University National Alumni Association Board has selected seven accomplished alumni as recipients of the annual National Alumni Awards. The winning group features graduates who’ve gone on to excel as an Emmy award-winning actor, a Secret Service agent and more.

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The gift will support The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship and the objectives of the University’s Internationalization Strategic Plan. This plan calls for Drake to recruit more international students, faculty and staff, expand faculty exchanges, internationalize the curriculum and increase access to study-abroad programs.

Alumni and friends gathered at the Temple for Performing Arts to celebrate the advancement of Drake.

The Drake University School of Education will recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of exceptional alumni at the Believers and Achievers Banquet on Tuesday, March 1.

Drake invites alumni and friends to network and learn throughout the spring 2011 "Let’s DU Lunch" speaker series.

Drake students evacuated while studying abroad in Egypt receive national attention after returning to the U.S., blogging about their experiences.

Alumni Herb Baum, Donald L. Decker, Cain A. Hayes and Cyndi Lesher have recently joined the Board of Trustees.

The January fundraiser helped pay for the team's May trip to the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl, which is slated to be the first American-style collegiate football game on African soil.

Students will devote a day to focus on professional development at the 24th annual Pharmacy and Health Sciences Day on Friday, March 4.

Drake Associate Professor of English Carol Spaulding-Kruse celebrated the release of the book she co-authored during a naturalization ceremony for nearly 100 children.

The breakfast, sponsored by American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, brought together 53 female business students, 11 faculty and staff in Drake's College of Business and Public Administration, Drake’s First Lady Madeline Maxwell and 22 businesswomen and community leaders. Kristi Knous, GR’10, gave the keynote.

MPA graduate Randall Thysse now heads the FBI's New York Counterintelligence Division, which investigates traditional spy cases along with counterproliferation cases.

A high-stakes film tax credit trial will take place at Drake University as the First-Year Trial Practicum, where law students view an actual state or federal trial as if in an educational laboratory.

Drake public relations seniors will prepare a strategic PR campaign for Anawim Housing, a non-profit specializing in low-income housing management and development, for their capstone project.

Drake University presented alumni Lisa Behlmann Cannon and Zach Johnson with the highest honor Drake bestows on its former student-athletes -- the Double D Award -- on Jan. 25.

The former Drake football player and Iowa native ended a successful season with All-pro recognition.