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For Students Archive

DELTA Rx’s Next Top Entrepreneur Competition

  • Do you have an idea for an innovative healthcare solution?
  • Are you looking to grow as an entrepreneurial leader?
  • Share your idea and win CASH prizes!
  • New this year: top performers will be considered for a spot in the Lorentzen Student Hatchery!
  • Click here to learn more!

ABOUT: 
DELTA Rx’s Next Top Entrepreneur Competition is taking place in February 2017, and you don’t want to miss out on this unique opportunity! The competition is open to all students, regardless of major, with a health care innovation. During three rounds of competition, you will develop creativity and presentation skills through business plan presentations, problem solving, and receiving feedback from innovators. The competition judges will represent the pharmacy, health care, and business sectors. Participants can register as an individual or in a team. This is a great opportunity to build your résumé; gain leadership skills; and network in a welcoming, constructive environment! Top prizes include $1,200 (1st place), $800 (2nd place), and $400 (3rd place), plus consideration for the Lorentzen Student Hatchery summer program which provides $10,000 and professional assistance to help students with a start-up business during summer 2017!

LEARN MORE: 
Information sessions to provide competition guidelines and recommendations will be held 4–4:30 p.m. in Harvey Ingham, Room 112, on Jan. 30 and 31.

SIGN UP:
To register yourself or your team, email deltarx@drake.edu.

—Sarah Dean

For Students Archive

Attention first-year students: Passionate about social justice?

Are you a first-year who is passionate about social justice? If so, the Social Justice Living Learning Community (SJLLC) is now recruiting for the 2017–2018 academic year! The SJLLC offers the opportunity to live with others who are passionate about social justice, participate in fun community activities, have guaranteed housing in Goodwin-Kirk, and take an awesome one-credit class focusing on social justice activism!

For more information and the application, you can follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/DrakeSJLLC2017

—Jackie Heymann

For Students Archive

Become an MVP

Do you have ideas on how Drake students can create change and prevent violence? Do you enjoy presenting? Are you a leader? Join the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) team!

MVP facilitators receive 15 hours of training, serve on our full MVP team and present the curriculum on campus. Applications are available online and are due by Dec. 21. Priority in scheduling interviews is given to applications turned in prior to the end of the semester.

—Tess Cody, Office of Dean of Students

News & Achievements Archive

Faculty accomplishments: Week of Dec. 5

Teresa Koch, professor of librarianship and collection development coordinator, and Andrew Welch, associate professor of librarianship and librarian for discovery services and technology, recently published “Monograph Validation Strategies in Shared Print Programs: Variations and Value,” in Collaborative Librarianship.

Natalie Adkins, associate professor of marketing, was also recently published. She co-authored “The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma,” which appeared in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

Featured Events Archive

The Comparison Project event

Please join us for the fifth event of our 2016–2017 series on death and dying—a dialogue panel between representatives of three different immigrant communities—African Islam, Serbian Christian, and Lao Buddhism—about their religious perspectives on death and dying. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in Dunn’s Chapel at Iles Funeral Home, 2121 Grand Ave in Des Moines.

—Tim Knepper, The Comparison Project

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Preparing for J-Term 2018

It is time to consider offering a J-Term 2018 on-campus class. Schools and colleges will be assembling the J-Term 2018 schedule early in the spring semester. You should use whatever process your school/college uses to schedule classes.

If it is a new class that needs AOI approval, once it has been approved by the appropriate department/school/college, you should submit the appropriate AOI request form to the University Curriculum Committee.

The only difference in this process for J-Term than any other semester is that once the class is scheduled, we ask that you provide that information to Associate Provost Arthur Sanders.