Congratulations to our CBPA BUS-120 (Communication Leadership for Virtual Teams) student teams who participated in the University of Southern California-Marshall School of Business, Virtual Business Professional Project.

CBPA student Zack Gray and his team were selected as 3^rd place winners by our Google sponsor. Additionally, CBPA student Zach Drummond and his team were also selected to be one of the top three teams reviewed by our SpaceX sponsor. Additional CBPA students participating in this project were Sophia Dehl, Chaz Hancock, Hunter James, Mike Lopez, and Jacob Richard.

VBP project coordinators placed each of our CBPA students on a virtual, globally-distributed team comprised of 4–5 other students selected from 28 countries. In all, 85 teams participated in the VBP project’s consulting challenge—to analyze the social media branding of one of three corporate sponsors—Google, Netflix, and SpaceX. In recognition of their hard work, students who completed the project received a digital badge that may be shared on their favorite social media feeds.

— Lynn McCool, College of Business & Public Administration

The Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA) was started over 40 years ago to provide financial support to promote and advance the field of behavior analysis. The three primary manners by which SABA achieves this are (a) supporting students, (b) globally promoting the science, and (c) providing a platform of recognition for our most impactful and inspiring leaders.

2022 SABA Awards
Each year, SABA recognizes five distinguished individuals or institutions of our field by honoring them and their impact with awards. The opening ceremony of the 2022 Association for Behavior Analysis International convention in Boston will recognize and celebrate these outstanding individuals and institutions and their accomplishments:

Deisy de Souza for Distinguished Service
Steve Higgins for Scientific Translation
Vincent Carbone for International Dissemination
Martha Hübner for Effective Presentation in Mass Media
Drake University for Enduring Programmatic Contributions

We congratulate each of these awardees for their sustained energy and efforts in promoting the field of behavior analysis. Read SABA’s full announcement.

— Maria Valdovinos, Professor of Psychology

Drake Law School is pleased to announce that Mark Kende, Director of the congressionally endowed Constitutional Law Center, James Madison Chair in Constitutional Law, and Professor of Law, has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Membership is limited to just one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board.

The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. ABF Fellows hail from nearly 40 countries and hold a wide variety of influential roles.

Mark Kende has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools sections on African Law, Comparative Law, and Constitutional Law. He is also a former Fulbright Senior Scholar, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Kende’s areas of expertise focus on Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Civil Rights, and Cyberlaw. He has authored: Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds, South Africa and the United States (Cambridge University 2009) and Comparative Constitutional Law: South African Cases and Materials in a Global Context (Carolina Academic Press, 2015).

Notable Fellows include former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, former United States Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

— Terri Howard, Law School

Lee Jolliffe, Drake University professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, is editor and co-author of Adventure Journalists in the Gilded Age: Essays on Reporting From the Arctic to the Orient, published by McFarland,  in July 2021, with colleagues Katrina Quinn and Mary Cronin. The book features:

• 12 meticulously researched chapters
• 57 archival images, including some of history’s greatest adventure journalists and their Gilded Age destinations. Images also include woodcut engravings from the nineteenth century illustrated press.
• a foreword by Michael S. Sweeney, a distinguished journalism historian and past editor of Journalism History, the oldest mass media history journal in the US
• a preface by editor Katrina J. Quinn, a Hazel Dicken-Garcia distinguished scholar in journalism history

The Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will award its highest honor, the Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor to Drake pharmacy alumnus and retired otolaryngology head and neck surgery physician, Steven Herwig, PH’71, GR’99. Dr. Herwig will deliver the Weaver Medal Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m. in Sussman Theater. The lecture will also be livestreamed at drake.edu/cphs/weaver-lecture and recorded for later viewing.

The Weaver Medal of Honor recognizes an individual’s dedication to making a substantial impact on the profession of pharmacy and the advancement of human health.

“Dr. Steve Herwig has had a significant impact on Drake, our College, and the central Iowa community,” said Renae Chesnut, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. “He has served as a leader and role model, in addition to establishing funds that further the College’s mission. He embodies the College’s values of collaboration, innovation, and professionalism.”

Learn more about Dr. Herwig and his contributions to the College.

— Kaylyn Maher, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Catherine Gillespie, professor and associate dean of the School of Education, published an open-access textbook entitled Introduction to Eating Disorders through OER Commons. This textbook is now available for free download to anyone who is interested.