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News & Achievements Archive

SJMC News: April 10

Anna Steenson, a sophomore digital media production major, won two first-place Emmys in this spring’s Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Upper Midwest Region contest. Steenson won awards in the public affairs/community service and editing categories.

Senior public relations major Kelly Leatherman has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. Leatherman will be traveling to Malaysia for her scholarship.

Teams of senior PR students recently presented campaigns to their capstone client, Young Women’s Resource Center. The advertising seniors will present their campaigns for the National Pork Board later this month. The pork industry group is also flying a team of students to Arizona to present their plans to the organization’s national board.

—Kathleen Richardson, Dean, SJMC

News & Achievements Archive

Faculty accomplishment: April 10

Michael Haedicke, associate professor of sociology, has received an honorable mention in the Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award competition for his 2016 book Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market. The Distinguished Book Award recognizes new works of scholarship that make exemplary, original, and substantive contributions to sociological understanding.

Organizing Organic traces the history of different visions of sustainable agriculture within the U.S. organic farming sector and investigates how members of the organic industry navigate these cultural understandings in everyday life.

Featured Events Archive

All-campus service project

On Tuesday, April 18, Drake is partnering with Wells Fargo employees for a service day at Youth Emergency Shelter and Services to help them get ready for their annual Duck Derby fundraising event. There are two shifts available: 12–2 p.m. and 2–4 p.m. Pizza and transportation will be provided! Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome and can register online.

—Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning Coordinator

Featured Events Archive

Spring 2017 Sussman Lecture

In June 2016, a small majority of referendum voters tipped the scale toward “leave,” inciting the U.K. to begin steps to remove itself from the European Union. This week Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, the official two-year process required by the Treaty of Lisbon for any country wishing to leave the EU, making people all over the world wonder what’s to come. When exactly will the U.K. leave the EU, and under what terms? How will Brexit affect trade between the U.K. and remaining EU countries, and how will it affect Britain’s relationship with America? The Harkin Institute welcomes British Consul General Stephen Bridges on April 18 at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater to answer these questions and prepare us for what’s to come, as Brexit will certainly lead to changes in the way the U.S. and the U.K. interact.

Register today at: www.eventbrite.com/e/our-future-with-britain-tickets-33249109983

—Erin Austin, The Harkin Institute