Kimberly Wayne, a current Drake doctoral student, received the Diversity Champion Award at the Iowa Women of Innovation Awards on Nov. 10. Kimberly is the executive director and chair of Jewels Academy, a nonprofit that facilitates and STEM workshops for underrepresented girls in 4th–12th grade so they can gain a positive opinion about science, technology, engineering, and math.
—Submitted by Jan McMahill, Dean, School of Education
Drake PR students win national honor
Drake Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) was named a Star Chapter at the recent PRSA national conference in Atlanta.
The world comes to Meredith Hall
Students in SJMC Professor Grace Provenzano’s Advanced Video Production class recently met with a group of Russian print, broadcast, and online journalists who were visiting Des Moines as part of the Friendship Force. The Russians met the next day with SJMC Dean Kathleen Richardson, retired SJMC media law professor Herb Strentz, and retired Des Moines Register editorial page editor Randy Evans to discuss open government and First Amendment issues. The Russian visitors were impressed by the SJMC students’ engagement and questions, which they said were better than questions they had been asked by professional journalists on their trip!
—Submitted by Kathleen Richardson, Dean, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
—Submitted by Kathleen Richardson, Dean, School of Journalism and Mass Communication