Monthly Archives: October 2011

Drury’s O’Reilly Family Event Center earns Building of the Year award

The construction of Drury’s O’Reilly Family Event Center earned Williams Construction, Inc. the 2011 Building of the Year award from American Buildings Co. The company also received an Excellence in Design award in the Recreation category for the same project. Continue reading

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Halloween is every day at Drury’s Clara Thompson Hall

When Drury music students are practicing alone in Clara Thompson Hall, they’re often joined by a music lover who listens quietly, but no one has ever seen this spectator or can actually say that he/she exists. The music fan is known as the ghost of Clara Thompson Hall. Continue reading

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Drury dedicates the Kellogg Green Space and Terrace

The Drury community today celebrated the dedication of the Kellogg Green Space and Terrace with a ribbon cutting honoring donors Tom and Camille Kellogg. Continue reading

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Drury’s Extreme Makeover efforts earn media attention

For the past week, Drury University students, faculty and staff have helped ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition (EMHE) help transform tornado ravaged Joplin. Drury Architecture Professor Traci Sooter headed up a team of students to design and create a landscape feature that is a tribute to the more than 100,000 volunteers who helped Joplin rebuild after the May 22 tornado. Continue reading

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Professor’s research comes from the aqueducts of Rome to the faucets at Drury

Katherine Rinne, a professor at the California College of the Arts, will speak on Oct. 28 in the Hammons School of Architecture multi-purpose room at 1 p.m. Her speech, Pluming Rome, is a part of Drury University’s Architecture Lecture Series 2011-12. This lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading

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Two Edward Jones Center learning opportunities in November

The public will have two opportunities to learn through the Edward Jones Center for Entrepreneurship (EJC) in November. Continue reading

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Professor’s research comes from the aqueducts of Rome to the faucets at Drury

Katherine Rinne, a professor at the California College of the Arts, will speak on Oct. 28 in the Hammons School of Architecture multi-purpose room at 1 p.m. Her speech, Pluming Rome, is a part of Drury University’s Architecture Lecture Series 2011-12. This lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading

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A “Nest” migration from C-Street to downtown highlights a Drury art project

Drury students and faculty will collaborate with members of the Springfield community to construct an installation that will be paraded from Commercial Street to Park Central Square during First Friday Art Walk on Nov. 4. Continue reading

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Drury named a Best Value Private University by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance named Drury University one of the best values in private colleges and universities for 2011-12. Drury is one of only four private universities from Missouri to make the university rankings. Drury is ranked 66th out of 100 private universities from around the country. You can view Drury’s profile here. Continue reading

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Drury Professor Studies Junk….in Outer Space

Have you ever wondered what sorts of things are orbiting the earth? It’s easy to imagine satellites and space stations, but there are also small pieces of space junk that could do serious damage to the billions of dollars of equipment in orbit, or which could take the lives of astronauts and cosmonauts. Figuring out what those small pieces of junk are and where they’re headed is a part-time job for Drury physics professor and NASA consultant Dr. Greg Ojakangas. Continue reading

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