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Drury’s Joplin Impact Project earns a research award for two students

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Mark Miller

Drury students Blake Herd and Paige Nichols won top honors in the Social/Behavioral Sciences division at the Missouri Academy of Science on April 14 at the University of Missouri. Continue reading →

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Drury Senior Allyson Strickland wins national debate tournament

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Mark Miller

Allyson Strickland, a 2008 graduate of Glendale High School, has been named the National Forensic Association (NFA) National Champion in Lincoln-Douglas Debate. The national tournament was held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, April 18-22. Continue reading →

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Drury’s Amanda Combs earns prestigious advertising internship

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Mark Miller

Drury junior advertising and public relations major Amanda Combs has been awarded a Vance and Betty Lee Stickell Internship from the American Advertising Federation (AAF). This summer, she will intern at IBM in Armonk, N.Y. Continue reading →

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Drury students perform 7th annual “Vagina Monologues”

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Mark Miller

For the seventh consecutive year, Drury University students will perform Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues from Feb. 23-25 at 8 p.m. The performances will take place in the Findlay Student Center Ballroom at Drury University. The public is welcome to attend. Tickets cost $5. Proceeds from the event will benefit Springfield’s Harmony House. Continue reading →

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Drury senior earns an internship at the Kennedy Center

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Mark Miller

Drury senior Jonathan Thomas will spend the spring as an intern at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Thomas will intern for the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center. Thomas is one of 24 interns who were selected for the program. Continue reading →

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Drury students spend the summer in Africa as part of their faith

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Mark Miller

All Drury students get a global education. In fact, all students earn a minor in global studies. Over the summer, three Drury students actually lived globally. They spent six weeks in Togo, a small, French-speaking West African nation, with Cru Ministries (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ). Continue reading →

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Traveling the world to research marine life

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Mark Miller

A college student studying water biology in the Ozarks will spend a lot of time examining water quality, fish habitats and hellbender salamanders; but Drury senior biology major Angela Ostendorf is interested in whales, manatees and dolphins, and she’s gone out of her way to get that education while attending Drury. Continue reading →

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Drury senior earns fellowship to Washington University worth more than $20,000 per year

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Mark Miller

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., May 10, 2011 –Drury Senior Quinton Aiken has received a half-tuition Harold P. Brown Engineering Fellowship to Washington University in St. Louis to begin his dual-degree engineering studies next fall. Aiken’s fellowship is worth $20,475 per year. While … Continue reading →

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