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Alumni

Your journey with us extends far beyond graduation. Reconnect and reminisce with fellow graduates, faculty, and the ever-evolving world of healthcare. Explore the wealth of opportunities to stay engaged, from networking events and mentorship programs to exclusive resources and updates. Your continued involvement and contributions enrich the legacy of excellence that defines our College. Join us as we celebrate achievements, share experiences, and embark on new horizons together.

Alumni

Keep in Touch with CPHS!

The College and its students greatly benefit from long lasting alumni relationships. Your engagement is valued, whether that be in the form of presenting to a class, receiving an award, making a donation, or simply stopping by campus to say hello. If you're looking for ways to get involved or stay involved with Drake and CPHS, you're in the right place.

Better Together

The College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences releases an e-newsletter for alumni and community members every quarter featuring achievements and awards, career and life updates, College news, a message from the Dean, spotlight features, upcoming events, photos and publications, job postings, and more! You can receive this newsletter each quarter by updating your records on Drake's Alumni & Development webpage and ensuring you include your current email address. Updating this information also ensures you receive Drake Blue, the University-wide alumni magazine.

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Share Your News

We want to brag about you! To share notable information such as awards, additional education, birth/adoption, publications, death, employment, or marriage and get a chance to be included in the Class Notes section of the Drake Blue magazine as well as CPHS' Better Together newsletter; fill out the Class Notes form on the Alumni & Development website. If you'd like to share an achievement on social media or another CPHS communications platform, please contact Molly Bath, CPHS Communications Manager. 

Submit a Class Note

 

Network

Are you or your workplace searching for a caring, competent healthcare professional who shares your connection to Drake? Hire a CPHS student or alum! Fill out the Alumni Job Opportunity Submissions Form to feature a job in the next College newsletter or visit our Employers page to learn how you can advertise a job for current students or young alumni on Handshake.

Job Opportunity Submission Form

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Follow us on Social Media

Stay up to date on events, read publications and news articles, watch fun lab Reels, and be the first to hear about all of the College happenings by following our CPHS social media channels. We love to feature our alumni!

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CPHS Alumni Events

Explore upcoming opportunities to reconnect with your alma mater and classmates.

A Drake alumni shakes the hand of the Dean as he accepts his award

Awards Ceremony

Join us during Relays to honor alumni, faculty, and other distinguished healthcare professionals; including the Weaver Medal of Honor recipient.

An alum and the Dean laugh and drink together at Drake Relays

Drake Relays

CPHS partners with Drake Alumni & Development to hold an array of events for alumni to reconnect during Relays; including drinks with the Dean, continuing education, and more.

A large cohort of pharmacy students pose with their diplomas at the white coat ceremony

Coating Ceremonies

Beginning in 1988, this tradition serves as a milestone for professional healthcare students at Drake. Coat sponsorships provide a meaningful opportunity for alumni to give back to their profession.

Make a Gift

Your generosity makes a direct impact on the education and experiences that CPHS students receive. Alumni play a foundational role in the growth and sustainability of the College and its programs. Give back to students and to your profession through professional coat donations, contributions to alumni-supported scholarship funds, or simply by visiting Drake's Online Giving site.

Specify where you'd like to allocate your donation by selecting the "Other" designation in the "Give To" box, then simply type the name of the College or the specific fund you'd like to contribute to.

General Donations Award Funds Coat Sponsorship Program Purchase a CPHS Print
Drake alumni pose with the Dean at the Drake tent at a golf fundraiser