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Keys to Excellence presents Nicholas Roth and colleagues in Schumann Program

Keys to Excellence presents Nicholas Roth and colleagues in Schumann Program

Nicholas Roth, professor of piano at Drake University, will present the Sally B. Bartlett Memorial Concert as the next installment of the Drake University Keys to Excellence Piano Series on Monday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free. Sally Bartlett was a long-time supporter of the Drake piano program. Her many...

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Drake University professor’s study cited in 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

Professor Klaus Bartschat’s 2014 paper identified a source of error in experimental results obtained with Nobel Prize-winning technology This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three Laureates for the development of extremely short laser pulses, which—for the first time—can be used to image electron dynamics in atoms and molecules. This breakthrough enables the...

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Keys to Excellence features Garik Pedersen in The Victory Vertical Piano Project Oct. 2

Keys to Excellence features Garik Pedersen in The Victory Vertical Piano Project Oct. 2

The annual concert series features internationally acclaimed pianists. All concerts are held at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University; admission is free. Garik Pedersen, emeritus professor of Eastern Michigan University, will present the opening concert of the 2023–2024 season of the Drake University Keys to Excellence Piano Series on Monday, Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in...

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Drake University, Polk County Conservation partner on Brown’s Woods restoration project

Drake University, Polk County Conservation partner on Brown’s Woods restoration project

New Standards-based Ecological Restoration program provides valuable project funding One of West Des Moines’ most popular parks could play a role in mitigating the impacts of climate change in Iowa. Drake University and Polk County Conservation are partnering together on the Brown’s Woods Restoration and Oak Regeneration Project. The initiative seeks to increase carbon sequestration...

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Keys to Excellence features Israeli-American pianist Nadia Weintraub

Keys to Excellence features Israeli-American pianist Nadia Weintraub

Highly acclaimed pianist Nadia Weintraub will present the final concert of the 2022–2023 season for the Drake University Keys to Excellence Piano Series on Monday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free. The program for the performance is: The Piano in Poetry, Romance, and Dance Clara Schumann Romance in A minor, Op.21,...

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Drake alumni establish endowed professorships in physics and biology

Drake alumni establish endowed professorships in physics and biology

The Drake University College of Arts & Sciences announces two new endowed professorships: the Mark J. Jarrett Professorship in Physics and the Marshall and Judith Flapan Professor of Biology. These $1 million named, endowed funds are major gifts and the first endowed professorships of The Ones: Drake’s Campaign for the Brave & Bold. They represent...

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Drake political scientist publishes study of secret police

Kieran Williams, assistant professor and co-chair of the Department of Political Science, has published a chapter on the secret police in Communist Czechoslovakia in the book Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969–1989, edited by Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe. Williams’s chapter charts the rebuilding of a web of surveillance in the...