Author: Carl Olsen (Carl Olsen)

Lisa West, associate professor of English at Drake, will deliver a talk as part of the fall Humanities Center Colloquium Series.

A dedication ceremony will be held in the new Dial Center classroom, which was remodeled as part of a project with a total cost of nearly $37,000.

Zakes Mda will make a presentation and read from his work as part of the fall Writers and Critics series.

Students will benefit from new programs and more children will have opportunities to learn through Drake Head Start, thanks to a generous grant.

Adam Liptak will present a lecture on "The Roberts Court in the Obama Era: A Reporter's Reflections."

Clarence Padilla, Cynthia Guinta and Nicholas Roth will perform William Dougherty's "Windsongs" featuring three movements inspired by wind.

Bill Taubman's lecture and Sergei Khrushchev's comments about his father provided powerful insights into one of the 20th century's most important figures.

Pharmacology professor Richard Morrow will give a lecture as part of the Midweek Muses and Munchies series.

Fred Arroyo, assistant professor of English at Drake, will talk about his novel, "The Region of Lost Names."

The market will host representatives from the Iowa Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center to talk about Type II diabetes.