Category: Official News Releases

The Drake Choir and Drake University/Community Chorus will join the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra to perform BeethovenÃ*��s Ninth Symphony and Ã*��The Promise of LivingÃ*�� by Aaron Copland on Sept. 17 and Sept. 18.

The Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center will be open to the public for a reception on Friday, Sept. 16. The Turner Jazz Center will be open for tours, and plans for the fall concert season at the Turner Jazz Center will be announced throughout the evening.

David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, will deliver a speech titled "Constitutional rights ten years after 9/11: Has everything changed?"

The first concert in a series featuring new music will present songs for violin alone and for violin with electronics.

The Sept. 14 concert will feature jazz standards from all styles and eras, as well as original tunes and arrangements.

Drake University improved its overall ranking to stand alone in third among Midwest master's universities in the U.S. News Best Colleges 2012 rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report magazine.

Drake University will welcome parents and family of students this weekend with a packed schedule of events Friday, Sept. 16-Sunday, Sept. 18.

The Striving for Eternal Life (SFEL) Choir will visit Drake University at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 to share their uplifting reggae gospel sound along with their stories of hardship as refugee students from Burundi. The choir is led by Drake student Vincent Niyokwizera.

The Drake Municipal Observatory series, presented every Friday through October 28, consists of non-technical, illustrated presentations by Drake Astronomy lecturers. All lectures begin at 8 p.m. All fall lectures center on sky-themed topics.

The fall 2011 Drake University Science Colloquium Series features seven Drake professors discussing their research.