Category: Official News Releases

Jean-Pierre Taoutel, senior lecturer at the University of Iowa, and Jane El-Qass, Drake University Language Acquisition Program language partner, will give a presentation on Arabic calligraphy.

Ramesh Dhussa, Drake University associate professor of geography, and Drake students Michaela Mullin and Patricia Phillips will read from their fiction and poetry.

The concert will feature saxophone players: Jean-Pierre Baraglioli of France, William Street of Canada, Keiji Munesada of Japan and Richard Dirlam of the United States.

The final Drake Neighborhood Farmers' Market of the season will feature free food and cooking demonstrations by Chef Joe Godfroy.

The Drake Environmental Action League hopes to involve the community and increase environmental awareness and activism from the grassroots level.

Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, will present "Transnational Challenges to Security" as a part of Drake University's lecture series on the United States and the World.

The Des Moines Register Publisher Laura Hollingsworth and Executive Editor Carolyn Washburn will present "The Des Moines Register - Tradition and Transformation" as part of Drake's "Let's DU Lunch" series.

Drake junior Tara Richards recently was appointed to the Iowa College Student Aid Commission as the only student commissioner on the board.

Des Moines artist Peggy Johnston will teach a bookmaking workshop as part of Drake's "Book Arts: Dialogues and Languages" series.

Fred Arroyo will present "Close as Pages in a Book: Reading, Writing and the Power of Linguistic Memories."