Category: Official News Releases

The Drake Symphony Orchestra, John Canarina conducting, will present its winter concert featuring faculty member Leslie Marrs, flute, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4

Drake University Assistant Professor of Piano Nicholas Roth will perform a recital featuring works by Ravel, Schumann and Prokofiev on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium.

Drake University's International Film Series will conclude at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, with a screening of "Beijing Bicycle" (Shiqi sui de dan che) in Mandarin with English subtitles.

Award-winning writer and renowned leadership consultant Barry Posner will headline "The Leadership Challenge: The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Workshop" Friday, Nov. 30.

Brantley Gasaway, Drake University visiting professor in law, politics and society, will present "A Civil Right but Religious Wrong? Progressive Evangelical Responses to Homosexuality," a research conversation sponsored by Drake's Law, Politics and Society Program.

Drake Writers Night will conclude the fall semester of Drake University's Writers and Critics Series, sponsored by the Drake English Department and The Center for the Humanities.

Pandemic expert Mary J.R. Gilchrist and economist Michael Schoenbaum will give a joint lecture Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Drake University on "Plagues and Pandemics: From the Black Death in the Middle Ages to Bird Flu in the Age of Science."

Award-winning writer and renowned leadership consultant Barry Posner will headline "The Leadership Challenge: The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Workshop" on Friday, Nov. 30.

Robert Zink, professor in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota, will present, "The role of species concepts in evolutionary biology" Friday, Nov. 16, as part of Drake University's Science Colloquium Series.

Actor Carla Renata, who plays landlord Gary Coleman in "Avenue Q" at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, will visit Drake for an "In the Actors Studio"-style discussion.