Category: Official News Releases

Prize-winning author and poet Gary Gildner will return to Drake University after 16 years as part of the Drake Writers and Critics series on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

The fall season of the Humanities Center Colloquium series will continue with a presentation by Megan Brown, assistant professor of English, on "Somehow We All Survived: The Ideology of the U.S. Backlash Against Risk Management," from 3:30-5 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 9.

Renowned jazz saxophonist Adam Niewood and his Rabble Rousers jazz quartet from New York City will perform a public concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Performing Arts Hall of the Harmon Fine Arts Center at Drake University, 25th Street and Carpenter Avenue.

International human rights expert Rhonda Howard-Hassmann will deliver a free, public lecture on "Reparations to Africa for the Slave Trade," at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium.

Drake University's International Film Series will continue at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, with a screening of "Grave of the Fireflies" (Hokaru no Haka), a Japanese film with English subtitles.

Drake students saw Lou Diamond Phillips in a new light -- out of character, stage makeup and without a speaking accent, wig or costume.

From Nov. 8-11, Drake University Theatre will present Tony Award-winning musical "Company," with book by George Furth and music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim.

Professor Samuel Issacharoff of the New York University School of Law will give a lecture on "Democracy at War" on Thursday, Nov. 8, at Drake University Law School.

With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, Drake University has launched the Iowa Caucus Project and "My Prez" program to encourage students to attend campus events with presidential candidates and engage in public discussion about issues.

Drake University alumnus Larry D. Zimpleman, president and chief operating officer of The Principal Financial Group, will give the annual Financial Executives International – Drake School of Accounting Lecture.