Category: Official News Releases

Brian Duffy, editorial cartoonist at the Des Moines Register since 1983, will present a Live! @ Cowles Library event at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Drake's College of Business and Public Administration and Department of Politics will host a stop on the Concord Coalition's Fiscal Wake-Up Tour. The event will start at 5 p.m. Thursday.

The Grammy Award-winning Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Harriet Mayor Fulbright will give a lecture titled "Citizen Diplomacy: An Essential Element of Foreign Policy" at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Contrary to popular wisdom, it is possible to be a good lawyer and a good person. That's the message that ethics expert Michael Josephson will bring to Drake Law School on Thursday, Jan. 25, when he addresses 140 first-year students about the vital importance of ethics in the legal profession.

The School of Management and Communication will host Cara Heiden of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage for its Executive in Residence at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Mary L. Dudziak, the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado professor of law, history and political science at the University of California Law School, will give a lecture titled "Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey" on Monday, Jan. 29.

"Cuba: Women Artists in the Revolution," featuring rare works by major Cuban artists, opens Friday, Jan. 26 for the first time in the Midwest.

Approximately 140 first-year students in Drake Law School will visit the State Capitol on Friday, Jan. 19, for an introduction to the legislative process as part of Drake's year-long orientation program for the first-year class.

Linda Krypel, associate professor of pharmacy practice, is one of four individuals nationwide selected as a 2007 Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.