Cheer on the Bulldog softball team as they take on Bradley this Friday and Saturday at home.

Softball
Drake vs. Bradley (doubleheader)
Friday, March 30, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Buel Field

Softball
Drake vs. Bradley
Saturday, March 31 at 12 p.m.
Buel Field

For more information, contact the Drake Athletics Ticket Office at 515-271-3647 or visit www.godrakebulldogs.com.

— Ryan Harris, Athletics

The Comparison Project is hosting its next lecture on miracles Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center. The lecture, “Fear, Loathing, and Miracles among the Cowherders: Krishna’s Childhood Prodigies,” will be presented by Richard H. Davis, professor of religion and Asian studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Formerly he taught as assistant and associate professor at Yale University.

Read more about the lecture.

—Monique Rodriguez, College of Arts and Sciences

Join The Harkin Institute on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. to hear a panel of national security experts discuss how to keep America safe from the top global security threats of the day.

The discussion will address existing global security threats to the United States, both at home and abroad, and what is being done to keep the country safe.

The Sussman Lecture Series is dedicated to the study of issues that define our public life and to engaging students and citizens in constructive dialogue regarding these issues.

Established by Richard Sussman, AS’51, in memory of his late wife Lila, the Sussman Lecture Series takes place twice a year and invites notable public figures to discuss topical current events.

Tickets are required and seating is limited. Register now.

—Emily Schettler, The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement

The College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will award its highest honor, the 2018 Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor, to Iowa pharmacist and entrepreneur Greg Johansen. He will receive the Weaver Medal of Honor and deliver a lecture, titled “Opportunity and Risk,” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in Sheslow Auditorium. The lecture is open to all faculty, staff and students.

The Weaver Medal of Honor is awarded annually to an individual who has advanced the college’s education, research or outreach mission for the benefit of human health; has made a substantial impact on the profession of pharmacy; or has provided financial support that has led to strategic change and progress in the College.

Johansen is a 1976 graduate of Drake’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with a successful career in pharmacy operations and a long history of philanthropic support to his alma mater and to his profession.

Read a news release to learn more.

— Marilea Chase, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Professor Ken Kersch of Boston College will present “The Development of Constitutional Conservatism” on March 29 at 3 p.m. at Cartwright Hall, Room 213. The lecture, which is part of the Drake Constitutional Law Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series, is free and open to everyone.

Kersch is a professor of political science and was the founding director of Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. He is currently a distinguished research fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Kersch’s chief interests are in American political and constitutional development, American legal history, and American political thought. He is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Edward S. Corwin Award, the J. David Greenstone Prize from APSA’s politics and history section, and the Hughes-Gossett Award from the Supreme Court Historical Society. He has authored numerous articles and books, including The Supreme Court and American Political Development and Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law. He is also completing a series of books on conservative constitutional thought in the postwar U.S. and a book on American political thought.

For more information, see the news release.

— Kayla Choate, Law School

The Central Iowa Chapter of the Risk Management Association is holding a free lunch and learn event on Friday, April 5, for those interested in a career in the financial industry.

Robert Messer, senior executive vice president and chief financial officer for American National Bank of Texas and chair of the Risk Management Association, is the featured speaker. He will discuss major shifts in our society and five essential skills for any organization or person that strives to prosper in the future.

The lunch and learn will take place in the Parents Hall South of the Olmsted Center at 11:30 a.m. Doors open at 11:15 a.m. The event is free to all students. Register by April 3. Space is limited to the first 50 registrants. Your registration includes both the presentation and lunch.

— Dianna Gray, College of Business & Public Administration

Casey Plett, an accomplished writer who has won the LAMDA Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction, will provide a reading followed by a short discussion on Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room. Plett writes and speaks to issues that are important to all communities, in particular, the LGBTQ community. Attendees will have a chance to hear good prose and learn about the literary conversation surrounding literature by and about people who identify as transgender. The event is sponsored by the Susan Glaspell Writers and Critics Series. For more information, contact Yasmina Madden at yasmina.madden@drake.edu.

— Yasmina Madden, English Department

Alpha Phi Omega, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Kappa Alpha Theta will host an ethnic food drive March 26 through April 6. Tabling will take place in the Olmsted Breezeway from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The ethnic food drive aims to raise funds and collect food for the ethnically diverse population in Des Moines. The drive will benefit the Des Moines Area Religious Council’s 13 food pantries and the people they serve throughout the Des Moines community.

In addition to the ethnic food drive, the initiative involves educational programming for the Drake community. A panel of local representatives in the Des Moines area will discuss food insecurity on March 29 at 7 p.m. in CR 310.

— Brittany Freeman

Delta Sigma Pi will host its seventh semi-annual Leadership Lecture Series today, March 26, from 7 to 8 p.m. in Sussman Theater. Sue Mattison, provost at Drake, is the featured speaker and will discuss her career path, what a provost does, and give some career advice.

— Jenny Goodale