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Featured Events Archive

Celebrating innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship on campus

From Oct. 27 to Nov. 3, there are a series of events celebrating creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across campus.

Saturday, October 27, 6 PM: Station 1 Records Music Festival in Sheslow Auditorium. To kick off Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Week, Station 1 Records is hosting a music showcase. This event will feature some of the many talented Drake students. Bring a friend and show your creative side by coming in costume to this free event.

Monday, October 29, 4 to 7 PM: Delta Rx Next Top Entrepreneur Competition Final Round in Olin 206. This event is a pitch competition for students with innovative health care ideas.

Tuesday, October 30, 8 AM: Community Coffee with Drake Entrepreneurs. Come to Pomerantz Stage to learn about Lorentzen Hatchery student businesses, Debonair Supply Co. (Noah Brinkmeyer), Eximious (Matt Watson), and Up Next Des Moines (Zachary Krawiec). Learn how they got their business starts and about the Lorentzen Student Hatchery.

Wednesday, October 31, 5 PM: Celebrate Halloween with the Drake Innovators Club in the Innovation Studio, 124C Meredith. In addition to fun activities there will be snacks and beverages.

Thursday, November 1, 2 PM: Presentation by Dr. Stacy Gnacinski, Upper Olmsted, Rooms 210 & 311. She will be talking about her research and work on performance psychology.

Friday, November 2, 9 to 11:30 AM: Lorentzen Student Hatchery, 2018 cohort presentations, Levitt Hall. Students will talk about their experiences in the Hatchery and provide an overview of their businesses. The featured students are:
o Debonair Supply Co.: Noah Brinkmeyer
o Eximious: Matt Watson
o Mox Stats: Jacob Mox
o Native Adventures: Steven Leash
o THR: McKenna Haase
o Up Next Des Moines: Zachary Krawiec

Friday, November 2, 2 PM: Creativity and Innovation Fair featuring students from across campus, Cowles Library Reading Room. You’ll see presentations from students in studying pharmacy and health sciences, journalism, and marketing; Station 1 Records, Drake Innovators Club, and more, including special guests from Hoover High School’s STEM program.

Saturday, November 3, 9 AM: The Bark Tank pitch competition, Meredith 101. f you are a Drake student, undergraduate or graduate, with a great business or innovation idea, come pitch it at the Bark Tank to win up to $750. There are a limited amount of spots so be sure to register soon! Just want to watch? No need to register, just show up to Meredith 101 on Nov. 3.

Stephanie Cardwell, Entrepreneurship Centers

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Online learning series Thursday

The third session in our series on online learning is Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Drake Room in Olmsted from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The topic is Building Presence. These sessions are not meant to be “nuts and bolts” how-to sessions, but rather discussions of the issues related to the topic. You do not need to have experience teaching online to attend, nor do you have to have attended the previous session. There is no need to register.

Art Sanders, Associate Provost

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning session

The second Friday Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) session is on Oct. 26 at noon in TMR 133. These discussions are opportunities for those engaged in SoTL projects at any level—from just thinking about starting one, to almost complete, or those simply curious about SoTL—to share ideas, seek advice or ask questions of colleagues engaged in this process. Members of the IT Support Services staff will be present to provide advice/information about SoTL projects that might involve technology usage.  It is too late to order a lunch, but you are still welcome to join us.

Art Sanders, Associate Provost

HR Information Archive

Employee and Family Resources

Employee and Family Resources (EFR) offer a variety of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits to full-time Drake employees and their family members. Besides the more familiar services such as phone-based support and in-person counseling, they also offer financial and legal consulting, eldercare resources, childcare resources, and identity theft resolution services. Check out the Drake University EAP Benefit Summary for details.

If you would like a representative from EFR to attend your department meeting to discuss EAP benefits in detail, please contact Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

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Heart attack and stroke awareness presentation

Heart attack and stroke remain two of the leading causes of death in the United States. Ignoring your risks and failure to recognize the signs and symptoms can be fatal.

Join Chris Nickell, director, environmental health & safety, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Olmsted Center, Room 310/311, to learn what you need to know to recognize a heart attack or stroke and steps you can take to reduce your risk.

Participants will earn Bulldogs in Learning Drake (BUILD) credit and be entered into a drawing at the end of the semester.

An online registration form is available in myDrake. To access the form, click on All Apps and find the HR BUILD Classes app in the Other Employee Apps section.  You may also send an email to Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu to register for this class.

Linda Feiden, Human Resources

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The Comparison Project event

Title: “The Intertwining of Healing and Religion in a Contemporary Chinese American Community”
Speaker: Kin Cheung, Assistant Professor of Asian Religions, Department of Global Religions, Moravian College
When: Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m.
Where: Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center

Kin Cheung is an Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Global Religions at Moravian College. He has written on Buddhist meditation and healing, practical implications of Buddhist ethics, and Buddhist institutions’ involvement in China’s stock market. His dissertation examines how meditation changes the senses of self, using both scientific studies of meditation’s effects on the brain and Chan/Zen Buddhist descriptions.

In his lecture, Prof. Cheung will explore how healing and religion are intertwined in a Chinese-American community in New Jersey, where his father, CHEUNG Seng Kan, teaches a small group of regular students an eclectic practice of qigong meditation, Buddhist dharani chants, geomancy, and various Chinese medical treatments. Cheung has taken on the role of a community healer for his students and their social networks. This presentation argues that healing is one avenue for the contemporary innovation and spread of religion in a Chinese-American diaspora community.

Monique Rodriguez, College of Arts and Sciences

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Cool Jobs Expo

Horses (yes, real horses), Griff (and other dogs), and Girl Scout cookies will be part of the showcase of alumni with cool jobs featured at the second annual Cool Jobs Expo on Monday, Oct. 29, from 5—7 p.m. in (and near) Meredith Hall.

Hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the expo will feature a dozen employers presenting, in 15-minute drop-in sessions, what it took to get their cool job. Register in the Meredith Lobby starting at 4:30 p.m.

Bring your business card and your camera (remember, Griff!)

Carlyn Crowe, SJMC

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Banner 9 project update

The Banner 9 project team is focusing on a few things as the Admin Page portion of the project nears completion.

Training
The Banner 9 project team continues to be focused on campus training. Around two thirds of campus Banner users have received Banner 9 training. The plan is to schedule another five sessions of general navigation training between now and the Thanksgiving break. This will wrap up training efforts for Banner 9 Admin Pages.

Admin Page Customizations
The team is also finishing up testing for ten customizations and expects to wrap up this work in the next few weeks.

Eliminating Banner 8
The Banner 9 project team is targeting to turn off user access to Banner 8 INB and switch completely to Banner 9 Admin Pages at the beginning of the new year.

Questions? Please contact Kris Brewster at kristina.brewster@drake.edu or ext. 2305. Learn more about this and other ITS projects here.

Kris Brewster, ITS

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Take the ITS Student Phishing Quiz

Now through Nov. 2, ITS is holding a Phishing Quiz, a contest where Drake students can learn about how to identify phishing emails and fraudulent websites. The first 500 people to take the quiz will win a certificate for a free taco courtesy of Taco John’s. Everyone who completes the quiz will be entered to win one of ten additional prize packages. Visit www.drake.edu/its/phish today.

Additionally, ITS will have a table in the Olmsted breezeway on Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.; and Monday, Oct. 29, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Spin the wheel, answer an IT security question, and win more prizes.

Peter Lundstedt, ITS