What: Crash, Squeak, Buzz: A Sonic Adventure
When: Thursday, April 20, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Turner Jazz Center

Civic Music Association is pleased to a present a FREE music, sound, and creativity program designed for music and non-music majors alike. Spend an hour with Chicago-based chamber music group Ensemble Dal Niente and super-charge your creative energies as you prepare for the final weeks of the semester. No instruments required. Just bring yourself and be ready for an adventure.

—Alina Grimm, College of Arts & Sciences

Student Disability Services “First Friday” series will have its last meeting on April 21 from 1 to 2 p.m. in Olmsted Center, Rooms 310/311. Annika Grassl, Jackie Heymann, and Courtney Nelson, members of Disability Action Awareness Community (DAAC) will share their experiences and ways to improve experiences for students with disabilities on campus followed by a Q&A.

—Leah Berte, Student Disability Services

Ever sat in the stands and dreamed of participating in the Drake Relays? Now you can! The Drake Road Races Half Marathon and 5K on Saturday, April 29, is not only for runners of all skill levels and ages, it is also for Drake students, faculty, and staff. Your association with Drake means you get something no one else gets, a price break!

Register online at www.drakerelays.org. Click on the Drake Road Races information. Register with your Drake email account and use the discount code bulldogs when prompted to save $5 off race registration.

Your race entry also includes admission to the Drake Relays Distance Carnival on Thursday night. But hurry; there is a fee increase coming up so sign up now and save even more. Make this year your race and your Drake Relays!

Grand Blue Mile | Tuesday, April 25 | 6 p.m. | Register Now | More Info

Drake Road Races | Saturday, April 29 | Half Marathon or 5K | Register Now

Bulldog Double | Griff – GBM and Half Marathon | Spike – GBM and 5K

—Tom Florian, Drake Athletics

We know the stars and other solar systems are trillions of miles away. In fact, astronomers have calculated some objects to be billions of trillions of miles away. It just takes simple geometry. Learn more at a lecture on April 21 at 8 p.m. at the Drake Municipal Observatory. Learn more here.

Several students and organizations will be honored for their outstanding contributions to campus this year, including the prestigious Oreon E. Scott Award recipient. The Adams Leadership Convocation will take place on Friday, April 21, in Sheslow Auditorium. The program will begin promptly at 12:15 pm. Categories and nominees can be viewed online.

—Meghan Baeza, Student Leadership Programs

The Center for the Humanities invites all members of the campus community to the 3rd Annual Myron Marty Lectureship in the Arts + Humanities on Wednesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Cartwright Hall, Room 213. Tiffany Stern, professor of Shakespeare and early modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; and Daniel Grimley, professor of music at Oxford University, will present the lecture titled, “Sounding Shakespeare.”

Join The Harkin Institute at Policy on Tap,  a professional panel comprised of health care professionals discussing accessibility to prescription medication and health disparities for Iowa’s underinsured and uninsured. It will be Monday, April 10, 5–7 p.m. at Lefty’s Live Music. Appetizers will be provided and a cash bar will be available.

—Sarah Mattes, The Harkin Institute

Rekha Basu, a columnist for The Des Moines Register whose byline has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, USA Today, India Today, and The International Herald will deliver a free lecture on April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room. Learn more in the Drake Newsroom.