The first Creator Fair is being held Wednesday, Sept. 28, 6–8 p.m., in the new Innovation Center in Meredith Hall, Room 124C. We’ll have a VR headset, a 360° camera, Legos, clay, a button maker, and more! Also FOOD! Bring a friend and come make stuff.
This event is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Centers, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Cowles Library.
Questions? Email innovation@drake.edu.
—Stephanie Cardwell, Administrative Assistant 2
Drake English Department will host the first Drake Writers’ Night for the 2016–2017 school year on Sept. 29, 7 p.m., in Medbury Lounge. Writers are invited to share their work or come to see what their classmates and colleagues are up to. This event is free and open to the public.
—Yasmina Madden, Visiting Instructor of English
Drake Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Center will host the first-ever Big IDEA Speaker Series this fall to bring intellectual property law experts to campus.
The first lecture is “The Innovation Ecosystem” featuring Dan Cosgrove of Pioneer on Sept. 29, 4:30-5:30 p.m., in the Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center. During the lecture, Cosgrove will speak about the ecosystem needed for innovation, how technology will be impacted by innovation, and where lawyers fit in the process.
Cosgrove is vice president of business development for the DuPont Agriculture Biotechnology Group at Pioneer. He leads the strategic approach in research business development by establishing alliances with technology providers and out-licensing technology. Cosgrove joined Pioneer in 2001 as leader of the Intellectual Property Group and corporate counsel. He previously practiced in the area of litigation and licensing at Zarley, McKee, Thomte, Voorhees & Sease in Des Moines.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
—Kayla Choate, Law School Alumni Affairs & Communications Coordinator
Fall 2016 International Film Series, made possible by a gift from the Evans Foundation
Theme: South American Politics and Human Rights
Countries: Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Sept. 25: No (No)
Location: Sussman Theater, lower level of Olmsted Center
Time: 2–4:30 p.m.
Topic: The “no” movement on the presidential referendum on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
Oct. 12: Hija de la Laguna (Daughter of the Lake)
Location: Meredith Hall, Room 101
Time: 7–9 p.m.
Topic: An Andean woman’s efforts to save lakes from the Peruvian gold rush
Oct. 23: Los Colores de la Montaña (The Colors of the Mountain)
Location: Sussman Theater, lower level of Olmsted Center
Time: 2–4:15 p.m.
Topic: A young man’s experience in the midst of armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting in the Colombian countryside
Nov. 13: El Clan (The Clan)
Location: Meredith Hall, Room 101
Time: 12–2:30 p.m.
Topic: Kidnapping for ransom in 1908s Argentina
—Denise Ganpat, Administrative Assistant 2
Drake Choir performs with Des Moines Symphony
The Drake Choir, the University’s select touring ensemble, will perform Beethoven’s electrifying Ninth Symphony with the Des Moines Symphony, under the direction of Maestro Joseph Giunta, on Sept. 24 (7:30 p.m.) and 25 (2:30 p.m.) at the Civic Center. The choir, which comprises 70 singers who are students in every college and school of the University, has frequently collaborated with the Des Moines Symphony and is honored to do so once again. Twelve Drake Choir alumni will also join the ensemble for these performances. A number of Drake music faculty are members of the Symphony, which was founded as the Drake University-Des Moines Symphony more than 75 years ago. Tickets for the performance can be obtained at the Symphony’s website, dmsymphony.org
Thomas Splitt in concert
Thomas Splitt, a pianist and composer who earned high acclaim for his fresh, improvisational style during the 1980s and 1990s will make his proud return to the concert stage for the first time in more than 15 years thanks in part to the efforts of Drake students. He will kick off a series of concerts on Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Harmon Fine Arts Center’s Performing Arts Hall; the performance is free and open to the public. To learn more about Splitt’s connection to Drake, visit the Drake Newsroom.
The Humanities Center Colloquium Series kicks off with a lecture from En Li, assistant professor of history, on Sept. 23, 3–5 p.m., in Levitt Hall. “Betting on Empire: Examination, Lottery, and Public Life in Nineteenth-Century China” begins with a study of a civil service examination scandal in 1885. A highly organized lottery scheme, where money was bet on surnames that would pass the state’s official selection examination, spurred manipulation of the exam results. This research shows gambling became an important part of public culture in late-Qing China for its reorganization of interpersonal relations; cultivation of a self-governed society; and facilitation of exchanges in information, materials, and capital in an increasingly interconnected empire.
—Jeff Karnicky, Associate Professor of English
Come and cheer on your Bulldogs!
Men’s Tennis
Drake Invitational
Sept. 23–25
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Rowing
Head of the Des Moines
Sept. 24 at TBA
Des Moines River
Football
Drake vs. Morehead State
Sept. 24 at 1 p.m.
Drake Stadium
*Homecoming & Parents/Family Weekend
Softball
Drake vs. Upper Iowa
Sept. 24 at 4 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Softball
Drake vs. Minnesota
Sept. 25 at 12 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Women’s Soccer
Drake vs. Evansville
Sept. 25 at 1 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex
*Stub Swap—Redeem your Sept. 24 football ticket stub for complimentary admission to the match
Questions? Call 515-271-3647 or email tickets@drake.edu.
—Tom Florian, Assistant Director, Ticket Operations and Donor Management
University of Miami School of Law Professor Mary Anne Franks will deliver the annual Constitution Day Lecture on Sept. 15, 1 p.m., in Cartwright Hall, Room 213. Her speech is titled “Guns, Speech, and Sex: The Rise of Constitutional Extremism.”
Franks—who teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, family law, and First Amendment law—is one of the nation’s leading experts on the issue of “revenge porn.” During the lecture, Franks will explain how extremists on both the Right and Left invoke an oversimplified interpretation of the U.S. Constitution to justify irrational and destructive agendas.
The event is sponsored by Drake Law School’s Constitutional Law Center and is free and open to everyone. For more information, visit the Drake Newsroom.
—Kayla Choate, Alumni Affairs & Communications Coordinator
On Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater, Elliot Dorff, rector of American Jewish University, will give the first lecture of the 2016–2017 Comparison Project on Jewish bioethics in the past and present. Find more information online.
—Tim Knepper, Professor of Philosophy
Come out and cheer on your Bulldogs!
Men’s Soccer
Drake vs. Green Bay
Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex
Women’s Soccer
Drake vs. Western Illinois
Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex
Women’s Tennis
Drake Invitational
Sept. 16–18
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Football
Drake vs. McKendree
Sept. 17 at 1 p.m.
Drake Stadium
Softball
Drake vs. DMACC
Sept. 17 at 4 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Men’s Soccer
Drake vs. Loyola
Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex
*Stub Swap—Redeem your football ticket from 9/17 for complimentary admission to the match!
Softball
Drake vs. Kirkwood
Sept. 18 at 12 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Questions? Call 515-271-3647 or email tickets@drake.edu.
—Tom Florian, Assistant Director, Ticket Operations and Donor Management
