What: Let’s DU Lunch featuring Danika Portz
Where:  Des Moines Club, 666 Grand Avenue (34th Floor of Ruan Building)
When: Wednesday, May 4, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Cost: $17; $13 for young alumni
RSVP: https://alumni.drake.edu/letsdulunch

You’re invited to Let’s DU Lunch on Wednesday, May 4, at 11:30 a.m. at the Des Moines Club to hear from alumna and rising country music star Danika Portz. Let’s DU Lunch is  a professional speaker series that lets you hear firsthand from Drake and Des Moines leaders.

The road to stardom is often formed when passion and talent meet opportunity.  With her hit release, “Greatest Show on Earth,”  Drake alumna Danika Portz, BN’11, is a rising star in country music.  Danika will discuss how she broke into the music industry, life on tour, and what her fans can expect in the future.

Danika will also give a special performance at 6 p.m. at Gilroy’s, 1238 8th St., West Des Moines.

Join Professor Jennifer Harvey and UNITY Roundtable today, May 2, 8–9 p.m., in Parents Hall South, Olmsted Center, for a dialogue around diversity in the classroom to get a better understanding of the intersection between social reality and personal identities.

—Thalia Anguiano

Join LEAD 100 students in a refugee simulation on Wednesday, May 4, 6–8 p.m. in Parent’s Hall. A series of hands-on simulation activities will help you better understand the experience of refugee resettlement, and teach you what you can do to help refugees in Iowa. Bring your friends, and brave refugee resettlement together as a “family.”

—Kaitlin Brueggen

Monday, May 2
Drake Jazz Ensemble II, James Romain, director
7:30 p.m.
Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center

Chamber Strings Ensemble Concert
7:30 p.m.
Sheslow Auditorium

Tuesday, May 3
Percussion Ensemble Concert
7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Hall

Wednesday, May 4
Drake Orchestra Concert, Akira Mori, conductor
7:30 p.m.
Sheslow Auditorium

Thursday, May 5
Junior Recital, Grant Simmons, percussion
7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Hall

Friday, May 7
Senior Recital, Valeria Zamaraeva, musical theatre
7:30 p.m.
Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center

Students, alumni, techies, artists, crafters, DIY lovers, nerds (aka anyone) are invited to the next Pop-up Creativity Fair—co-sponsored by Cowles Library, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Entrepreneurship Centers—on Friday, April 29, from 12 to 3 p.m. outside Cowles Library. Learn more on Facebook.

—Dianna Gray, Outreach Coordinator

Please join us for the last event of our 2015–2016 series on death and dying—a lecture on medical ethics in the Catholic Tradition by Gerard Magill, Vernon F. Gallagher Chair and Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on May 5 at 7 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room (second floor of Cowles Library). NOTE THAT THIS IS A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL!

The Catholic tradition ethically engages the medicalization of death and dying by utilizing a natural law approach within the context of a sacramental theology. Such an approach recognizes both dignity and futility in the dying process and uses double-effect reasoning to resolve medicalization-related dilemmas. This presentation discusses a variety of scenarios in end-of-life care including PVS patients, maternal-fetal conflicts, and terminal sedation in palliative care (as a response to assisted suicide).

Gerard Magill is the Vernon F. Gallagher Chair for the Integration of Science, Theology, Philosophy, and Law at Duquesne University. He has published seven books, authored over 60 professional articles, and delivered more than 200 presentations on health care ethics and the Roman Catholic tradition.

—Tim Knepper, Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair

Monday, April 25
Saxophone Quartet Recital
8 p.m.
Sheslow Auditorium

Tuesday, April 26
Drake Wind Symphony Concert, Robert Meunier, conductor
7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Hall

Wednesday, April 27
Combo Night
7 p.m.
Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center

Thursday, April 28
Turner Center Jazz Orchestra presents: Burnin’ with Buddy
By request, an evening devoted to the brilliant drummer/bandleader Buddy Rich, featuring Mark Grimm on the drums
7:30 p.m.
Cost: Admission charged—student rush tickets available.

Thursday, April 28
The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, featuring pianists Nicholas Roth and Pablo Valladares, with Akira Mori conducting an ensemble of Drake student musicians
7:30 p.m.
Sheslow Auditorium

Thursday, April 28–Sunday, May 1
Drake Theatre Department presents: The Wild Party, by Andrew Lippa
Directed and choreographed by Karla Kash
April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m.
May 1 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students, seniors and those with a Drake Card
Studio 55

Friday, April 29–Friday, May 13
Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition II: Ipseity
Featuring works by Jenna Boures, Brett Budzinski, and Pam Mulhern
Anderson Gallery

Saturday, April 30
Senior Recital, Bailie Swick, musical theatre
1:30 p.m.
Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center

Sunday, May 1
Junior Recital, Angela Gust, soprano
7:30 p.m.
Sheslow Auditorium

—Emily Kruse, Assistant to the Dean