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Featured Events Archive

Panel: The Future of Trade in an Era of Anti-Globalism

A panel on the future of trade will take place Tuesday, April 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Parents Hall South, Olmsted Center. Panelists include Jim McCaughan, Bob Baur, and Rachel Paine Caufield. Matthew Mitchell, associate professor of international business, will moderate the panel.

Jim McCaughan is an executive with the Principal Financial Group. He is president, global asset management, and chief executive officer of Principal Global Investors. Bob Baur is executive director and chief global economist for Principal Global Investors. In these capacities, he establishes and directs global economic policy and strategy, oversees and conducts macroeconomic and quantitative research, forecasts economic trends and anticipates market movements, and advises the investment staff in making economically sound investment decisions. McCaughan and Baur are frequently quoted by the financial news media and appear regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, among others. Rachel Paine Caufield is an associate professor of political science at Drake. She teaches courses on American politics, with special attention to political institutions, and has coordinated candidate visits and led efforts to host national presidential debates and forums with ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fusion TV.

— Denise Ganpat, Center for Global Citizenship

Featured Events Archive

Mass in C Major choral concert

Nearly 300 singers and instrumentalists will perform Beethoven’s dramatic and exciting “Mass in C Major” on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. at St. Ambrose Cathedral, located at 6th Avenue and High Street in downtown Des Moines. The concert will feature all four Drake choruses, a faculty/student orchestra, and four student soloists: Laurel Cramer, soprano; Mollie Lawler, mezzo-soprano; Trevor Ross, tenor; and Paxton Gillespie, baritone. Tickets are $17 for non-students and $7 for students and can be purchased through Friday, April 20, online or at the Drake Fine Arts Box Office by calling 515-271-3841.  If tickets remain, they will be sold at the door, beginning 45 minutes prior to the start of the concert. For further information, contact Aimee Beckmann-Collier, director of choral studies, at aimee.beckmann-collier@drake.edu or 515-271-2841.

— Aimee Beckmann-Collier, college of Arts and Sciences

Featured Events Archive

Fatima: Examining Catholicism’s Greatest Modern Miracle

The Comparison Project presents a lecture by Michael O’Neill, miracle investigator, author, and creator of the website MiracleHunter.com, on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater.

O’Neill will examine Catholicism’s most famous—and highly approved—modern miracle: The visions of the Virgin Mary being reported by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal in 1917. These events, including the purported great “Sun Miracle” and the inexplicable healings that led to the canonization of the visionaries as the youngest saints in history, provide a perfect backdrop for understanding the centuries-old mechanisms and stringent criteria for investigating and validating claims of the supernatural used by the Catholic Church even in today’s modern world.

O’Neill, a graduate of Stanford University and member of the Mariological Society of America, was the consultant for National Geographic’s December 2015 cover story and map about the Virgin Mary, “The Most Powerful Woman in the World.” His books include Exploring the Miraculous (Our Sunday Visitor 2015), 365 Days with Mary (Salt Media 2016), and 20 Answers: Apparitions & Revelations (Catholic Answers 2017).

— Monique Rodriguez, College of Arts and Sciences

News & Achievements Archive

West accepted to Transatlantic Conversations workshop

Lisa West, associate professor of English, was invited to the Transatlantic Conversations workshop held this October at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Jointly sponsored by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies and the Society of Early Americanists, the workshop brings together scholars from different countries to address a common methodological or theoretical issue in early American Studies.

Participants will share primary archival research and their own work in progress, with the goal of rethinking transnational approaches to early American literature. West will focus on the study of material and visual culture, working with scholars from Canada, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Other groups will work on religion, environmental humanities, periodicals, and medicine.

Within the English Department at Drake, West teaches courses in early American literature and environmental writing. She has recently completed work on early American periodicals, theories of fiction, and early representations of domestic abuse. She also works on early American sense of place, including the way early American antiquities and signs of a cultural past threatened views of an American nature.

News & Achievements Archive

Kieran and Haack accepted for Community Engagement publication

Laura Kieran, assistant professor of special education, and Sally Haack, associate professor of pharmacy practice, have been accepted for publication. Their manuscript, “PRELOAD: A Rubric to Evaluate Course Syllabi for Quality Indicators of Community Engagement and Service-Learning Components,” will be published in the Journal of Community Engagement & Higher Education. In addition, their article has been accepted for presentation at the International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement (IARSLCE) this summer.

— Renee Sedlacek, Community Engaged Learning & Service

News & Achievements Archive

CBPA students spend weekend giving back

More than 100 students came together to give back during the College of Business and Public Administration Service Weekend on April 6 and 7. Student volunteers served over 340 cumulative hours during the two-day event and worked at nine different locations throughout the metro community. Students helped with things such as hunger relief, housing assistance, clothing shelters, food pantry assistance, elderly care, and recovery program relief. They played bingo at Calvin Community Retirement Home, served a meal at The Hope Café, and organized and sorted donations at Encore Thrift Shops. Volunteers also packed over 20,000 meals at Meals from the Heartland. To cap off the weekend, a speaker from the United Way educated participants on food insecurity.

— Haley Dietz, Service Director of Phi Chi Theta

HR Information Archive

Des Moines Corporate Games

The Des Moines Corporate Games is an eight-week company based competition (June 3 – July 31) that promotes teamwork and company pride. And, it is a lot of fun!

You may participate in one or more events. Events range from team-based to individual and competitive to recreational. All activities are held in the evenings and weekends, and are free (except for golf cart rental). The games are open to all full-time and regular part-time employees, interns, and retirees. Drake will compete against other local companies for a chance to win individual and team medals as well as the Corporate Games trophy.

We need as many people as possible to be a part of these games and to show our Drake pride. Do you see any sports or events you can participate in to help Drake take home the coveted Corporate Cup?

Contact Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu for more information.

Sport/Event Opportunities

Bags Basketball 3-on-3 Basketball Shooting
Blood Donation Challenge Bowling Burst Your Thirst Challenge
Cross Country Race – 4K & 8K Cycling Tour Ride Disc Golf
Dodgeball Duathlon Fitness Walk (Ames & Des Moines)
Golf – 4 person best shot Road Race – 5K & 10K Sand Volleyball
Spikeball Track & Field Triathlon
Trivia (NEW this year) Tug of War Ultimate
Yoga Zumba (Ames & Des Moines)

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

HR Information Archive

Service recognition celebration

Join Human Resources on Wednesday, May 2, as we honor Drake employees who celebrated 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 years of service from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 and those who are retiring or have recently retired.

This year’s event will be part of the Drake faculty/staff social on May 2 at 4 p.m. at the Shivers Hospitality Suite, adjacent to the Knapp Center.

Take a moment to stop by and congratulate your co-workers.

40-Year Anniversary:
Kathy Jefferson

35-Year Anniversaries:
Andrea Charlow, Claudia Frazer, LaRhee Henderson, Aggie Jones, Joe Lenz, William Lewis

30-Year Anniversaries:
Danny Beaty, Ronald Caudle, Venetta Hammond, Janet McMahill, Elizabeth Robertson, Robert Stensrud, David Wright

25-Year Anniversaries:
Andrew Classen, Laurie Dore, Matthew Dore, Gary Johnson, Nancy Reincke

20-Year Anniversaries:
Matthew Esposito, Michael Fucaloro, Donna Knight-Donovan, Carrie Lewis, Glenn McKnight, Paula Peterson, Scott Raecker, Maria Reyes, Lola Spear, Jolaine Sweiger, Sofia Turnbull, Desi Woods

15-Year Anniversaries:
Shaunarae Bury, Mary Butterwick, Richard Calvert, Anthony Doss, Paul Judd, Robert Lampman, JoBeth Malone-Schoneberg, Jeannie Nielsen, Michael Rothmayer, Heidi Sleister, Heather Stemsrud, Inchul Suh, Keith Summerville, Elisabeth West

10-Year Anniversaries:
Sandra Alvarez-Herrera, Bridget Arrasmith, Heidi J. Ball, Mary Byers, Ronald Cliff, Cassandra Clyde, Brina Coppi, Brad Crowell, Debra Dodge, Darla Eastman, Muir Eaton, Brandy Eganhouse, Bengu Erguner-Tekinalp, Jordan Flynn, Rick Fox, Alice Fynaardt, Eduardo Garcia Villada, Sarah Grady, Lisa Grulke, Alison Harms, Renee Hennessy, Pramod Mahajan, Amahia Mallea, Mary McCarthy, James McNab, Christine Miller, Kristine Plagman, Sarah Plum, Kimberly Puetz, Donald Severs, Jennifer Tran-Johnson, Richard White, Gary Williamson

5-Year Anniversaries:
Ann Allen, Heather Armstrong, Lisa Bailey, Jenifer Baugher, Jack Bush, William Cashmore, Leslee Cran, Armando Davila, Diane Eischeid, Megan Franklin, Thomas Ginn, Kristin Glenn, Dianna Gray, Alyssa Harrell, Ryan Harris, Matthew Hayden, Sara Heijerman, Carla Herling, Jerome Hilscher, Terry Janssen, Jeffrey Kappen, Deborah Kent, David Kozlowski, Kevin Lam, Aimee Lane, Diana Lei-Butters, Eric Lindstrom, Darrin McBroom, Wendy Mobley-Bukstein, Alicia Munoz Martinez, Bridget Nixon, Kevin O’Connor, Shannon Odenbach, Tyler Patton, Kelly Read, Judith Russell, James Sacco, Charitie Schaer, Miguel Schor, Stephanie Sinovic, Stephanie Sledge, Austin Strawhacker, Donna Tuttle, Timothy Welty, Beth Wilson

Retirees:
Garry Frank, Thomas Heger, LaRhee Henderson, Aggie Jones, Gloria Lawless, William Lewis, Larry Naylor, Carolyn Nelson, Thomas Pokos, Marla Rigby, M. Christine Schneider, Terry Thorpe, David Wright, Eleanor Zeff

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

Campus Announcements Archive

Help Drake win the Network Choice Award

We need your vote! Drake is a finalist for the Iowa Campus Compact Network Choice Award. The Food for All culturally diverse food drive has been selected as one of three finalists for the Iowa Campus Compact Network Choice Award. The food drive was organized by three student organizations, Alpha Phi Omega (a service fraternity), Alpha Kappa Psi (a business fraternity), and Kappa Alpha Theta (a social sorority), in partnership with several Des Moines community partner organizations including IMPACT Community Action Agency and the Des Moines Area Religious Council.

To vote for the project, visit the Facebook page and like the Food for All picture. Voting will close Monday, April 23, at 12 p.m. The project with the most votes wins.

— Renee Sedlacek, Community Engaged Learning & Service