It’s not too late to register for HealthTrip, Drake’s 2018 wellness activity program. HealthTrip is a fictitious journey to some familiar sounding cities such as Aerobiquerque, N.M. and Las Veggies. Each destination city features a unique health topic to explore. Participants earn Frequent Mover Miles by tracking activity such as walking, swimming, and playing basketball. Additionally, there are opportunities each month to earn bonus miles by completing a challenge.
The program is designed to work with your schedule. You may participate every month or just the months that work best for you. Prize drawings will be held monthly for those who complete the monthly challenge.
If you are interested in participating, send an email to Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu. You will receive details including an information sheet and the March brochure.
Andy Roat, owner of Fleet Feet Sports, will present “The ABC’s of Running” on Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Olmsted Center, Rooms 310 and 311. The presentation will discuss everything you need to know to be a successful runner–from training programs to shoes. Whether you are brand new to running or a seasoned road warrior, this presentation is for you. Not only will you walk away informed, but you could win a SMART ID tag. These small shoe tags are a great way to store important contact and medical information when you go for a walk or run.
Participants will earn BUILD (Bulldogs United in Learning Drake) credit and be entered into a drawing at the end of the semester.
This free instructor-led course will teach you how to respond to first aid, breathing, and cardiac emergencies. It includes hands-on practice of lifesaving skills and certification for those who successfully complete the course.
The four-hour course is taught over two days. You must attend both sessions. Chris Nickell, director of environmental health and safety, will present. A minimum of four and maximum of 10 participants is required to hold a class. Click both links below to register.
The first Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) lunch of the semester is Friday, March 2, at 12 p.m. in Medbury Hall, Room 201. The lunch discussion is an opportunity 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 the process. While it is too late to register for a lunch, you are welcome to come and bring your own lunch.
Deadlines for students to study abroad this summer are quickly approaching. Students must submit their applications to Drake International by March 1 for all summer study abroad programs. Students can submit their applications online here.
The University Book Club is reading “Arrowood” by Laura McHugh this spring, an eerie tale set in Keokuk, Iowa. The book is available for checkout at Cowles Library.
The club will meet Tuesday, April 3, at 4:45 p.m. at Smokey Row to discuss the book. Faculty and staff are invited to join.
Contact ascspecialevents@drake.edu if you are interested in participating in the discussion, to receive future book club information directly to your email, or if you have any questions.
In addition, the book club is accepting book selection ideas for the next fiscal year. Please send book suggestions to ascspecialevents@drake.edu.
Previous selections include:
“The Kind Worth Killing” by Peter Swanson
“Thirteen Ways of Looking” by Colum McCann
“The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown
“The Nest” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
“Hidden Figures” by Margo Lee Shetterly
“Bottomland” by Michelle Hoover
“Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari
“The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn
“Arrowood” by Laura McHugh (current selection)
“Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand (upcoming summer selection)
Join ITS staff for the next session of Tech Tuesday on March 6 from 2 to 2:50 p.m. in the Dial Center Large Conference Room.
The session will focus on keeping your identity safe six months after the Equifax breach. Led by Peter Lundstedt, director, information security and compliance.
Sign up for the March 6 session and other upcoming sessions.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Madelyn M. Levitt Distinguished Community Service Award and the Madelyn M. Levitt Employee Excellence Award. Nominations are due to Human Resources by Friday, March 30, at 4:30 p.m. Late nominations will not be accepted.
Madelyn M. Levitt Distinguished Community Service Award
Madelyn M. Levitt established the Distinguished Community Service Award to recognize the outstanding contributions of Drake faculty and staff. Recipients are chosen on the following criteria:
A demonstrated personal commitment to volunteerism and community service
An outstanding record of leadership or substantial involvement in community projects, services and activities contributing to the quality of life in our region, state and/or the nation
Professional and personal values and behavior that typify the ideals of “giving back to others” and “making a difference in the lives of others”
The nominee must be a current faculty or staff member with at least five years of service at Drake.
Madelyn M. Levitt Employee Excellence Award
The Employee Excellence Award is presented to a staff member who demonstrates exceptional commitment to excellence in the performance of their duties. Criteria for the award include:
Exceptional performance as an employee of Drake University
Outstanding dedication to providing courteous, prompt, and quality service
Demonstrated commitment to University programs, initiatives, and services
Professional values and behavior that demonstrate exceptional service to others and a commitment to Drake University
The nominee must be a current staff member with at least one year of service at Drake.
To nominate a colleague, submit a letter of nomination to the Levitt Award Committee, care of (c/o) Human Resources. Nomination letters may be sent through campus mail or electronically to drakehr@drake.edu.
A nomination letter detailing specific examples of how the nominee exemplifies each of the applicable criteria is desirable. Additional letters of support are not necessary. A review committee will make award recommendations to the President’s Council.
Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman, recipient of the Myron Marty Lectureship
The 2018 Myron Marty Lectureship in the Arts + Humanities is Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater; a reception will follow.
The Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman is the recipient of the Myron Marty Lectureship for 2018 and will present, “Uncomposed Artfulness: A Black Womanist Theological Aesthetic.”
This lecture will explore the similitude between the aesthetic resistances of black church women and black feminist contemporary protest forms, with the goal of disrupting the false binary of the sacred and the secular that dares to limit divine activity to an either/or hierarchy.
An examination of black women’s ecclesial performance of “descent and recovery” as resistance and cathartic response to afro-misogynistic regulative practices in the church will be placed in conversation with the protest posture of “dying-in” that responds to anti-black state sanctioned regulative practices. The lecture will conclude with preliminary remarks on the work of the spirit (pneuma/axé) in black movement [dance] and protest, and point to the ethico-pneumatological implications of uncomposed artfulness in black church and society.
Dr. Turman is assistant professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. A first-career concert dancer and ordained National Baptist preacher, Dr. Turman holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and Christian ethics from Fordham University-Lincoln Center and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She is the author of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon.
The Myron Marty Lectureship in the Arts + Humanities honors Myron “Mike” Marty, Drake’s dean of liberal arts from 1984 to 1986 who oversaw the integration of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Fine Arts, continuing to serve as dean of the newly formed College of Arts and Sciences until 1994. The lectureship is made possible by a gift from the Ralph and Sylvia G. Green Charitable Foundation in honor of Marty’s dedication to arts and humanities scholarship and programming at the University.
Join The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement for the inaugural Harkin on Wellness Symposium on March 21 in Parents Hall, Olmsted Center. This year, we are welcoming a host of health care experts for a discussion on preventive care and policy.
Learn about the latest trends in preventive care and population health and discuss how they can influence health policy, clinical, and community care. Topics to be covered include:
Chronic disease prevention and interventions in preventive health
The value of exercise as medicine, food as medicine, and meditation
Innovative community health and wellness initiatives
Educating future health professionals
Renowned Doctor Andrew Weil, founder and program director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, will deliver the keynote speech.
This is a free public event and includes lunch and a networking reception. Spots are going quickly. Register and learn more here.
—Emily Schettler,Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement
