Silver and gold, respectively, commemorate 25-year and 50-year anniversaries. That’s a great model for DMU’s new reunion tradition: In May, reunion and commencement activities will be united in a special weekend celebration, with milestone 25- and 50-year alumni adorned in silver and gold.
DMU launches new reunion tradition Read More
Whether they were garbed in golf togs or formally dressed for dinner, hundreds of alumni and friends turned out in recent months to support scholarships for DMU students.
Golfers, Glanton supporters invest in students Read More
His patients and colleagues sing the praises of DMU graduate Robert Birk, but he says he’s simply doing what he wants – being a small-town care provider in the county where he grew up.
DMU alumnus named Wisconsin PA of the Year Read More
Stretching his horizons physically, professionally and personally was what physical therapist Gio Villanueva was seeking when he moved to Alaska. There he discovered the environment presents as many challenges as do his patients’ conditions.
Leaping into life on the nation’s last frontier Read More
Of modern medicine’s many triumphs, the fact we’re living longer may be the greatest achievement – and one that presents great challenges in enabling seniors to live happily and independently. Members of the DMU community have embraced efforts to find new answers to the “old” problem of our impending “silver tsunami.”
Building an Age-Friendly World Read More
The crisis of world hunger likely has endangered humans since they came to exist. But the problem is about to get much worse, and not just for third-world dwellers with distended bellies and protruding ribs. “Nearly one billion people are
Global health conference explores ecosphere, hunger Read More
As a Peace Corps volunteer, Luke Wenzel made some babies cry; learned to speak Portuguese; met and married his wife; and decided on a career in family practice. He also worked to educate the locals on avoiding cholera and preventing or managing HIV/AIDS.
Mozambique piques student’s passion for global and rural health Read More
The team DMU is assembling for a health service trip to the Central American nation of Honduras March 16-24 will wear multiple hats. To date, the group includes students from all three DMU colleges and five of its nine programs;
DMU to send interprofessional team to Honduras Read More
Daniel Cole was a memorable medical school interviewee: Within one week’s time, he was in Panama as a Peace Corps volunteer, then on DMU’s campus as an osteopathic medical student candidate and then back in a remote village in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé.
Building latrines and relationships abroad Read More
In the master of health care administration program’s first on-campus executive residency, students gained insights on personality and communication styles, practiced their interprofessional skills and discovered their faculty are not “Dr. Drone-on.”
MHA students embrace inaugural executive residency Read More