Cole Wesselman, D.O.’23, M.H.A.’23, completed an eight-week virtual internship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during July and August 2021. He was selected to participate in this internship as part of the Department of Global Health’s Distinguished […]
DMU student works to foster public understanding of aspects of climate change Read More
If you can’t find something you’ve dropped on the floor – say, the back of an earring or a thumbtack – Rachel Dunn, Ph.D., is your go-to person. Years of scouting for fossils have given her eagle eyes in spotting
Associate prof stalks clues about mammalian evolution Read More
Des Moines University Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) students, Calvin Fung (D.O.’22), Mathew Rusling (D.O.’21), Charles Love (D.O.’24), Anisha Karim (D.O.’24), Christian Bongiorno (D.O.’24), and faculty mentor, Lillian Yuan, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, have published “Automation of QIIME2 Metagenomic Analysis Platform,” in the journal Current Protocols. QIIME is a
DO students published: Automation of QIIME2 Metagenomic Analysis Platform Read More
The bottom line of an article by a DMU faculty member and students recently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, “Sex estimation of the subadult ilium prior to acetabular fusion,” is that in in the forensic skeletal analyses of
What not to do in forensic anthropological analyses involving youth Read More
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued through the summer, so did DMU’s Mentored Student Research Program (MSRP). This summer, 36 DMU students and 29 faculty mentors participated, as did a student from Juan N. Corpas University in Bogota, Columbia, and
There’s no stopping research at DMU Read More
To improve the health of the communities they serve, legislators, health care organizations and their community partners need data to implement evidence-based, equitable practices and policies that integrate targeted strategies with community preferences. In the absence of community-based data, invisible
Grant to support further study of LGBTQ+ Iowans’ health Read More
The big brains of whales and dolphins – the largest on the planet – evolved to keep themselves warm in cold oceanic waters, according to research published March 9 in the journal Scientific Reports. “What is really cool about this
Big cetacean brains generate lots of heat Read More
You can hear the excitement in the voice of Jun Dai, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., associate professor of public health at DMU, when she talks about the three-year $488,819 grant she recently was awarded by the National Institutes of Health. A
DMU prof lands NIH grant to compare genetic and environmental factors Read More
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had a worldwide impact on health and life in general isn’t news, but how has it affected sexual assault cases and reports of their occurrence? That is what a team of DMU researchers set to
Pandemic-related shutdown may discourage reporting of sexual assault Read More
They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but the spaces above them can reveal a person’s identification. These holes in the skull can fill the “holes” in a forensic investigation when a dead body is discovered. “The
DMU faculty land NIJ grant to enhance forensic guidelines Read More