Get ready to enjoy an enlightening, educational and enjoyable afternoon of exploring a wide range of scientific topics at the virtual DMU Research Symposium on Thursday, Dec. 2, beginning at noon. Now in its 12th year, the symposium will feature
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As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Raina Gerritts combined majors in neurobiology and gender/women’s studies. That’s why research by Noah Marcus, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology at Des Moines University, piqued her interest: Now a second-year
DMU student explores gender’s role in chronic kidney disease Read More
Alexandra Arnold, D.P.M.’24, M.P.H., M.S., completed an eight-week virtual internship with the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) during June and July 2021. She was selected to participate in this internship as part of the Department of Global Health’s
Student contributes to national climate assessment Read More
Clarissa Dahm, D.O.’24, completed an eight-week virtual internship with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) during May-July 2021. She was selected to participate in this internship as part of the DMU Department of Global Health’s Distinguished Global Health Internships program.
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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
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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
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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
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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
