Wordless Wednesday: at the ready
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A prescription for driving women crazy
Have you read author and women’s rights advocate Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”? If not, I encourage you to do so, and then check out the DMU Library’s latest exhibit, “The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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A tasty kind of “apocalypse”
If the world were to end on a Wednesday, I know where I’d be the day before: at Tacopocalypse Taco Tuesday at Cumming Tap! Cumming Tap is located right off one of my favorite Des Moines bike trails, the Great
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Mentored student research program
Since May, many students have been busy in laboratories around campus working with faculty members to learn research techniques and data collecting skills they can showcase in the Mentored Student Research Closing Program. The students can choose to present either
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Get a jumpstart
It’s the end of July already and school start dates are right around the corner. Take some time this weekend to cross off one of the things on your long to-do list: school physicals. Des Moines University, the Polk County
A silent killer in your home
Does your state cause cancer? Iowa might. One hundred percent of Iowa’s 99 counties are ranked “Zone 1” or highest risk by the EPA, meaning that these counties have a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than four pCi/L
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Free school physicals, health services for K-12 students at annual health fair
Des Moines University, the Polk County Health Department and other local agencies are partnering to provide free school physicals and a variety of other health services on Saturday, July 27, at East High School, 815 East 13th Street, Des Moines.
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Kari Smith becomes first Iowa physical therapist board certified in biofeedback
Kari Smith, D.P.T., ATC, BCB-PMD, received board certification in pelvic muscle dysfunction biofeedback by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA). She becomes the only physical therapist in Iowa certified as a provider of biofeedback services. Smith is an assistant professor
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Did you know?
Fun facts about DMU’s Student Education Center (SEC): The tunnel connecting the SEC with Ryan Hall is designed to support the weight of an 80,000-pound fire truck. The mall‘s oval paving and fog feature was inspired by an illustration of