RIDE IN STYLE WITH your DMU plates! You can order Des Moines University license plates from the Iowa Department of Transportation. Plates, including personalized, may also be purchased as a gift. Gift certificates will be mailed to the purchaser. For
DMU license plates available in Iowa Read More
Did you know you had a “goose foot” on the inner side of your knees? Those imaginative, ancient anatomists envisioned that the three muscles that come together on the medial surface of the knee looked like the three-toed foot of
Anatomy word of the month: Pes anserinus Read More
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
A prescription for driving women crazy Read More
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
A tasty kind of “apocalypse” Read More
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
Mentored student research program Read More
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
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
A silent killer in your home Read More
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.
Free school physicals, health services for K-12 students at annual health fair Read More