On a recent Wednesday evening, a group of individuals gather to sing and move to old-time favorites such as “My Bonnie,” “Home on the Range,” “Ain’t She Sweet” and “Roll Out the Barrel.” This is no ordinary group of steppers, […]
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Thirty-four DMU students spent their spring break week participating in DMU’s Department of Global Health’s service trips March 10-17, 2018. This year the department offered three service trips – groups of students returned to Monte Cristi in the Dominican Republic
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Steve Perry, D.O.’78, credits a serendipitous set of events and connections that paved his path to the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (COMS), now DMU. After he’d earned his undergraduate degree and was applying to “a bunch” of medical
Reunion Reflections: Steve Perry, D.O.’78, recalls a series of fortunate events Read More
More than 240 central Iowa girls in grades 4-7 gathered on the Des Moines University campus March 24 to gain hands-on experiences in topics ranging from anatomy and first aid to surgery, research, nutrition and neuroscience. “The whole premise of
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DMU’s Global Health Pathways of Distinction Internships are highly selective opportunities for students to explore and conduct research on health topics while working with some of the best minds in science, medicine and public health. These internships also allow students
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Kong Neyail, a student at Grand View Christian School, literally felt the impact of smoking by holding a smoker’s lung and comparing it to a nonsmoker’s lung. His classmate, Grant DeMeulenaere, was excited to hold an actual human heart and
Students learned a lot at Live from the Heart Read More
Burt Routman, D.O.’68, FACOFP, says he decided to become a physician many years before he was born. His father, who had escaped a Lithuanian ghetto at age 8, expected his American-born son to become nothing other than a “doctor or
Reunion Reflections: Burt Routman, D.O.’68, FACOFP – “a really good group of joiners” Read More
In 2007, Christine and Gery Sutton were excited about moving from Oklahoma to their hometown of Boone, IA. Gery, D.O., a physician/geriatrician and a 1976 graduate of DMU’s osteopathic medical program, planned to work at the clinic where his father
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Main Street, Wyoming goes exploring in Natural Trap Cave, which is located on the northernmost edge of Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains. It provides a unique combination of landscape characteristics and specimen preservation that makes for a perfect place
Back to the Natural Trap Cave with Wyoming PBS Read More
More than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, a number that could rise as high as 16 million by 2050. One in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. These diseases take a heavy toll on loved
Tackling the terror of dementia Read More