DMU Associate Professor Joins AACOM NAOME Fellow
Maria Barnes, Ph.D., joins AACOM NAOME Fellowship, making her the seventh DMU faculty member to earn the recognition.
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Cooking something good (for you) in the wellness kitchen
On a typical Thursday evening, the DMU Wellness Center kitchen hums with activity and radiates delicious aromas. It sounds like a dinner party among friends, which in a way it is, but the main purpose of “Nutritional Survival 101” is
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Nutrition the focus of October 25 Friday Research Seminar Series
James Hollis, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Sustainable Food Processing Alliance at Iowa State University, presented at the October 25 Friday Research Seminar Series on the topic, “Does how you eat influence appetite and body weight regulation?” Hollis’s presentation described
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Is McDonald’s the cure for obesity?
When the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates met in Chicago mid-June, members approved a measure to label obesity a disease. Pointing to “an overabundance of clinical evidence to identify obesity as a multi-metabolic and hormonal disease state,” the policymaking
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“Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”
I’m not squeamish, but I’m not beating down any doors to join our students in the anatomy lab, either. That’s why I was so surprised, delighted and enlightened when I read Mary Roach’s 2004 book, Stiff: the Curious Lives of
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Three DMU researchers awarded an Iowa Science Foundation grant
Three Des Moines University researchers have received a $5,000 grant from the Iowa Science Foundation, the foundation arm of the Iowa Academy of Science. Marie Nguyen, Ph.D., Martin Schmidt, Ph.D., and Muhammad Spocter, Ph.D. all submitted proposals and were fully
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