Last week a strange concoction of Google co-founder Sergei Brin’s $330,000, cow muscle stem cells and some hardworking team of scientists from Maastricht University resulted in the world’s first in vitro burger, served up to an eager audience of taste-testers. […]
Could I get lots of ketchup with that? Read More
This is a special greeting to all new and returning students to Des Moines University: Welcome to a new, exciting academic year! At DMU, there is the excitement that comes from sharing and learning in an environment that fosters collaborations,
Welcome to Des Moines University! Read More
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
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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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
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
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
Over a recent (healthy) lunch, my friend Caitlin, a graduate of DMU’s master of public health program, and I had a lively discussion of possible topics for this blog and for DMU Magazine. Ideas ranged from the positive impact of
How fat are you compared to people around the world? Read More
Can you hear that? It’s Jazz in July time again and things are off to a great start. Metro Arts Jazz in July is Central Iowa’s longest-running summer music festival and the only festival to focus exclusively on jazz. This
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