Curiosity is creating an audible buzz among students and faculty engaged in DMU’s increasingly robust research enterprise. This story is part of “Research Engines,” a series on the questions being asked and investigated by DMU researchers. “If we rank the […]
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Interview season begins next month at Des Moines University! The campus community loves meeting our applicants and showing them how great of a place we are! An interview day, however, can be stressful for applicants so the Admissions office is
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This summer, the Simpson College branch of Tech Trek, an experiential summer camp backed by research and designed to make science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) exciting and accessible to girls in middle school, asked DMU to host a morning of STEM-focused activities.
Tech Trek campers get a taste of medical school Read More
Eric Wauson, Ph.D., has been awarded more than $200,000 by the American Heart Association (AHA) to fund his research into autophagy in relation to the heart. Autophagy is a normal process cells use to save themselves from starvation. They feast on their
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The DMU campus was alive and well during this year’s DMU Commencement week festivities. Click the image below each event to view more photos. Events kicked off on Friday, May 22, as our Doctor of Physical Therapy faculty and graduates came together to
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Des Moines University was well represented at the 20th Annual Iowa Physiological Society Meeting held on campus on Saturday, April 25. University researchers presented 10 posters, including two award winners. Briana Gebert-Oberle, M.S.B.S.’18, won second place for “Calmodulin: A New
Biomedical sciences students win awards at Iowa Physiological Society Meeting Read More
Des Moines University will grant degrees to 463 graduates at the University’s 115th Commencement Ceremony, on Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m. at Hy-Vee Hall in the Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines. The dean from each of
463 graduates to cross the stage at DMU’s 115th Commencement Read More
Congratulations to Julie Meachen, Ph.D., for securing the first National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to a Des Moines University faculty member. Dr. Meachen is being awarded $400,000 to support her project in Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave in collaboration with
Julie Meachen, Ph.D., awarded DMU’s first NSF grant Read More
Vanja Duric, Ph.D., faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the College of Medicine was recently awarded a $100,000 Research Starter Grant in Pharmacology/Toxicology from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA). Dr. Duric was awarded
Vanja Duric, Ph.D., Awarded $100,000 Grant Read More
A record 67 researchers presented their work to students, faculty and health care professionals at the 2014 DMU Research Symposium on December 4. Five DMU students and two alums were recognized for outstanding research in the most competitive field in the Symposium’s five
DMU students, alums recognized for research Read More