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Hands-On Research Sets EMU Biomedicine Program Apart
April 17th, 2013Finding a master’s program that gave him the best possibility to get into medical school and specialize as a neurologist or pediatrician led Ghassan Mohsin from the shores of Lake Erie to the mountains of Virginia. Mohsin, a 2012 graduate of the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, is a current Eastern …More
EMU’s Cadaver Dissection Gives Pre-Med Students Big Advantage
November 12th, 2012After some preliminary classroom lectures and PowerPoints, it was time for Jason Hostetter ’07 and a handful of other upper-level EMU biology students to get down to business in a laboratory in the bottom floor of the science center. Studying human anatomy with colorful charts is one thing. Using a scalpel and an actual, recently …More
Succumbing to EMU’s Magnetism, Once, Twice, Thrice
October 25th, 2012If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her …More
Alum Retraces His Life’s Path To Harvard Medical Dean
October 19th, 2011Courtesy Daily News Record HARRISONBURG — Joseph Martin, a native of Canada and Eastern Mennonite University graduate, credits a firm foundation in reality, tempered with plenty of humor, as the cornerstone of his tenure as head of one the nation’s most prestigious medical schools. Martin shared nearly 50 years of medical school wit and wisdom …More
Aspiring Doctors Boosted by New MA in Biomedicine
October 7th, 2011Building on the stellar reputation of its undergraduate pre-medical program and Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) global emphasis, EMU will offer an MA in biomedicine beginning fall 2012. The program will prepare people from a variety of backgrounds for further graduate-level training in health-related fields. Upper-level courses in topics such as cross-cultural health care/biomedicine, will appeal …More