Health & Medicine.

When a group of undertakers got together 100 years ago and proposed that the University of Minnesota establish a mortuary science program, they breathed life into the first and one of the best such programs in the nation. Above, mortuary science instructor and alum Jody LaCourt teaches students in her Restorative Arts class. Read more >

The health professions take center stage at the University of Minnesota’s Academic Health Center (AHC), where students learn from some of the world’s top health scientists and practitioners. AHC researchers are known for many firsts, from open-heart surgery and cardiovascular devices to stem cell therapy, the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, and pioneering AIDS drugs. Patients at the University’s clinics received care from the best in each specialty.

 

A eye test chart.

The best in sight

Somebody can watch a basketball game and not see a girl with an umbrella walk right through the action? Believe it. The surprising abilities and quirks of our visual system are coming more and more to light, thanks to vision researchers from the Department of Psychology.