Nicole Baganz, Ph.D. ’09, was always interested in science, receiving her first microscope in second grade. It’s just that she wasn’t always that good at it, she said. That’s all changed now.
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Over four decades, the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory has been a part of countless research projects—in a range of disciplines—conducted at the university.
In ancient times, medical advances were made through a mixture of trial and error. Today’s trials are a far cry from the methods of discovery made by early civilizations.
As a trauma and critical care Army nurse, Kimberly Smith served around the world, caring for the most critical of patients in the most dire of circumstances. After nearly three decades, she’s serving in a new capacity: change agent.
One in five children has a mental illness, yet often they go untreated as communities and families battle the stigma.
The same desire to serve as a U.S. Army Special Forces medic pulled Roland Paquette ’12, back into health care as a physician assistant.
Professor and president team up to fund cardiovascular disease endowment.
They treated victims of abuse, and people who had lost everything after some unforeseen, devastating crisis. They treated prostitutes and drug users who measure time by the number of days since their last fix. They treated people living on the streets who used every last cent they had on a meal, not a toothbrush. They […]
It started with a simple question: Why can’t kids with disabilities play sports? In 2001, Tracey Fontenot and Kacey Wernli, physical therapists working at a local San Antonio hospital, wondered how they could get their young patients with physical and developmental disabilities to be active past their therapy sessions. What if they formed a baseball […]
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. There is no cure. By 2025, the number of Americans age 65 and older with Alzheimer’s is projected to grow by 40 percent. Texas is expected to see an increase of nearly 50 percent in that same time. “One in nine of us over […]