Wesley Chow, OTD ’21, took the University’s hands-on learning mission literally earlier this year when he printed 15 larger-than-life plastic finger bones using a 3-D printer. The finger bones were...
Samuel Merritt University has been named the best college in California for getting a job by career research website Zippia. SMU was recognized for its 94.5% employment rate 10 years after graduation...
Watching Alzheimer’s disease take her father and seeing her mother endure dialysis for 10 years and go through a kidney transplant had a profound effect on Aleesha Woodruff, BSN ’21. “Seeing what they...
Professor Sharon Gorman is the creator of the Function in Sitting Test (FIST), one of the world’s foremost exams in measuring a person’s ability to balance while sitting. The test is taught in SMU’s...
Jamilla Churchill, CRNA ’16, is among the mere 2% of African American nurse anesthetists in the U.S. As a founding member of the UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee for the anesthesiology...
After greeting the half-dozen or so seniors who had joined the Zoom exercise class, SMU nursing students queued up Sam Cooke. As the song “Having a Party” faded in, one of the students announced the...
Only a few months after graduating from Samuel Merritt University, Aariona Wysinger, BSN ’19, was working at her dream job as a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital, caring for a patient she’ll never...
Samuel Merritt University is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for early career salary prospects for graduates with a bachelor’s degree, as reported by Forbes. SMU placed atop the rankings, ahead of MIT and...
In five years, what will Samuel Merritt University look like? What type of student will it educate? What communities will it serve? And how can the 112-year-old institution cultivate a culture of...
In the second of three Q&As with SMU alumnae who received the 2021 Create & Cultivate (C&C) 100 Award, Ana Armenta, CRNA ’16, discusses her journey from Honduras to Louisiana to California and how she...