When Nayeli Montano earns her doctorate next year, she will have traveled much farther than the 200 miles between SMU and her home in California’s Central Valley.

They are running a makeshift medical clinic near a garbage dump where families survive by picking through mounds of trash for anything of value.

Smiles, cheers, and camera flashes filled the Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland.

Author Dashka Slater says health care professionals are in a unique position to make connections with people and improve the well-being of all communities.

The center is designed as a hub for all of the University’s professional development resources.

At SMU, student success is about more than grades. It’s about what students do with their education once they leave the classroom.

New learning spaces and other student facilities are opening on the Oakland campus just in time for the fall semester

Samuel Merritt University’s (SMU) community partnerships offer students an opportunity to help people with limited access to healthcare while also sharpening their clinical skills so they will become more confident caregivers.

FACES for the Future Coalition, a nonprofit that connects underserved youth to healthcare, helped put Sonam on the path to Physical Therapy

We were limited to what we could bring across the border: stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, pen lights, thermometers, ophthalmoscopes, limited medications, the knowledge SMU equipped us with, and each other.