WesternU held five Commencement ceremonies in Pasadena, California May 17-19, 2023, celebrating nearly 1,000 graduates.

Read an article about the first ceremony for COMP and CPM.

Visit Instagram and Facebook to view photos from all five ceremonies.

WesternU concludes its graduation season with COMP-Northwest's Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 26 in Lebanon, Oregon. Read more about the ceremony on the Commencement website.

Check WesternU News later this week for additional Commencement coverage and photo galleries from each ceremony.

WesternU's College of Dental Medicine held its first Research Day Friday, May 5, 2023, providing the opportunity for CDM to share knowledge and showcase the exciting work taking place in the College.

Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, DDS, PhD, Deputy Director of National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, provided the keynote address on “Research Pathways to Oral Health For All.”

Dr. Webster-Cyriaque’s keynote address is available to those with a WesternU login here: https://mediaweb.westernu.edu/Mediasite/Play/f9f1bf3725f9436ca1a7da87707ebc401d.

Click here for a list of student researchers (from CDM and the MSMS and MSBS programs) and their faculty mentors. Groups 1-8 show the faculty mentors who worked with the first-year CDM students in the pilot program.

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WesternU Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences graduate Nikki Le, MSBS '21, gave a poster presentation titled "Role of Hypothalamic PACAP and it’s Cognate PAC1 Receptor in Sex- & Diet-Specific Regulation of Energy Balance via Homeostatic Circuits" at the annual Organization for the Study of Sex Differences conference held May 7-11, 2023 in Calgary, Canada.

For her efforts she was awarded the prestigious Florence Haseltine Award for most outstanding presentation by a young investigator. Le did her thesis research in the lab of COMP Professor Ed Wagner, PhD, where she currently works as a research associate.

This marks the second time in as many years that a member of the Wagner lab has won this prestigious award, reflecting a sustained culture of research excellence over the lifetime of the MSBS program.

Western University of Health Sciences Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students in the College of Health Sciences-Northwest (CHS-Northwest) foster community connection through lending a helping hand in Lebanon, Oregon and surrounding communities. 

The CHS-Northwest DPT program was designed to educate and develop service-oriented leaders who will provide humanistic care in rural, underserved, and/or vulnerable communities of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Since its inception, more than 25 community service outreach opportunities, including the Lebanon Soup Kitchen, Team Dirt, and Grace Center for Adult Services, have been organized by CHS faculty members Tiffany King, PT, DPT, Zipporah Brown, OTD, MS, OTR/L, CNS, DipACLM, and Elaine Wilder, PhD, PT, MACT, C/NDT. 

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Public Affairs and Marketing is holding an open studio portrait day:

9 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, June 6

Please click on the link above and sign up for a timeslot that works for your schedule if you would like a new studio portrait. We will schedule additional portrait days for those who cannot come to the studio on this day.