Highlights
Dominican's Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Certificate
Some students seek careers that are collateral to their original profession; others make a more radical change - such as moving from law or business into medicine. Dominican University's program for transitioning into the medical field has the resources to serve a diverse student body with widely ranging needs.
What's Fresh? The Christopher Nutrition
Sciences Center
The state-of-the-art nutrition center, named in honor of the founder of The Pampered Chef and her husband, includes a nutrition lab that’s so high-tech you can measure the density and color of a food.
Thinking about Graduate School?
We offer 31 amazing possibilities for graduate study in library science, business, education, social work, and leadership and continuing studies. Come to our information session on Thursday, July 17 at 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
RSVP to Christa B. Raska at (708) 524-6829 or craska@dom.edu. We look forward to meeting you!
The Vibrant Art of Parmer Hall
From expressionist works of the early 1960s to a whimsical painting by Seymour Rosofsky to a colorful mosaic to student artwork, the walls of Parmer Hall are a fascinating cross-section of the University’s art collection.
Amazing Possibilities Capital Campaign
Your response to Amazing Possibilities: The Campaign for Dominican University, our $50 million campaign to provide resources in support of key academic priorities, has been…amazing, but there’s more to be done! Your gift – every gift – matters.
A Great School at a Great Price
Dominican University is one of only two master’s level universities in the State of Illinois to
be named a “great school at a great price” in US News & World Report’s 2008 “America’s Best
Colleges” publication.
The university was also ranked, for the tenth year in a row, in the top tier of Midwest master’s level university.
Dominican in the News
'Bigs' Help Kinds Find Their Way
Reflejos, July 3rd, 2008 (PDF, 92KB)Erika Corona is doing Dominican proud! Corona, a recent Dominican graduate, is serving as an enrollment and match specialist for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America with a focus on recruiting Latinos into the program. Corona received the Outstanding Service Leadership Award, the prestigious Mazzuchelli Award and was named the Distinguished Senior in American Studies and Service Learning in May.
Do Summer Reading Programs Help Disadvantaged Students?
School Library Journal, June 26th, 2008Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science is conducting, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, the second year of a three-year research project studying the effect on elementary school students of summer reading partnerships between schools and libraries.
From Old Limbs to New
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20th, 2008Dominican University came up with a unique way to responsibly recycle wood from trees that had to be taken down during construction of Parmer Hall. It is the ultimate "ashes to ashes" story.
Scouts Restore Dominican's Secret Garden
Pioneer Local, June 18th, 2008A group of River Forest Girl Scouts have been working diligently this spring to restore a secret garden that had fallen under hard times. The garden had been a site for contemplation and barbeques by the university's sisters until the early part of this century--now the Girl Scouts are bringing this "jewel in the middle of the university" back to life.
A Passage to India
Wednesday Journal, June 17th, 2008Wellness Center nurse Chris Pateros-Nowak took a pilgrimage to India this spring to work with volunteers at Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kalighat. The experience forced her out of what might be referred to as her “Western Cultural Box.”
Dominican's Sister Diane Kennedy on FOX
Fox Chicago Sunday, June 6, 2008Sister Diane Kennedy, Dominican University vice president of mission and ministry talks about the Father Michael Pfleger controversy.