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Two vastly different experiences with hospitals and health care led mother and daughter to pursue nursing.

Students see patients who are hospitals most frequent users in the university's "hotspotting" program.

When Samuel Merritt University (SMU) student Juan Ceja Solorio leaves for the U.S.-Mexican border today to help prepare for a medical service trip, his experience with his own family will not be far from his mind.

Alice Vestergaard, a community health instructor in the SON, won the 2019 Dr. Cornelius Hopper Diversity Excellence Award for developing a community nurse corps that works to help residents in impoverished areas.

Tina Sacks' research demonstrates the persistence of racial and gender discrimination when black women seek medical treatment in America's predominately white health care system.

Should where you live determine how long you live? Research suggests it does, says Sandra Witt, DrPH, Samuel Merritt University’s 29th annual Picchi Memorial Lecturer.

Nursing case management students create "farmers market" and talk about nutrition and health eating with middle schoolers.

SMU Student Affairs recognized as diverse workplace by "Diverse: Issues in Higher Education" magazine

"Fire and Freedom" demonstrates how America’s first president relied on the skills and labor of slaves for much of his wealth

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.