AU Today - Academics

Aurora University received $955,000 in federal funding to create an Emerging Technologies Learning Lab that will bring to life new learning experiences for students across all disciplines. The funds, which were secured with the assistance of U.S. Congressman Bill Foster, will be used to purchase...

If you are interested in healthcare — in understanding how the body works and learning about ways to help people who are sick or injured — there are many career paths to consider beyond becoming a doctor.  We need doctors, of course. What would we do without...

In a move to expand the popular Health Science and Psychology programs, AU is introducing Behavioral Neuroscience as an undergraduate major for the 2023-2024 academic year. What is behavioral neuroscience? Behavioral Neuroscience is the study of how behavior is influenced by biological factors,...

Tamara Turner ’12, ’14 MBA has taken her love of cake to new heights—35,000 feet into the stratosphere, to be precise. The founder and CEO of Chicago-based Silver Spoon Desserts began selling her mini gourmet Bundt cakes to American Airlines in 2022. The Fort Worth,...

Aurora University has entered into an agreement with the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford to guarantee a direct path to admission into the Master of Science in Medical Biotechnology program. Medical biotechnology is a branch of medicine that uses cells to research and produce...