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![Dentist](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/dentist-800x600.jpeg)
Dental care is crucial to the role of overall health and wellness. How hard is it to become a dentist? And should you become one? It takes eight years of schooling for most people to become a dentist — four years of undergraduate school and another four for dental school. All that...
![Dean's List](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/deans-list.jpg)
Aurora University congratulates the more than 1,600 undergraduate students who earned Dean’s List honors for the spring 2023 semester. The Dean’s List recognizes students who have earned a 3.6 GPA or higher. Students included on the Dean’s List completed a minimum of...
![Meet Tony](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/Tony_800x600.jpg)
“As an athletic training 3+2 student, I’ll be completing the bachelor’s degree coursework in three years and a master’s in two, so the Junior Mentoring Program has been an important tool to ensure I stay on track. Junior Mentoring provided me with a faculty...
![STEM Class](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/au-to-receive-funding-to-expand-stem-education-programs_800x600-2.jpeg)
The National Science Foundation has awarded Aurora University $1.4 million in funds to help address the nationwide shortage of high-quality teachers in science, technology, engineering, and math, particularly among groups underrepresented in STEM fields. “This is our first National...
![Courtney Rickard](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/courtney-rickard_800x600.jpg)
Rickard spent summer 2022 interning for Orange County Coastkeeper, a nonprofit, clean-water organization in Southern California. What did you do? I worked as a marine restoration intern and helped facilitate our “living shorelines” project. We created an eelgrass and oyster...