News, Dates & Updates »
- Update for Prospective and Incoming Students
- Explore Becoming a Different Kind of Doctor at the ND Open
House
- Join Us for Our All-Programs Open House
- Community Giving Creates Abundant Scholarships
- Bastyr Hosts Great Speakers and Events
Bastyr Shines»
- Alumni Establish Reflexology Paths in Seattle Area
- Hair-Raising Haunted Trails Drew Record Attendance
- Bastyr Expert Advice Highlighted in Weekly Newspaper
Column
Program Highlights »
- ND Students Travel to Russia to Learn Medicinal Spa
Treatments
- AOM Students Enhance Clinical Skills in China
- Faculty Alumna Speaks at First National HerbDay
News, Dates & Updates
Update for Prospective and Incoming Students
Our fall recruiting season is wrapping up, and our representatives
enjoyed visiting with prospective students at 248 locations
throughout the country this year. If you didn't have a chance to
come out and see us, you can always talk with an admissions advisor
over the phone or visit us on campus in order to finalize your
educational plans. Speaking of planning, if you'd like to attend
Bastyr starting in 2007, our application deadlines are February 1
for the naturopathic medicine program and March 15 for all other
programs. Please contact the Office of Admissions with any
questions you may have or
visit our website.
Explore Becoming a Different Kind of Doctor at the ND Open
House
Discover a profession where compassion and communication merge with
science and nature. Become a naturopathic doctor (ND). Start by
attending Bastyr University’s Naturopathic Medicine Open
House on Friday, January 26 (clinic tour) and Saturday, January 27
(on-campus session). The open house is a great opportunity to learn
more about the naturopathic medicine profession, meet faculty and
students, visit the teaching clinic and ask questions. You will
also have a chance to join current students for dinner Saturday
evening at a popular family style Italian restaurant.
Find out more about the ND Open House.
Join Us for Our All-Programs Open House
Interested in Bastyr’s programs, but just need a bit more
information? Don’t miss a great opportunity at our All
Programs Open House, which will be held on Saturday, February 17,
2007. You can talk to admissions representatives, meet students and
faculty, take a campus tour and attend informational sessions. Stay
tuned for more details about this event or call (425) 602-3330.
Community
Giving Creates Abundant Scholarships
We know that funding your education is an important issue, and we
are proud to say that financial aid opportunities continue to grow
at Bastyr. For instance, this year, students who took the
biochemistry tutorial class for board exams answered a challenge by
the professor to donate their fee to the student scholarship fund,
resulting in a total of $2,170 for student scholarships.
Additionally, over the past year, 60 percent of Bastyr staff and
faculty raised $20,787 for 18 student scholarships. In the words of
one undergraduate scholarship recipient: "What a beautiful way to
say, 'We as a community of faculty and staff recognize what you're
doing and we're cheering you on.'" Bastyr has also made use of its
"School as Lender" program to award a half-million dollars to our
incoming graduate and undergraduate students.
Bastyr Hosts
Great Speakers and Events
At Bastyr, you don’t have to look very hard to find enticing
on-campus events. Recently we hosted some notable speakers,
including
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD,
an esteemed scientist and pioneer in the use of imagery in healing.
We also hosted David Crow, author of
In Search of the Medicine Buddha.
Bastyr alumnus Patrick Donovan, ND, also gave a talk about his new
book,
The Face of Consciousness.
Still to come in December, we will hold our seventh annual holiday
Celtic concert,
and later the same week you can also attend a
FREE holiday concert.
For more Bastyr events open to the pubic, visit our
events page.
Bastyr Shines
Alumni Establish Reflexology Paths in Seattle Area
Two graduates of our acupuncture and Oriental medicine (AOM)
program have become local authorities on foot reflexology, while
spearheading the creation of three reflexology paths in local
parks. Elizabeth Marazita, MS ('03), DAOM ('07), and Michael Spano,
MS ('03), DAOM ('08), started out by leading the construction of
Bastyr University’s reflexology path with a group of
volunteers in 2005. This year, they established two more
reflexology paths in King County parks, which you can read more
about in a recent edition of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Read the story.
Bastyr's Hair-Raising Haunted Trails Drew Record
Attendance
Our annual student fundraiser, Haunted Trails, drew record-breaking
crowds this year. During two weekends in October, nearly 4,000
people from the local community took a spine-tingling tour through
the haunted forest, raising a total of about $30,000 to fund
student studies abroad. Those who braved the forest said the
experience was fun, scary and frighteningly
well-organized! Be sure to join in on the fun next year!
Bastyr Expert Advice Highlighted in Weekly Newspaper
Column
These days, you can receive health advice from Bastyr’s
faculty members without enrolling in a class or making an
appointment. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now
featuring a weekly "Alternative Medicine" column in the Life and
Arts section, covering topics from tips for good digestion to the
power of antioxidants to an overview of tofu’s health
benefits.
Read the latest health tips.
Program Highlights
ND Students
Travel to Russia to Learn Medicinal Spa Treatments
Medicinal spa treatments are becoming popular therapies in the
West. However, in Russia, Turkey and the Czech Republic, medicinal
spa therapies (the study of which is called
“balneology”) have been honed to a fine science and are
commonly practiced -- with widely reported health benefits. To
learn more about how these therapies are administered in Eurasia,
naturopathic medicine students at Bastyr traveled to Russia this
year, led by the chair of the physical medicine department, Dr.
Dean Neary.
Find out more about spa therapies
and this overseas training opportunity for ND students.
AOM
Students Enhance Clinical Skills in China
As part of their hands-on training, third- and fourth-year Bastyr
AOM students have the option to study in China and receive school
credit for it. This overseas training program provides an
invaluable opportunity to shadow and assist doctors at Shanghai
University of Traditional Chinese Medicine or Chengdu University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine. Both schools are top traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM) universities in China and have foreign
language departments equipped to train TCM students from all over
the world.
Find out more
about clinical training opportunities for AOM students.
Faculty
Alumna Speaks at First National HerbDay
Bastyr’s own Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG), and chair of the
Botanical Medicine Department, was a featured speaker at the first
national HerbDay, which Bastyr was proud to co-present. HerbDay
week was filled with events in more than half of the states in
North America, including a large event at the United States Botanic
Garden in Washington, D.C., on October 14. HerbDay events are
intended to raise public awareness about the significance of herbs
in our lives and their many safe and creative uses. At home, Bastyr
offered two weeks of free talks about the many wonders and healing
properties of herbs.
Find out more about HerbDay.
Online Resources
Find a
Bastyr Practitioner
Seeking a natural health care
provider in your area?
Find a practitioner
by searching on Bastyr's website. Just enter your city and
state!
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Why Choose Bastyr?
"The experience in China was irreplaceable. I felt very fortunate
to have studied with doctors in a specialized field, some of whom
have been practicing for 30 years and were instructors for Bastyr's
own faculty members."
- Kyo Mitchell, DAOM, LAc, clinical faculty member and
former resident who now
leads trips to China
How Can
Bastyr Admissions
Help You?
Admissions Advising
(e-mail, phone or in-person)
Program information
Transcript evaluations
Prerequisite advising
Application review
General financial aid information
Peer Advising
(consulting current students about Bastyr)
Tours of Campus
and Clinic*
Arranging Free
Appointment
at Teaching Clinic**
On Campus Events:
Two annual open houses
ND: Jan 26-27
All Programs: Feb 17
Bastyr Experience
(Student-for-a-day
program for ND prospects)
TBD
Evening at Bastyr
(Evening info sessions
for all programs)
TBD
*Clinic tours available to ND
and AOM applicants only.
**Free appointment
available to ND/AOM
applicants and Bastyr
Experience attendees only.
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