AU Today

Aurora University celebrated the inauguration of Susana Rivera-Mills, PhD, as the institution’s 14th president on Friday, September 29, with a ceremony on the Aurora campus attended by students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and community leaders. In her inaugural address, Rivera-Mills...

Aurora University welcomed 818 new first-year students this fall, a 22% increase from a year ago and the largest incoming class to set foot on the AU campus. In addition, 348 new transfer students joined the Spartan family, bringing the enrollment of new undergraduates in Aurora for the...

“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s” runs Oct. 2 through Dec. 15.

The world is losing its tropical coral reefs, imperiling natural fisheries and the ecology of the oceans, and Zachary Ferris ’21 is wading into the middle of the issue. Ferris was recruited to Aurora University to play lacrosse, but it was a science field trip to the Bahamas that allowed...

Pre-occupational therapy is a mouthful. But it’s actually a pretty easy-to-explain pathway to becoming an occupational therapist. First, let’s talk about what it means to be an occupational therapist.  What is occupational therapy? Occupational therapy is a kind of rehabilitation...