D E A N ’ S L E T T ER
UND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & HEALTH SCIENCES DEAN DR. JOSHUA WYNNE speaks at the students-and-faculty-only 2021 MD Commencement Ceremony at UND’s Chester Fritz Auditorium.
LOOKING BACK... AND FORWARD 4
As this extraordinary academic year comes to a close with
Dakota through a variety of service programs—despite the
the recent graduation of the Class of 2021 cohort of medical
worst pandemic in more than a century. Although the state
and health sciences students, and as we look forward to the
went through some tough times during the pandemic, the
incoming first-year students this summer and fall, it might be
trajectory now is far improved, thanks in no small measure
useful to look back—and forward. For the past 15 months,
to the effective vaccination program that is in place. But the
the School’s activities continued—we educated students, did
School would not have been able to keep up its educational,
research and scholarship, and served the people of North
discovery, and service missions as well as it did without the
North Dakota Medicine Summer 2021
