One man’s passion carries global implications David Dausey returns to Mercyhurst to establish public health institute David Dausey has been known to turn a flicker into a firestorm and he’s chosen to strike the match right here at Mercyhurst College. Here - on this small, intimate campus where he met his wife playing hacky sack in Garvey Park, earned his undergraduate degree in psychology, developed a passion for knowledge and a desire to teach that even educational experiences at Harvard and Yale couldn’t match, and discovered a sense of community that, to this day, he champions as unprecedented. This fall, Mercyhurst has become more than an alma mater, a charitable contribution, or a Homecoming visit; it has become home to Dausey’s dream: the new Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health.
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