Stories

When her dreams speak, Kenna Stephenson listens

Nov. 25, 2024

Dreams propelled the physician and professor to search for her birth mother and to study the dreams of postmenopausal women.

Photo of a young woman with her hand on a lap top who is looking at Caleigh Curley as Curley gestures with her hands.

Guiding the next generation of students on Indigenous policy

Nov. 18, 2024

Trio of Zuckerman College of Public Health mentors work to develop knowledge about Native self-governance.

John Woolf is a collaborator at work and in the music studio

Nov. 12, 2024

College of Health Sciences assistant professor relishes the opportunity to create new Doctor of Physical Therapy program.

A family stands together with the father, son and daughter all in dress military uniforms while the mom is in a red dress.

Nursing’s Reed goes from combat vet to classroom instructor

Nov. 6, 2024

Army veteran, drawing on 14 deployments over 27 years, teaches nurse anesthesia students to prepare for anything.

Photo of Brena Andrews in a gym holding a barbell over her head in split-jerk stance.

Brena Andrews helps grow Pharmacy program outside Arizona

Oct. 28, 2024

Instructional designer pushes weight — and the college’s online master’s program.

Yumi Shirai, PhD, sits at a table with a group of people who are painting at the University of Arizona’s ArtWorks program for adults with developmental disabilities. The table is covered with cups holding brushes and paints.

Yumi Shirai brings together art and health sciences

Oct. 15, 2024

ArtWorks director bridges worlds for adults with developmental disabilities and medical students through collaborative projects.

Lorre Laws, PhD, walks in the desert next to a young woman.

Lorre Laws teaches nursing students peace and resilience

Oct. 7, 2024

Assistant professor overcomes her own near-death trauma to pair healing arts with health sciences.

Dan Combs, MD, assistant professor in pediatrics and sleep medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Medicine, holds his hand up to a young Down syndrome patient for a high five in an office.

Dan Combs helps young Down syndrome patients get good ZZZs

Oct. 1, 2024

Assistant professor focuses on improving sleep as the first step toward a better quality of life for his patients and their families.

Jonathan Lee-Confer assists a student putting an arm sensor on another student.

Preventing falls a deeply personal mission for researcher

Sept. 23, 2024

After seeing the debilitating effects of slips and falls on older adults, Jonathan Lee-Confer’s research focuses on strengthening the arms to lower risks.

Portrait of Ricardo Correa, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix’s Divison of Endocrinology, outside next to a mural.

Ricardo Correa filling the gap for the underserved

Sept. 16, 2024

College of Medicine – Phoenix assistant clinical professor felt called to medicine early to help minorities, the underrepresented and refugees.