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Tery’ance Horace sits at a table with textbooks in front of him talking to a woman in front of a VETS Military Connected Student Center sign.

Air Force veteran finds new home with MEPN program

Tery’ance Horace traded wings for scrubs and a fresh career at the U of A College of Nursing

A mole on a person's skin is surrounding by a handwritten circle and numbers in purple ink.

U of A researchers awarded federal grant to explore topical immunoprevention for skin cancer

A nursing instructor stands next to a manikin and points out parts of its body as she instructs five students. All the students and the instructor are wearing white lab coats.

Shaping tomorrow’s nurses: New DNP specialty trains the educators and leaders health care needs most

A pregnant woman, whose belly is showing, holds two plates of food in her outstretched hands. On one plate is a salad. On the other plate are a couple of large doughnuts.

NIH grant will help probe ‘nutritional memory’ to increase understanding of food choices

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Diyana Ahmad, a second-year student at the Coit College of Pharmacy, holds a prescription bottle and discusses the medication with a male older adult patient.

Building bonds for better older adult health care

The Untangled Shadows art installation as seen from above.

Art engages more than just minds in Health Sciences

When an astrocyte’s mitochondria (magenta) are impaired, they are unable to break down lipid waste (cyan), and the buildup of extra fat (white spots) might be accelerating the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Brain’s self-cleaning machinery may be key to Alzheimer’s

A powerful voice for her students

Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction researchers say reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III substance would loosen the restraints on research into possible benefits, as well as any potential negative side effects, of medical marijuana.

Should cannabis still be a Schedule I drug?

John Galgiani, MD

Paving a path for Valley fever research, treatment, prevention

Edgar A. Villavicencio does a FibroScan test on a Nosotros Comprometidos a Su Salud (Committed to Your Health) study participant.

Unsung heroes make Health Sciences labs work

A recent upswing in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. increased conversations about the newest COVID-19 vaccine, which targets the XBB variant.

Insights: Vaccines, variants and COVID-19 trends

(Left) Purnima Madhivanan, PhD, MBBS, MPH, an associate professor of health promotion in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, meets with two of her mentees, (center) Kiranmayee Muralidhar, MMBS, MPH, and Namoonga Mantina, both doctoral students, to discuss progress on their research manuscripts. Madhivanan is currently mentoring about 35 people.

Reluctant doctor finds her passion helping women, children

Researchers are examining the role of a hormone called prolactin in the pain of endometriosis and how endometriosis might predispose women to other pain conditions.

Researchers hope to help women with endometriosis pain

New HSIB art installation challenges viewers’ perceptions

Competitive and curious from a young age, Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, is driven to understand what triggers migraine headaches and how researchers can develop more effective therapies for people, including herself, who live with the neurological disease.

On a personal journey to solve the migraine puzzle