In coordination with the University of Arizona and College of Medicine – Phoenix, the College of Medicine — Tucson is offering early graduation to the Class of 2020. This option is for qualified students who wish to serve as new physicians to meet the unprecedented health needs that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Arizona Simulation Technology & Education Center (ASTEC) participated in Tucson Airport Authority’s full-scale emergency exercise, simulating wounds on community members so they could roleplay injured airplane passengers.

Faculty-led grassroots efforts are yielding donations of personal protective equipment from basic science laboratories, ASTEC and the College of Nursing.

Doctors at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson offer several strategies to enhance the immune system and reduce the risk of viral infection.

University of Arizona medical students who want to join the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic can ask to graduate early.

Those who qualify can begin serving as early as mid-April.

The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson offers several strategies to enhance the immune system and reduce the risk of viral infection.

The SAFER program team, led by Dr. Kristen Pogreba-Brown in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will initiate investigations of positive COVID-19 cases to mitigate its spread and learn more about the risk factors.

The University of Arizona Cancer Center will receive $1.4 million as a collaborating center with the national network of academic, public health and community partners, working together to reduce the burden of cancer, especially among Hispanic cancer survivors.

Engineering and health sciences researchers are teaming up to address the shortage of personal protective equipment in Tucson health care facilities.