Sleep experts say many people are experiencing deep vivid, memorable and realistic dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Dreams are our brains' processing and organizing and integrating and making sense of things. We're dumped in this new environment and we're trying to figure out our place in it," said Michael Grandner, director the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Medical students just starting out in the business also have been jumping in. The University of Arizona and several other schools have let their fourth-year medical students apply for early graduation. “They could be a big help, you could unleash up to 200 newly meted physicians to go out on the frontlines and help,” University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins said.

Jonathan M. Holmes, MD, a pediatric eye care and an alignment specialist, has been named the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

The way you lay out your physical environment can reduce stress and create calm, says a University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences ships 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, today.

A network formed to support the University of Arizona Health Sciences Design Program proves invaluable in uniting the state’s makerspaces – collaborative workspaces with a variety of high- and low-technology tools for making, learning, exploring and sharing.

More than 1 million people speak Spanish at home in Arizona, but experts say official coronavirus bilingual communication has lagged. Dr. Cecilia Rosales, a public health expert and the interim associate dean of community engagement at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, leads a team that conducts mobile health screenings for Spanish-speaking communities in the state.

Led by Regents Professor Dr. Marvin J. Slepian, a team from the University of Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Defense for three ventilator prototypes – including one using a basketball – that offer simple, low-cost designs featuring easily acquired materials that could be fabricated rapidly and used for full or partial ventilator support.