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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

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A type of immune cell could hold a key to preventing scar tissue buildup in wounds

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College of Nursing’s INCATS program boosts Indigenous health care

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

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

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A decade of impact: the U of A/Banner academic medicine partnership

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Doctor of Physical Therapy Program kicks off with open house

Rebuilding nature’s blueprint to target cancer

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Leveraging research, industry expertise to speed biomedical breakthroughs

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Teachers step into health science students’ shoes to spark STEM futures

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Alejandro Vazquez lets his lived experience do the teaching

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Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

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Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

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Scientists on a quest to prevent asthma by boosting immune system

Onicio Leal Neto, PhD, MPH, stands at a desk next to a table full of people with laptops open in front of them.

Public Health launches first AI summer program

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Smart sensors and smarter health: How AI and wearables are reimagining preventive health care

Fariba Donovan, MD, PhD, holds a pipette in a gloved hand in a lab at the University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence.

Fariba Donovan works to keep “The Last of Us” in fictional realm