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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 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

Amy Barber squats next to Scout, a yellow Lab, with one hand on the dog’s back.

Making a difference one pet therapy visit at a time

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Graduates of the Tohono O’odham Community College Class of 2024 pose for a photo outside the college on a sunny day.

Partnership gives community college students path to BS in Public Health

Two researchers in white coats stand in a lab.

Top 10 Health Sciences Connect stories of 2024

South Asian man with grey beard stands wearing a black suit, white shirt and red tie. His arms are folded and he is smiling.

Shak Rehman wins international teaching award

University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher Michael Johnson, dressed in a lab coat and wearing purple gloves, turns knobs on a piece of equipment.

$1.9M NIH grant will allow researchers to explore how copper kills bacteria

smiling doctor examines young child, laughing, while mother smiles in background

$3.9M grant seeks to expand primary care and rural tracks for medical student training in Arizona

four people standing for a posed candid at the Sarver Heart Center

Sarver Heart Center receives $2M in gifts toward founding of cardiovascular research institute

A young women in a graduation cap and gown pumps her arms in the air and smiles as a professor puts a ribbon around her neck

Nursing honors over 250 graduates at fall convocation

A doctor examines a patient wearing a pink robe sitting on the edge of a bed

Can the heart heal itself? New study says it can.

A person holds a blue asthma inhaler

U of A Health Sciences researchers receive $3.4M grant to improve asthma care in schools

a doctor holds a model of the female reproductive system

Study links vaginal microbiome differences to higher cervical cancer rates in Native American women

Mother and son in wheelchair looking at screen communication device

Solving real-world problems with design thinking

CAMI Inaugural Executive Director Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson; University of Arizona Health Sciences Senior Vice President Michael D. Dake, MD; Arizona Board of Regents Chair Cecelia Mata; University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella, PhD; City of Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego; and SmithGroup Design Director Mark Kranz, FAIA, stand side by side, holding shovels in dirt.

Cannabis terpenes, CAMI and long COVID: U of A Health Sciences’ top news releases of 2024