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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

A female health worker chats with a seated male patient after administering a vaccine. Both are smiling.

$1.75M CDC grant funds study to boost vaccine acceptance in Arizona’s rural, border communities

group of people pose with shovels at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies

U of A Health Sciences breaks ground on the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies

Portrait of University of Arizona Cancer Center researcher Ghassan Mouneimne, PhD, sitting in front of a chalk board

Clinical study confirms tissue stiffening in breast cancer can drive metastasis

A man views CT images of breasts looking for signs of cancer

Researchers using $3.3M NCI grant to develop more accurate, comfortable breast cancer screening technology

Portrait of Dr. Dedrick Jordan wearing a suit and tie

College of Medicine – Tucson, Banner – University Medicine welcome new chair of neurology

Paramedics move a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance into a hospital.

Do air pollution and extreme temperatures increase 911 emergency calls?

Infant in a hospital crib with oxygen tube in nose

$1.9M grant will help protect newborns from deadly condition

illustration of an electrocardiogram displaying sinus arrhythmia

New therapeutic target for cardiac arrhythmias emerges

A young woman reads a pregnancy test as she sits up in bed wearing pajamas.

Study of infertility, health among women of Mexican heritage funded by $2.2M NIH grant

portrait of College of Medicine Phoenix researcher Inna Gladysheva

NIH supports researcher’s effort to discover better treatments for heart failure

wide angle view of University of Arizona campus

U of A makes major gains in latest US News ranking

portrait of Aaron McGee in a research lab at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix

New research suggests synaptic plasticity is more autonomous than previously thought