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Shu-Fen Wung, 2 Engineering researchers, awarded TRIF grant

The University of Arizona College of Nursing’s Shu-Fen Wung, PhD, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN, a professor and director of Nursing-Engineering Initiatives, received a $120,000 Technology and Research Initiative Fund grant for her Personalized Intelligent Care for Older Adults with Infections project.

Integrating AI into research may revolutionize outcomes

Health Sciences researchers encourage its use, but caution that it takes quality data and human supervision to keep “hallucinations” at bay.

U of A College of Nursing receives $1.6M grant to support Indigenous students

An Indian Health Service grant will help Indigenous nursing students pursue higher education while also building new tribal-academic-practice collaborations to improve the care of Native populations.

Erickson named research chair at nurse-midwife association

Erickson, PhD, CNM, will serve a three-year term as chair for the Division of Research at the American College of Nurse-Midwives. 

DNP/PhD candidate Lisa Grisham awarded March of Dimes graduate nursing scholarship

Lisa Grisham, MSN, NNP, a University of Arizona College of Nursing DNP/PhD candidate, received the Margaret Comerford Freda March of Dimes Graduate Nursing Scholarship Award.

Nursing’s Fox selected for NIH randomized trials institute

Rina Fox, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, has been selected for the National Institutes of Health Summer Institute for Randomized Trials of Behavioral Interventions. Fox is one of 30 fellows selected from about 160 applicants for the highly competitive institute funded by the NIH.

Two Wildcat Nursing alums and one PhD student to be inducted as AAN Fellows

Dawn Goldstein, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, and Tanya R. Sorrell, PhD, PMHNP-BC, MS, RN, FAANP, both alumna of the University of Arizona College of Nursing’s PhD program, along with current PhD student Jerrol B. Wallace, DNP, MSN, CRNA, FAANA, will be inducted into the 2024 American Academy of Nursing class of Fellows of nurse-leaders during the academy’s annual Health Policy Conference in late October in Washington, D.C.

Chen X. Chen, PhD, RN, joins Nursing as Sorensen Endowed Professor

Chen X. Chen, PhD, RN, MBBS, FAAN, will join the University of Arizona College of Nursing as the Sorensen Endowed Professor focused on improving the health, well-being and health care of individuals, families and communities. She begins Aug. 5.

Rainbow receives U of A Distinguished Faculty Award

Congrats to Jessica Rainbow, PhD, RN, on receiving the Mentoring Future Scholars Award as part of the 2024 UArizona Distinguished Faculty Awards! Her dedication to mentoring has empowered future scholars.

Three Wildcat Nursing doctoral students named Jonas Scholars