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$1.9M grant will help protect newborns from deadly condition

Thursday

A University of Arizona College of Nursing-led research team will use a $1.9 million Department of Health and Human Services grant to lead a nationwide effort to keep babies safe from the deadly threat of necrotizing enterocolitis, known as NEC.

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Lorre Laws teaches nursing students peace and resilience

Monday

Assistant professor overcomes her own near-death trauma to pair healing arts with health sciences. Lorre Laws, PhD, RN, is on a mission. It’s one so compelling that she switched careers and has spent, by her own accounting, six years and six figures of her time and money to pursue it.

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Research Leadership Institute participants now research partners

Sept. 25, 2024

Two 2023-2024 Research Leadership Institute (RLI) cohort members are combining their diverse expertise and perspectives in a new research collaboration focusing on strokes.

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BSN Nursing program ranks #19 in national Best Colleges in U.S. News & World Report

Sept. 24, 2024

The College of Nursing jumped significantly in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 list of the Best Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs.

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Bouchard accepted into academic nursing leadership program

Sept. 23, 2024

Lindsay Bouchard, DNP, PMHNP-BC, RN, has been accepted into the Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing program offered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

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Nursing’s Lisa Kiser is national nurse practitioner Fellow

Sept. 17, 2024

The fellowship program is dedicated to the global advancement of nurse practitioners and the high-quality health care they deliver.

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Grant helps fill critical need in Arizona by training nurses to help survivors of sexual assault

Sept. 17, 2024

Two Assistant Clinical Professors at the College of Nursing received a $1,482,169 Advanced Nurse Education‐Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program grant to expand sexual assault response services in rural areas of Region 9 (Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii, and the US Affiliated Pacific Islands) over three years.

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

Sept. 5, 2024

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.

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Integrating AI into research may revolutionize outcomes

Aug. 29, 2024

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

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

Aug. 29, 2024

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.

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