Jessica Rainbow, PhD, RN, was honored at the U of A Luminaries: Outstanding Faculty Awards ceremony on Oct. 30 at Crowder Hall in the School of Music for her leadership, accomplishments, and contributions to the College of Nursing.

Knee OA is the most common joint disease, affecting over 80% of people aged 55 and older. Research rarely focuses on ethnic differences in pain perception and underlying mechanisms. Lee's project is one of the first to investigate this area, promising to provide valuable insights into ethnic disparities in pain perception and treatment.

The College of Nursing proudly announces that Tarnia Newton has been awarded two grants to address health disparities in Southern Arizona. Through photovoice, a participatory research method blending photography, storytelling, and arts-based initiatives, Newton’s projects focus on amplifying the voices of borderland communities and advancing impactful health solutions.

The SIFS program, initiated by Ashley Lowe, PhD, MSPH, U of A College of Nursing Assistant Professor, and Research Scientist as well as Research Scientist at U of A’s Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, has been instrumental in addressing one of the most pressing health concerns for children — asthma. The program provides Arizona schools with a stock of albuterol sulfate inhalers, a lifesaving rescue medication for students experiencing respiratory distress.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.