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.

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

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.

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

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.

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