In February, the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research released its rankings for Colleges of Nursing funded by the NIH in 2022. UArizona Nursing rose in the organization’s rankings to 23 in 2022, up from 27 in 2020, with $3.7M in awards. 

There’s no better way for smokers to ring in the New Year than to stop smoking. Contributing to more than 480,000 deaths annually in the United States, smoking remains a problem nationwide.  More than 8,000 Arizonans die each year from smoking, and thousands more live with a smoking-related illness. 

As part of a multidisciplinary project between the University of Arizona College of Engineering’s Center to Stream Health in Place (C2SHIP) and the UArizona College of Nursing, Associate Nursing Professor Shu Fen Wung , PhD, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN recently traveled to Israel to work with Israeli health care innovators in digital health.

The Breast Cancer Survivors and Partners Online Research Together (SUPORT) project incorporates online contemplative meditation exercises designed to strengthen and sustain compassion while increasing emotional awareness.

University of Arizona College of Nursing Assistant Professor Meghan Skiba has been selected as the recipient of a $50,000 Sensor Seed Grant. As the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Skiba will pilot test an evidenced based mentored gardening intervention for cancer survivors that will be active through June 2023. 

Dr. Julienne Rutherford joined UArizona Nursing as the John and Nell Mitchell Endowed Chair for Pediatric Nursing. Dr. Rutherford will act as a national leader in discovering and disseminating new knowledge in pediatric nursing. She will also build and lead interdisciplinary research teams that will have an impact on the complex care of vulnerable infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant people of all ages.

On July 26, the American Academy of Nursing (Academy) announced that UArizona Nursing Assistant Clinical professor Timian Godfrey, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, was one of 250 inductees who will be recognized for their significant contributions to health and health care at the Academy’s annual Health Policy Conference.

University of Arizona College of Nursing Assistant Professor Meghan Skiba, PhD, MS, MPH, RDN, has been selected as the recipient of a $7,500 2022 Making Action Possible (MAP) Grant from the UArizona Eller College of Management. 

In January 2022, Dr. Janine Hinton, University of Arizona College of Nursing Director, Steele Innovative Learning Center, received a SensorLab Seed Grant to conduct an exploratory study of the capabilities of sensor technology. 

With a passionate interest in holistic mental healthcare, Jennifer Montjoy soon found a dissertation topic that holds great potential for mental health healing: the use of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), specifically in the treatment of unremitting mental health conditions.