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	UArizona Health Sciences ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ Webinars Offer Community Connection during Social Distancing The free, interactive 30-minute lunchtime webinars feature University of Arizona Health Sciences-affiliated faculty and staff members as presenters and provide information and tools to help support individuals as they navigate the new reality of Arizona’s stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	Thirty New Phoenix Physicians Graduate Early to Battle COVID-19 Young doctors-in-training at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix choose to forgo traditional commencement ceremony to help the health care community with the pandemic.
	UArizona Makers Race to Provide Personal Protective Equipment With 3D printers among their tools, creators across University of Arizona campus are designing and manufacturing solutions for local hospitals short on equipment like masks, face shields and more.
	UArizona Partners to Form Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union to Track Coronavirus Genomic sequencing will track the new coronavirus, provide critical data for global biomedical researchers and give Arizona an edge in responding to the pandemic.
	UArizona Medical Students Rally to Help Tucson’s Homeless Amid Pandemic Concerned about how the pandemic will impact the homeless population, University of Arizona Health Sciences students are screening Tucson’s homeless for symptoms of COVID-19.
	UArizona Nursing Volunteers Create Guide for Homemade Face Masks to Address Shortage in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Community-minded University of Arizona faculty and staff members are aiding an effort to address the face mask shortage that has challenged health care workers across the country because of high demand for personal protective equipment.
	Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Jonathan Holmes Appointed UArizona Chair of Ophthalmology Jonathan M. Holmes, MD, a pediatric eye care and an alignment specialist, has been named the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
	UArizona Health Sciences Connects Arizona’s Makerspaces in COVID-19 Response A network formed to support the University of Arizona Health Sciences Design Program proves invaluable in uniting the state’s makerspaces – collaborative workspaces with a variety of high- and low-technology tools for making, learning, exploring and sharing.
	UArizona Health Sciences Ships COVID-19 Collection Kits to Navajo Nation The University of Arizona Health Sciences ships 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, today.
	UArizona Nursing Professor Suggests Using Guided Imagery to Deal with Stress and Social Isolation In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Judith Gordon suggests using guided imagery for dealing with the potential negative health effects of social isolation.
	UArizona Regents Professor Submits Designs to DOD for Three Low-Cost Ventilator Prototypes – One Using a Basketball Led by Regents Professor Dr. Marvin J. Slepian, a team from the University of Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Defense for three ventilator prototypes – including one using a basketball – that offer simple, low-cost designs featuring easily acquired materials that could be fabricated rapidly and used for full or partial ventilator support.
	UArizona Professors Bring Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom Faculty in a range of disciplines across the University of Arizona campus are incorporating COVID-19 discussions in their online classes.
	UArizona Medical Students Step Up to Help Health Care Professionals More than 70 University of Arizona medical students are helping health care professionals during the COVID-19 crisis by volunteering to provide child care, pet care, grocery shopping and more.
	UArizona Expert: Changes to Hospital Policies, Public Behavior Critical for Fighting COVID-19 Infection control expert Kelly Reynolds discusses, among other things, hospital infection control and ventilation measures and how they are being adjusted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
	UArizona Invention May Help COVID-19 Patients Breathe Easier Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Drs. Sairam Parthasarathy and Marvin Slepian, have invented a new respiratory-assist device that may provide fast, safe relief to those who experience difficulty breathing.
	UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson Students Given Option for Early Graduation in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic In coordination with the University of Arizona and College of Medicine – Phoenix, the College of Medicine — Tucson is offering early graduation to the Class of 2020. This option is for qualified students who wish to serve as new physicians to meet the unprecedented health needs that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.
	UArizona Cancer Center Joins Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network The University of Arizona Cancer Center will receive $1.4 million as a collaborating center with the national network of academic, public health and community partners, working together to reduce the burden of cancer, especially among Hispanic cancer survivors.
	Is COVID-19 Making You Stay at Home? Turn Your Home into a Healing Space! Whether for a home office or general living space, the way you lay out your physical environment at home can reduce stress and create calm, say researchers from the University of Arizona.
	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Will Allow Fourth-Year Students to Graduate Early Those who qualify can begin serving as early as mid-April.
	UArizona Students Support Pima County on Tracking COVID-19 Cases The SAFER program team, led by Dr. Kristen Pogreba-Brown in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will initiate investigations of positive COVID-19 cases to mitigate its spread and learn more about the risk factors.

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