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For Catherin Guerra, a Forty Acres Scholar, Bachelor of Science in Nursing Honors Student at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, the spark for a future in nursing began at a young age.

On fall Saturdays, the energy inside Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium is electric. While more than 100,000 fans cheer for the Longhorns, another team works behind the scenes to keep those fans safe. Among them is The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing alumna Amanda Martinez, MSN ‘23, RN. She’s an ER nurse with the St. David’s HealthCare event medical team, the official health care sponsor and emergency services provider for Texas Athletics.

Bo Xie, PhD, FGSA, professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing and School of Information, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support her research project titled, “StatWiseAI: An AI-Powered Educational Tool for Enhancing Methodological Rigor in Large-Scale Data Analysis.”

Yaolin Pei, PhD, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, has been awarded the prestigious R00 award from the National Institute on Aging to advance research that supports Chinese American dementia caregivers in making informed, culturally sensitive decisions about feeding their loved ones.