April 1, 2021

April S.A.F.E. Newsletter Available

Ben Boulden

The April S.A.F.E. newsletter is available. The subject is Arkansas’ “Move Over Law.”


March 31, 2021

Brittany Butterfield Awarded National Zada M. Cooper Scholarship

Ben Boulden

Brittany Butterfield

Brittany Butterfield recently received a 2020-2021 Zada M. Cooper Scholarship, one of five national scholarships awarded by Kappa Epsilon, the Kappa Epsilon Foundation and its Scholarship Committee.


Ashlyn Tedder Receives 2021 APhA Foundation Scholarship

Ben Boulden

Ashlyn Tedder

Third-year College of Pharmacy student Ashlyn Tedder recently was awarded an APhA Foundation Scholarship by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).


March 30, 2021

New Dental Hygiene Clinic Already Benefits Local Community

Ben Boulden

Dental hygiene students do the preparatory work for applying a dental sealant to some of the teeth of one of the 56 children who came to March sealant clinic with their families.

Even before the new UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic in the Freeway Medical Tower had its official opening ceremony March 22, it already was delivering dental care to people in central Arkansas. On March 5, dental hygiene students, supervised by faculty, offered cleaning to residents of Our House, and on March 20, they applied dental sealants…


March 23, 2021

UAMS Mobile Unit Delivers ‘Shot of Hope’ With Statewide Vaccination Clinics

Ben Boulden

A nurse vaccinates a patient March 12 at Shorter College.

Since the Mobile Unit of the UAMS Office of Population Health started traveling to different Arkansas towns and cities, its staff and volunteer have given thousands of COVID-19 vaccinations and collected many personal stories of the pandemic. One such story stands out in the memory of Shannon Langhorn, MPH, LPN, Mobile Unit program manager. Langhorn…


March 17, 2021

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Vaccinations March 24 at Magnolia

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Mobile COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., March 24 at Southview Church of Christ, Multipurpose Building, 234 Fairview St., in Magnolia. The clinic is available to pre-registered patients only. No onsite registration will be allowed. There is no…


UAMS Clinics for Dental Hygiene, Speech and Hearing Education Move to New Locations

Ben Boulden

Chancellor Cam Patterson, right, tours the new UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic in the Freeway Medical Tower.

LITTLE ROCK — The Dental Hygiene Clinic and the Speech and Hearing Education Clinic have moved to new locations and are accepting appointments. Both clinics are part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Health Professions. The Dental Hygiene Clinic in the college’s Department of Dental Hygiene is on the fifth…


March 16, 2021

Town Hall Speakers Highlight UAMS Efforts to Bolster Health Equity

Ben Boulden

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patteson, center, answers a question in writing from a member of the Town Hall audience that was read out loud by Michael Manley, left, as Provost Stephanie Gardner listens.

Increasing health equity and decreasing disparities inspire action at UAMS. The efforts include operating a food pantry for students and employees that has distributed more than 245,000 meals, sustaining a student-run, faculty-supervised clinic that provides health screenings and preventative care to an underserved community and providing outreach to minority communities in Northwest Arkansas fighting COVID-19….


March 12, 2021

UAMS Dental Hygiene Program Offers Free Sealant Clinic for Children on March 20 at Freeway Medical Tower

Ben Boulden

Two dental hygiene students help a patient in a operatory in the new UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic. All students are supervised by faculty and instructors in the clinic.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Dental Hygiene is offering a free Sealant Clinic from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 20 at Freeway Medical Tower, 5800 W. 10th St., Suite 501. The clinic is for children 5-17 years old. A free dental examination is a part of…


March 11, 2021

Dental Hygiene and Audiology, Speech Pathology Clinics Now in New Locations

Ben Boulden

Students at the new UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic hone their new skills on a practice model set of teeth.

At a time when so much education is taking place virtually through live video, the UAMS College of Health Professions Departments of Audiology and Speech Pathology and Dental Hygiene recently found new physical homes for their clinics. In December, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology began moving into what had been office space in the Education South…



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