October 4, 2022
Energy Project Attracts National Attention, Awards
![Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, left, looks on as Chancellor Cam Patterson, center, prepares to push a button on a control panel to start one of the generators at the 2021 dedication of the new UAMS power plant on the east side of the Little Rock campus.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Power-Plant-Start-Up-featured-150x150.jpg)
As it nears completion in December, the $150 million UAMS energy project already is producing cost savings and garnering national praise.
September 26, 2022
Congressional Staffer Visits Physician Assistant Studies Department
![Amelia Allert, second from left, a legislative assistant in the Office of U.S. Rep. French Hill, visits with Physician Assistant Studies students at UAMS.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FrenchHillStaff-Allert-featured-150x150.jpg)
Just as new students were arriving at UAMS, a legislative assistant working for U.S. Rep. French Hill visited the College of Health Professions Department of Physician Assistant Studies with a goal of learning more about the program.
September 16, 2022
College of Health Professions Honors Scholars, Donors at Scholarship Reception
![The recipients of College of Health Professions student scholarships gather on a staircase in the Rahn Building after the scholarship reception honoring them.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CHP-Scholarship-09082022-EDL_6422-150x150.jpg)
Smiles may have been just a bit brighter from UAMS College of Health Professions scholarship recipients at the Sept. 8 reception that brought them together with scholarship donors. Dean Susan Long, Ed.D., said the increasing cost of living in 2022 has only added value to the financial support that scholarships offer to students. “Some students…
September 13, 2022
September MVP — Janet Hopper
![Janet Hopper, September 2022 MVP](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hopper_Janet-Sept-MVP-post-150x150.jpg)
Meet Janet Hopper, the MVP for September. Janet serves UAMS as a grants/cost accounting data manager.
September 9, 2022
UAMS Physician Assistant Class of 2022 Overcomes Pandemic Challenges to Graduate
![Joseph Frescura, left, waits to step onto the stage and watches as Edward Williams and Hillary Mayberry help Taryn Frazier put on her long, white coat as part of the Valediction Ceremony for the Physician Assistant Program's Class of 2022.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PA-Valediction-2022-featured-150x150.jpg)
What the members of the UAMS Physician Assistant Class of 2022 went through to get to their Aug. 26 Valediction Ceremony marking the completion of their studies was and probably will remain singular in the program’s history.
August 24, 2022
Audiology, Speech Pathology Students Don ‘Cloaks of Compassion’ at White Coat Ceremony
![Students in the audiology Class of 2026 and the speech-language pathology Class of 2024 and faculty from the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology gather for a group photo after the White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 19](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CHP-Speech-Audiology-White-Coat-featured-150x150.jpg)
New students in the UAMS College of Health Professions Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology on Aug. 19 marked the formal beginning of the next phase of their academic lives by putting on their white coats.
August 18, 2022
New Students Get Overview of Year Ahead in College of Health Professions
![Hundreds of new College of Health Professions students listen to one of several presentations Aug. 15 during the New Student Welcome Program.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NewStudentOrientation-CHP-2022-150x150.jpg)
To learn at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), students first need to learn about the university and their programs, and that’s what hundreds of new students in the College of Health Professions did Aug. 15 during the New Student Welcome Program.
August 2, 2022
August MVP — Melissa Bryan
![Melissa Bryan](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MVP-post-Bryan-Aug2022a-150x150.jpg)
Meet Melissa Bryan, the MVP for August. Melissa serves UAMS as a diagnostic radiology technologist in the Internal Medicine Service Line.
July 22, 2022
UAMS Nurses Enjoy Cooking, Eating, Learning through Culinary Medicine
![Rebecca Smith, left, and Dees Davis, right, cook a frittata during a workshop in late June in the UAMS Culinary Medicine Kitchen.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Culinary-workshop-nurses-Featured-150x150.jpg)
The UAMS Culinary Medicine Kitchen offers Team UAMS members like Dees Davis, RN, an opportunity to eat what they have learned at the end of a class.
July 15, 2022
Turnout Strong for First ‘Summer of Smiles’ Dental Hygiene Clinic
![More than 70 children received preventative care at two Summer of Smiles clinics.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SummerOfSmiles-featured-150x150.jpg)
More than 70 children received preventative care at two Summer of Smiles clinics organized in June by the Department of Dental Hygiene in the UAMS College of Health Professions. They were the department’s first summer clinics. “I was a bit surprised,” said Bridget Fitzhugh, RDH, an instructor in the department. “Sometimes the clinics can be…
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