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March 21, 2025
College of Pharmacy Honors Pilar Murphy, Pharm.D., with Memorial Scholarship
The UAMS College of Pharmacy has established the Pilar Murphy Memorial Scholarship to honor the beloved alumna and faculty member who died Nov. 2.
March 20, 2025
Speaker at Sandor Lecture Discusses Climate Change’s Impact on Mental Health
The mental health impacts of climate change and the importance of working as a community to mitigate them was the focus of the third annual Richard and Ellen Sandor Lecture Series on Medicine and Sustainability.
March 18, 2025
UAMS Honors Famed Neurosurgeon, Nurse at Symposium
A recent symposium honored the legacy of M. Gazi Yasargil, M.D., an internationally renowned neurosurgeon who is often referred to as the “father of modern microneurosurgery” and who spent nearly 20 years at UAMS, and his wife, Dianne Yasargil, a former UAMS nurse.
December 26, 2024
Gail Runnells, RN, Wins 2024 Bonny Hope Wallace Award
Gail Runnells, RN, a clinical research nurse manager at the UAMS Translational Research Institute, recently received the 2024 Bonny Hope Wallace Award for her outstanding work as a research coordinator, mentor and manager.
December 19, 2024
Head Start Carolers Bring Holiday Spirit to Halls of UAMS
The halls of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) were alive with the sound of music Dec. 13 as a line of preschoolers from the UAMS Kennedy Head Start center left a trail of sparkle and song from the chancellor’s office to the Lobby Café. The 13 pint-sized carolers each wore a floppy…
November 21, 2024
UAMS Medical Center Achieves Magnet® Recognition for Clinical Care and Nursing Excellence
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center was awarded the highest international recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), achieving designation as a Magnet® hospital.
November 13, 2024
Miss America Madison Marsh Visits UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Miss America Madison Marsh understands what cancer can do to a family. The Fort Smith, Arkansas, native lost her mother, Whitney Marsh, to pancreatic cancer when Madison was just 17 years old.
November 4, 2024
UAMS Earns ‘Most Wired’ Recognition from CHIME for Use of Technology
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently garnered recognition as a 2024 Digital Health Most Wired organization from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
October 15, 2024
‘Drugified’ Depictions Everywhere in America, Says Author Sam Quinones
The American public is “assaulted” with addictive images every day, according to award-winning author Sam Quinones, so it should come as no surprise that so many people are drawn to the abundance of illicit drugs available throughout the country.
October 7, 2024
Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Focuses on Historic Disparities in Health Care
The history of U.S. health care has long ignored the impact of and on African Americans, and Harriet Washington wants to change that. On Sept. 25 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), she presented “Medical Apartheid … and Beyond” as part of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture series. Washington, an award-winning…
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