Announcements
August 24, 2021
New Pharmacy Students Mask Up For First In-Person Orientation in Two Years
![First-year students in the College of Pharmacy wait to begin their first day of orientation on Aug. 2, 2021.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/COP-Orientation-1-150x150.jpg)
Dean Cindy Stowe, Pharm.D., of the UAMS College of Pharmacy let out a sigh of relief before she officially greeted the Class of 2025 at the college’s first in-person orientation in two years. Her sigh represented the long-anticipated return of face-to-face classes and events. “This is amazing. My jaw is dropped if you can’t see…
August 23, 2021
Chancellor’s Town Hall COVID-19 Panel Answers Questions about Third Shots, Immunity
![Aug. 19 Town Hall](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Town-Hall-Aug-featured-150x150.jpg)
As soon as Sept. 20, UAMS may begin offering third vaccination shots to further protect its vaccinated students, employees, and members of the community against COVID-19.
August 19, 2021
Take 2 Initiative Accepting Submissions
Take 2 is an innovative opportunity sponsored by the Center for Nursing Excellence for direct care nursing staff to submit ideas to eliminate two steps in a nursing process or practice to improve nursing workflow and save time without compromising safety. Submissions opened Aug. 1.
August 13, 2021
Team UAMS Wears Blue to Thank Health Care Workers during Pandemic
![Wear Blue](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WearBlueMedCtr5-featured-150x150.jpg)
Blue met blue at UAMS and said ‘thank you’ starting at 6 a.m. Aug. 13. More than 50 UAMS volunteers in various articles of blue clothing gathered at three separate campus building entrances to say ‘thank you’ to co-workers, most of whom work in clinical areas and many of them in similarly colored apparel.
August 12, 2021
Reminder: You Must Wear Your Mask on UAMS Property
Everyone at UAMS, including employees, visitors, faculty and students, must wear their masks at all times on UAMS property, even outdoors or while walking to and from your vehicle or other transportation.
Short-Term Child Care Assistance For Essential Workers
The 2021 Federal COVID Relief Package provides additional funding for child care providers and essential worker child care assistance.
August 7, 2021
August MVP — Gloria Flowers Williams
![Gloria Flowers Williams](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Flowers_Williams_Gloria-Aug-featured-150x150.jpg)
The MVP for August is Gloria Flowers Williams, who in the course of her job exemplifies all of the UAMS values of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate. Gloria is an administrative specialist in the Department of Patient Safety and Relations. Here is what her nominator wrote:
Gloria is one of our first lines for a patient complaint – she takes down their information and helps coordinate that message to the correct Patient Relations Coordinator. She listens to angry or upset patients…
August 4, 2021
Expert Panel Answers COVID-19 Questions at Chancellor’s Town Hall
![Before the town hall, Robert Hopkins Jr., second from right, talks with James Graham (standing), Michelle Krause and Steppe Mette, right. All four physicians made up a panel of experts who answered questions at the meeting.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/COVID-Townhal-lfeatured-150x150.jpg)
A Town Hall panel gathered July 28 to answer questions from the online audience about COVID-19 featured familiar faces.
August 3, 2021
UAMS Celebrates MVP Awardees at Second Annual Luncheon
![Cam Patterson and 2021 MVPs](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MVP-Luncheon2021-featured-150x150.jpg)
Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, at a July 28 luncheon thanked and praised UAMS employees who in the last 12 months won an MVP award and whose contributions in earlier years might have gone largely unsung.
Fourth Street Pedestrian, Vehicle Traffic Restricted
The most recent UAMS project (Radiation Oncology Center/Proton Therapy Center) has begun at the intersection of Fourth and Cedar streets. Because of the project, Fourth Street is effectively closed between Cedar and Pine streets and will be for the next two years.
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