Announcements


November 5, 2020

November MVP — Keira Webb

Yavonda Chase

Keira Webb is the November MVP of the Month.

Congratulations to Keira Webb, our November MVP of the Month!
Webb works as a Campus Environmental Services housekeeper, a position she has only held for a few months. In that time, she has impressed her co-workers with her diligence and attention to detail.


November 4, 2020

UAMS Meets State Goal, Buys 20% of Food from Arkansas Sources

Yavonda Chase

UAMS purchases 20% of its food from local sources, including fruits, vegetables, poultry, rice, dairy, bread and coffee.

For the second year, UAMS purchased 20% of its food from local sources, meeting a requirement set by the Arkansas Legislature.


November 3, 2020

October Town Hall Focuses on Employee Wellness

Yavonda Chase

Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, introduces a full panel of speakers during the Oct. 28 Town Hall.

Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, and other UAMS leaders urged employees to take time for themselves during an Oct. 28 Town Hall.


Stocked & Reddie Needs Boxes

Yavonda Chase

Stocked & Reddie needs boxes with lids (copy paper sized) for delivering food to Team UAMS members who are quarantined at home.


October 29, 2020

Implicit Bias Training

Yavonda Chase

The Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DDEI) is excited to announce the launch of a momentous initiative for UAMS. Per the Vision 2029 strategic plan, UAMS will require completion of a cultural humility/implicit bias workshop, on an annual basis, for all UAMS faculty and staff state-wide beginning in November 2020.


October 26, 2020

Program Highlights Managers Leading Engaged Teams

Yavonda Chase

“Right now, UAMS is really focusing on increasing employee engagement, which can sometimes be difficult for managers to really understand and implement,” said Shelby Fray, senior OD consultant. “The idea behind this interview series is to listen to managers who are already engaging their employees and find out how they’re doing it.”

The Organizational Development Department in the UAMS Office of Human Resources is highlighting managers at UAMS who are leading highly engaged teams.


October 23, 2020

UAMS College of Pharmacy Business Plan Team Takes National Award for Fourth Time for Most Wins Ever

Ben Boulden

On March 5 before masking and social distancing guidelines were in effect, the NCPA Student Business Plan team stands in front of a pharmacy decorated with signs to stand in for the team's Functional Pharmacy concept they proposed in their winning business plan. Team members are, left to right, Patrick Gurley, Brittany Butterfield, Marissa Johnston and Byron Johnson.

LITTLE ROCK — A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy team of four student pharmacists achieved a record-setting win recently in a national business plan competition. It marked the fourth time in eight years a team from the college has won the National Community Pharmacy Association’s Good Neighbor Pharmacy Pruitt-Schutte Student…


October 22, 2020

UAMS Drug Free Campus Notice

Yavonda Chase

As a drug free campus, all employees, faculty and students must acknowledge that they have received the notice about the UAMS drug free campus program. You MUST log into MyCompass and check the box that you have received the notice.


Plateau Street Between Pine and Cedar Closed; Don’t Cut Through Parking Lots

Yavonda Chase

Plateau Street between Pine and Cedar Streets closed to traffic July 8 and will remain closed until approximately September 2022 as part of the project to reroute Pine and Cedar. Please DO NOT cut through the Walgreen’s and Subway parking lots as this creates a dangerous situation.


October 21, 2020

Two Toxicology Ph.D. Students Earn Inaugural Distinguished Scholarship

News Staff

Brian Parks and Lance Benson at a virtual meeting for the scholarship recipients.

UAMS Graduate School Ph.D. students Lance Benson and Brian Parks have been named the inaugural Dr. Glenn and Lori Millner Distinguished Scholars in Pharmacology and Toxicology. Millner earned his Ph.D. from the UAMS Graduate School in 1988 from what was then called the Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program. In 1997, he and colleagues founded their company, Center…



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