Announcements
October 14, 2019
Innovation is Focus of Storied Faculty Development Program
![Teaching Scholars gather for the first meeting of the nine-month program in September.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Teaching-Scholars-09062019-DSC_2376-150x150.jpg)
A storied, 24-year-old program in the UAMS Office of Educational Development (OED), Division of Academic Affairs, is taking steps to help faculty members become better teachers and scholars as they themselves become students and embrace innovative instructional methods in a professional development program called Teaching Scholars. “Teaching Scholars has a great tradition of advancing the…
October 10, 2019
2019 Employee Service Awards — The Honorees
![Thank You](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Thank-you-150x150.jpg)
Twenty-three UAMS employees are being honored this year for their four decades or more of service. We want to thank them for their years of dedication to improving the health and well-being of all Arkansans.
October 4, 2019
Celebrations Showcase Parade of Cultures at UAMS
![International Fest included tables with cultural items, food by UAMS Catering and demonstrations, such as a traditional Filipino dance with candles.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/International-Fest-09272019-DSC_5744-150x150.jpg)
Hundreds of members of the campus community recently packed the ground floor concourse of the UAMS Education II building to travel the world. About a dozen countries were represented at International Fest, the Sept. 27 culminating celebration of Diversity Month, organized by the UAMS Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and co-sponsored by the Chancellor’s…
October 3, 2019
College of Medicine Students Get into Spirit at Academic House Olympics
![Students cheering](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/COM-academic-house-olympics_9798-150x150.jpg)
Medical school isn’t always about books and biology. Sometimes it’s about Baggo and bragging rights. Such is the case at the Academic House Olympics, an annual event where students, faculty and their families put aside the hard work of medical school for an afternoon to have a little fun. This year’s festivities were held in…
Arkansas Increases Career Service Bonus Amounts
During the legislative session, the State of Arkansas passed Act 914 to amend the annual career service recognition payments for state employees. The new bonus amounts for UAMS staff went into effect July 25, 2019.
October 2019
October 2019
Employee Accolades — October 2019
Lakeisha Carroll, an access coordinator in the Cancer Institute’s seventh-floor clinics, received the Golden Mug for September as the staff member at the Cancer Institute whose work deserves special recognition.
September 27, 2019
Vigil Honors Groundbreaking Life, Career of Edith Irby Jones
![UAMS faculty, staff and students hold lighted candles in memory of Edith Irby Jones, M.D., who died July 15.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Candlelight-vigil-09242019-DSC_8941-150x150.jpg)
Dozens of UAMS faculty, staff and students gathered outside the Medical Center on a mercifully cool and clear evening for a vigil by the Edith Irby Jones, M.D., chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) to honor its namesake, who died July 15. Jones became the first African American to attend an all-white medical…
September 25, 2019
Research Induction Ceremony Launches Graduate Students’ Path to Ph.D.
![Twenty-five UAMS Graduate School students from seven programs received white lab coats Sept. 16, signaling their readiness to begin doctoral research.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Research-Induction-2019-2-MB-cropped-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Twenty-five UAMS Graduate School students from seven programs received white lab coats Sept. 16, signaling their readiness to begin doctoral research. The donning of new research coats embroidered with their name to celebrate their pursuit of doctoral degrees may seem like a transformative moment happening in an instant. In reality, a lot of work took…
September 24, 2019
Employees at UAMS Take Time to Share, Celebrate Kindness
![Medical student Dhruba Dasgupta receives a Kind bar from Stephanie Gardner, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost, during Kindness Week.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Kind-bar-Stephanie-Gardner-Dhruba-Dasgupta-resized-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Watch out; it is highly infectious. It began when one person shared it with another and it appears to be on the rise. Few, from employees to patients, seem to be immune as it continues to increase. What is ‘it’? Good will toward others. There has been an outbreak of kindness across UAMS and it…
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