Announcements
March 29, 2019
12th Street Center’s March Man-ness Event Scores Victory for Health
![A March Man-ness Health Event volunteer talks with one of the attendees at one of the event's information tables.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/12thStreet-Man-ness2019-featured-150x150.jpg)
March Man-ness met basketball March Madness on a recent Saturday morning, and Charles Smith was able to enjoy peace of mind and entertainment from both.
March 28, 2019
UAMS Honors 36 for National Women’s History Month
![The 2019 UAMS Phenomenal Women on stage with their awards following the event.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSC_9156-150x150.jpg)
UAMS honored 36 phenomenal women from throughout the campus community at its annual National Women’s History Month celebration “Women of the World: Educating, Innovating, Serving.”
March 26, 2019
UAMS Day at the Capitol Highlights Programs, Offers Health Screenings
![Arkansas Sen. Missy Irvin of Mountain View (left) visits with UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA; Cancer Institute Interim Director Laura Hutchins, M.D.; and Dorothy Graves, Ph.D., Cancer Institute associate director of administration, during UAMS Day at the Capitol.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Day-at-the-Capitol-150x150.jpg)
UAMS Day at the Capitol on March 26 gave lawmakers a firsthand look at how the state’s only health sciences university impacts citizens across Arkansas.
March 25, 2019
Central Building Stairwell Gets a Makeover
![Marissa Miller, a student in the Physician Assistant Studies program, stands beside her mural.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_8418-150x150.jpg)
One of the stairwells on campus has gotten an inspiring facelift.The Get Healthy UAMS committee chose three artists to paint murals in the Central Building’s Stairwell Five, located behind the C elevators. The murals are located between the ground floor and the first floor.
March 21, 2019
Cooking for a Healthier State
![UAMS Northwest Regional Campus students and faculty from multiple departments (medicine, pharmacy and physical therapy) attend a culinary medicine workshop at Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food in Bentonville.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSC_7526-150x150.jpg)
“You are what you eat.”“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”Most of us have heard phrases like these over the years. And many of us have taken them to heart because they sound like common sense. But we probably never thought much about the science that actually supports them.
March 18, 2019
Virtual Reality Reveals Challenges of Aging
![Using virtual reality technology, Nathan King experiences a simulation of vision and hearing loss.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RIOA-VirtualReality-featured-150x150.jpg)
Nathan King was experiencing hearing loss and the blurred vision that comes with macular degeneration even though his eyes and ears were just fine. Through a computer simulation, King, an education coordinator in the new UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, was learning what the challenges are for older adults who live with these…
March 15, 2019
Match Day Tests Nerves, Offers Huge Payoffs to Graduating Medicine Seniors
![Student smiling at podium](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/match-day_1762-150x150.jpg)
Dreams really can come true — and for the 160-plus College of Medicine seniors who attended the annual Match Day event on Friday, those fulfilled wishes came in the form of envelopes that revealed where they will spend the next three to seven years as they complete their residency training. “It feels surreal,” said Daniel…
March 14, 2019
Nobel Laureate Says Teamwork, Relationships, Social Involvement Vital for Scientists
![Scientist at podium addressing large crowd](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Harold-Varmus_0854-150x150.jpg)
Science is about relationships, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, M.D., told the standing-room-only crowd at Student Research Day. The work is collegial, the results are meant to be shared, and its discoveries are inseparably linked to a wider social and political context.
March 8, 2019
Undergraduates Visit UAMS on Diversity Day
![Visiting undergraduates heard from current UAMS students during a lunch discussion panel.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSC_9524-150x150.jpg)
Undergraduate students from across the state got a personal introduction to UAMS and the variety of career options available in health care recently through Diversity Day. More than 145 students and 15 advisors from 20 Arkansas universities and a few surrounding states attended the annual conference-style event, hosted by the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs….
March 7, 2019
Patterson Discusses Finances, Raises in First State of the University Address
![Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, addresses employees during his first State of the University presentation. Patterson said he is committed to ensuring every UAMS employee is paid a living wage.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSC_0053-150x150.jpg)
Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, addressed a packed house Tuesday as he delivered his first State of the University address in the Fred Smith Auditorium in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
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