Announcements


May 29, 2025

UAMS Celebrates Project SEARCH 2025 Interns in Graduation Ceremony

Ben Boulden

Seven members of the Project SEARCH Class of 2025 participated in the May 15 graduation ceremony. Chancellor Cam Patterson, center, delivered opening remarks. Project SEARCH graduates, left to right, are: Tyheim Bones, Logan Ferguson, Amy Johnson, Keshawn Lamar, Lacinda Carter, Gavin McGinnis and Sunny Welch. Not pictured, Layla Macon.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated eight students in a May 15 graduation ceremony that marked their completion of the nine-month Project SEARCH internship program. Project SEARCH Arkansas ACCESS Initiative, in partnership with Arkansas Rehabilitative Services (ARS), is for young adults with developmental disabilities. Interns in the program work in various UAMS…


College of Health Professions Celebrates College’s Largest Graduating Class Ever

Ben Boulden

Graduating College of Health Professions students proceed in a long line up to the Statehouse Convention Center stage at the start of the college's May 16 commencement ceremony.

Although the College of Health Professions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is more than 50 years old, the college celebrated its first college-wide commencement ceremony on May 16..


May 28, 2025

UAMS College of Medicine Graduates 168

Linda Satter

Each student was assisted onstage by family, friends or members of the faculty as they received their doctoral hoods.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) conferred degrees on 168 graduates of the College of Medicine on May 16 during a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock. The formal transition from fourth-year medical students to physicians began with Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, conferring medical degrees on students just…


May 27, 2025

Graduate School Celebrates 50 Graduates at Commencement Ceremony

Nathan Tidwell

Graduate School Feature

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School celebrated its graduates at a commencement and reception May 15. Faculty, family and friends gathered at the Fred W. Smith Auditorium on the 12th floor of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute as 50 students received conferral of doctoral degrees, Master of Science…


May 23, 2025

College of Pharmacy Class of 2025 Receives Degrees at Ceremony

Benjamin Waldrum

College of Pharmacy Class of 2025 Graduates

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Pharmacy celebrated the Class of 2025 at a May 17 ceremony in Benton, where 85 students received their Doctor of Pharmacy degrees in front of a packed house of family, friends and well-wishers. The standing-room-only crowd filled the Benton High School Butler Auditorium to capacity and…


May 22, 2025

1,700 Rally for Cancer, Raise $470,000 at Fifth Be A Part of the Cure Walk

Marty Trieschmann

1,700 Rally for Cancer, Raise $470,000 at Fifth Be A Part of the Cure Walk

The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held its fifth Be A Part of the Cure Walk on Saturday, May 3, in Little Rock. With a total of 1,700 walkers registered from 71 cities and 10 states, the huge crowd circled the War Memorial Stadium’s outdoor course…


May 21, 2025

UAMS College of Nursing Honors 183 Graduates at Commencement Ceremony

Chris Carmody

A graduate receives his diploma and congratulations from Patricia Cowan, dean of the College of Nursing.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing celebrated commencement with a May 16 ceremony that recognized 183 graduates as new colleagues in the nursing profession.


May 14, 2025

HUPC Program Celebrates Largest Graduating Class to Date

Philip Allison

HUPC logo

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is celebrating its largest graduating class yet from the Honors in Underserved Primary Care (HUPC) program.   HUPC is designed to prepare medical students to care for rural and underserved populations across Arkansas. Upon completion of the program, participants graduate from medical school with an Honors designation.  The…


May 7, 2025

Journal Publishes Paper by College of Public Health Student

Kev' Moye

Ajoke

Ajoke Adebisi-Ogedegbe, a doctoral student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, led a women’s health study recently published by the African Journal of Reproductive Health. Adebisi-Ogedegbe, who’s in the college’s Health Promotion and Prevention Research Program, spearheaded the research project, “Two Decades of Women’s Sexual…


May 5, 2025

MVP for May — Michael Arnold

News Staff

Michael Arnold, MVP for May 2025

Meet Michael Arnold, the MVP for May. Michael serves as an inventory control technician. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.



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