Student Union
May 6, 2020
UAMS Nursing Student Elected to Seek National Student Leaders
A junior in the UAMS College of Nursing BSN program was recently elected to a national position within the National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) and will now help shape the leadership of the organization. Jennifer Bustos, who will become a senior this fall, will serve on the Nomination and Elections Committee, which seeks out candidates…
April 15, 2020
UAMS Students Collect Personal Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers
LITTLE ROCK – Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in both central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas are collecting personal protective equipment (PPE) to distribute to health care workers throughout the state. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a critical national shortage of masks, surgical gowns and eye gear desperately needed by doctors,…
March 20, 2020
Match Day Goes Virtual: COVID-19 Changes, but Can’t Stop Spirit Behind COM Celebration
Match Day is always bittersweet, but the Class of 2020 tried to emphasize the sweet over the bitter at this year’s celebration despite the swirling context of a global pandemic and its unprecedented disruptions to daily life. There were still tears — but they were tears of joy, accomplishment and hard work paid off. And…
March 13, 2020
Orthopaedics Scholarship Encourages Student Diversity
The UAMS College of Medicine has established a scholarship to recruit underrepresented minority students to its orthopaedics program, one of only a handful of medical schools in the country to do so. The scholarship provides financial support to encourage fourth-year minority students outside of UAMS to apply for a four-week visiting student rotation in orthopaedic…
March 12, 2020
UAMS Pharmacy Students Help Refugees Navigate Pharmacies
As part of resettlement efforts for newly arrived refugees, pharmacy students from the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus recently gave tours of two local pharmacies to refugees in Washington County. Students also provided gift bags of thermometers, toiletries and other basic essentials.
February 10, 2020
Poison and Drug Information Center at UAMS Inspires Career Choices
Spending a month last May in the Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center helped Masha Yemets, a UAMS College of Pharmacy student, define the career path she wants to follow. Yemets, who graduates in May, spent that month answering calls in the center from a broad cross-section of the public. “I had an inkling I…
December 23, 2019
College of Pharmacy Ph.D. Program, Dual Degrees Offer Fulfillment
Choosing a career is sometimes difficult if a student has more than one interest. However, if a student has a passion for both pharmacy and research, pursuing concurrent Pharm.D., and Ph.D. degrees can unite those interests and double them. Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., came to that realization early in her study to earn a doctorate…
December 19, 2019
Medical Laboratory Sciences Student Awarded National Scholarship
Misty Schoolfield, a junior in the College of Health Professions’ Medical Laboratory Sciences programs, is one of five students nationwide to receive a $2,000 scholarship from the American Proficiency Institute (API).
December 17, 2019
UAMS Graduate Student Recognized for Research Publication
Tresor Mukiza, a Ph.D. student at UAMS, received high honors for his first-author publication in the November issue of the journal Genetics. The editors selected the paper to be featured in a Highlight, and cover art for the article was displayed on the journal home page during the month of publication. “This is a notable…
November 25, 2019
Senior Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna named Arkansas Nursing Student of the Year
UAMS College of Nursing senior Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna has been named the Arkansas Nursing Students’ Association (ANSA) Student of the Year. The award was presented last month at the ANSA state convention. “When Erin Salter, one of my classmates, told me I’d been selected, I started getting teary-eyed, because I was not expecting it,” said…
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