Graduate School
July 26, 2019
Summer Undergraduate Researchers Get First Taste of Real Science
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Twelve undergraduate students from across the United States worked in real labs, doing real research this summer at UAMS — many of them for the first time. The Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Increase Diversity in Research is hosted annually by the UAMS Graduate School and Center for Diversity Affairs and is funded by the…
May 29, 2019
Graduate School Brunch Celebrates Student Support Networks
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The Graduate School Commencement Brunch is an annual event that celebrates family — both in the traditional and non-traditional sense. Each year, students finishing their Ph.D., M.S. and certificate programs through the UAMS Graduate School meet for a casual brunch. The food is plentiful, but the formal agenda is sparse — in contrast to the…
May 20, 2019
UAMS Graduates 864 Health Care Professionals
![Sharanda Williams (center), director of Academic Affairs in the UAMS College of Medicine, stands as marshal with students ready to receive their diplomas.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_7785-150x150.jpg)
Degrees and certificates were awarded to 864 graduates of the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) five colleges and graduate school May 18 during a commencement ceremony at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. Degrees were presented to 165 in the College of Medicine, 229 in the College of Nursing, 111 in the College of…
March 14, 2019
Nobel Laureate Says Teamwork, Relationships, Social Involvement Vital for Scientists
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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 6, 2019
UAMS Graduate Student Receives Prestigious NCI Fellowship
![UAMS Graduate School student has received a fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to support his melanoma research.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Koss_Brian-for-web-150x150.jpg)
A prestigious fellowship from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will allow UAMS Graduate School student Brian Koss to advance his melanoma research.
February 19, 2019
Nobel Laureate, Cancer Expert to Give Distinguished Lecture
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The public is invited to hear Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, M.D., an expert in cancer biology and former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI), at 8:30 a.m. March 12 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The free lecture, “Cancer Research: Then and Now,” will be…
November 1, 2018
Graduate School Career Day Celebrates Multitude of Career Paths
![Dr. Berg giving presentation](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/grad-career-day_8132-amy-150x150.jpg)
The UAMS Graduate School Career Day for Biomedical Sciences is an annual way to celebrate the variety and excitement of a career path made available by a doctoral degree in biomedical sciences. About 160 undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from UAMS, Arkansas and surrounding states attended the Oct. 18 event, which featured six speakers,…
October 1, 2018
Research Induction Ceremony Marks Formal Beginning to Ph.D. Path
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One minute they were all students — the next, they were scientists.
It’s a little bit of magic that happens annually at the UAMS Graduate School’s Research Induction Ceremony, when Ph.D. candidates from a variety of disciplines put on the white lab coats that symbolize their dedication to science.
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