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Prisha Warikoo

College of Pharmacy Graduate Student Awarded National Research Fellowship

Prisha Warikoo, a Ph.D. graduate student in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was recently awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowship programs, providing three years of financial support…

Layla Simmons, left, Summer Khairi and Deziree Arnett, direct the three degree programs of the Department of Imaging and Radiation Sciences.

Spotlight on the Department of Imaging and Radiation Sciences

The Department of Imaging and Radiation Sciences offers bachelor of science programs in diagnostic medical sonography, nuclear medicine imaging sciences and radiologic imaging sciences. In this issue’s column, their directors provide updates on recent developments and growth in their programs.

Cherika Robertson, left, Aaron Woodall and Lesley Jones are three of the graduates who have come back to the UAMS College of Health Professions to teach.

From Student to Teacher: CHP Alumni Return to Shape the Next Generation of Students

For some graduates of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Health Professions (CHP), their UAMS journey doesn’t end at commencement. Sometimes the past student becomes today’s teacher. After working in their careers outside the university, nearly half of the college’s core faculty have returned to UAMS’ classrooms, labs, and clinical training…

Two graduates pause in caps, gowns and doctoral hoods for a selfie after the ceremony.

UAMS College of Medicine Celebrates Class of 2026

They walked into the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock as fourth-year medical students, and less than three hours later, after reciting the Hippocratic Oath before family, friends, mentors, and university leaders assembled in a sprawling conference hall, they walked out as doctors. Equal parts somber and giddy, the May 15 event marked the…

Emergency medicine residents work on a mannikin in a simulation. The mannikin is in a hospital bed in a simulated emergency.

Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Mass Casualty Simulation

Emergency medicine residents at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received hands-on training in handling a mass casualty incident when the emergency room was suddenly inundated May 13 with standardized patients from an imagined collision between a bus and a pesticide-hauling 18-wheeler.

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