UAMS News


May 15, 2010

UAMS Graduates 870 New Health Care Professionals

Jon Parham

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded certificates and degrees today to 870 graduates of its five colleges and graduate school during its commencement ceremony at Barton Coliseum.


May 11, 2010

May 25, Science Café – ‘Sports Science & Medicine’

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, “Sports Science & Medicine” on May 25. Panelists will discuss the physics involved in various sports, as well as the mental and medical aspects of competitive sports. </span>


May 10, 2010

Steven McKee Wins UAMS Marvin Award

David Robinson

May 10, 2010| Steven McKee, son of Greg McKee and Sheila McKee of Little Rock, has won the Dr. Horace N. Marvin Award for achieving the highest numerical score in his freshman Medical Microscopic Anatomy course at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock.


Monticello Woman’s Irregular Heartbeat Cured at UAMS

David Robinson

May 10, 2010| For most of us, the electrical impulses that keep our heartbeat steady are rarely given much thought. But when the circuitry goes haywire, as it did for Glenda Kay Newton Wood of Monticello, finding the right physician is critical.


May 5, 2010

UAMS Names Raney Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Kevin Raney, Ph.D., a scientist who has studied enzymes that help build and maintain the body’s DNA, has been named chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine. </span>


May 4, 2010

UAMS Helping Establish Lab Sciences Program in Namibia

Jon Parham

May 4, 2010 | In one of the most rural African countries, some UAMS faculty members are reaching out to help a university there educate more health care professionals.


May 3, 2010

NICU Babies Win Big in Another Successful Julep Cup Jaunt

Nate Hinkel

May 3, 2010 | Severe storms throughout the late afternoon and early evening May 1 didn’t keep a few hundred supporters away from the seventh annual Julep Cup Jaunt to raise money for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).


April 29, 2010

Gardner Invested with Inaugural College of Pharmacy Chair

Nate Hinkel

April 29, 2010 | Stephanie F. Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was invested April 27 with the college’s inaugural Dean’s Chair.


April 28, 2010

Gardner Invested with Inaugural College of Pharmacy Chair

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Stephanie F. Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was invested April 27 with the college’s inaugural Dean’s Chair.</span>


April 27, 2010

Back From the Brink

David Robinson

April 27, 2010| John King half joked that he should be the poster child for UAMS. At a healthy 6 feet 4 inches tall, he doesn’t quite fit the mold, but he’s sure he wouldn’t be alive today if he hadn’t come to UAMS.



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