UAMS News
August 18, 2010
$500,000 in Gifts To Go For Fight Against Neurological Diseases
Aug. 18, 2010 | Two $250,000 gifts, one in honor of Frances Ernareeth (Reese) Adkins Barnes, have been given to the Major and Ruth Nodini Endowed Chair in Neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The donors wished to remain anonymous.
Orthopaedic Oncologist Corey Montgomery, M.D., Joins UAMS
<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Corey Montgomery, M.D., has joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor of orthopaedics. He will see patients with bone cancer, soft-tissue cancer and metastatic cancer to bone in the Orthopaedic Oncology Clinic at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.</span>
August 16, 2010
UAMS’ Barger Takes Alzheimer’s Passion on the Road
Aug. 16, 2010| UAMS’ Steve Barger, Ph.D., is passionate about Alzheimer’s research and biking. So when he got the rare opportunity to combine those passions in one project, he didn’t hesitate.
August 13, 2010
UAMS Receives $500,000 in Gifts For Fight Against Neurological Diseases
<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Two $250,000 gifts, one in honor of Frances Ernareeth (Reese) Adkins Barnes, have been given to the Major and Ruth Nodini Endowed Chair in Neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The donors wished to remain anonymous.</span>
Borders Awarded $1.5 million for Drug Use Treatment Study
Aug. 13, 2010 | A $1.5 million federal grant to examine differences between rural and urban African-American drug users is intended to find ways to encourage both groups to seek treatment.
August 11, 2010
UAMS Receives Awards for Energy Efficiency, Cost Savings
Aug. 11, 2010 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Residence Hall that opened in 2006 has the highest score for energy efficiency of any residence hall in the nation. In addition, the UAMS campus added more than 1 million square feet in construction the last two years and still lowered its energy consumption per square foot by 20 percent.
Tollett Family Sees Firsthand JEI’s Plans for $3 Million Gift
Aug. 11, 2010 | Leland and Betty Tollett are most inspired that the $3 million gift they’ve pledged to the UAMS Jones Eye Institute will create a genetics clinic that will be one of only four of its kind nationwide.
UAMS Receives ENERGY STAR®, E2C Awards for Energy Efficiency, Cost Savings
<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reduced energy use per square foot by 20 percent in the past two years as it added 1 million square feet in new construction.</span>
August 9, 2010
College of Medicine Presents White Coats to Incoming Students
Aug. 9, 2010 | The 174 students in the College of Medicine Class of 2014 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) took their first steps toward becoming physicians when they received their brand-new white physician coats in an Aug. 6 ceremony.
$3.6 Million Grant Awarded to Study Decisions of Drug Users
<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Warren K. Bickel, Ph.D., director of the Center for Addiction Research (CAR) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has received a $3,665,151 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, to study the decision-making process of cocaine users. </span>
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