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Campus representatives from areas including the UAMS Library, Student Financial Services, the Student Success Center and the Graduate Student Association visited with the new students at various tables during a recent 90-minute fair.

Graduate School Welcomes New Students

Aug. 26, 2021 | As the fall semester began, Robert McGehee, Ph.D., dean of the UAMS Graduate School, and other campus leaders recently welcomed new graduate students with an orientation on the first floor of the I. Dodd Wilson building. It was the first such in-person orientation the Graduate School has held since 2019. Nearly 30 of this year’s...

portrait of William Steinbach, M.D., and UAMS logo

William J. Steinbach, M.D., Joins UAMS as Chair of Department of Pediatrics

Aug. 26, 2021 | William J. Steinbach, M.D., will join the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chair of the Department of Pediatrics and associate dean for Child Health in the UAMS College of Medicine, as well as pediatrician-in-chief of Arkansas Children’s, effective Jan. 15, 2022. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Steinbach join UAMS as we...

Pilar Murphy, Pharm.D., MPH.

Alumna Pilar Murphy, Pharm.D., Returns to College of Pharmacy as Associate Professor

Aug. 26, 2021 | College of Pharmacy alumna Pilar Murphy, Pharm.D., MPH, BCACP, has joined the Department of Pharmacy Practice as an associate professor. Murphy returns to UAMS after most recently serving as an associate professor at Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy since 2012. “I’m very excited. Coming back to UAMS and coming back home was always the...

First-year students in the College of Pharmacy wait to begin their first day of orientation on Aug. 2, 2021.

New Pharmacy Students Mask Up For First In-Person Orientation in Two Years

Aug. 24, 2021 | Dean Cindy Stowe, Pharm.D., of the UAMS College of Pharmacy let out a sigh of relief before she officially greeted the Class of 2025 at the college’s first in-person orientation in two years. Her sigh represented the long-anticipated return of face-to-face classes and events. “This is amazing. My jaw is dropped if you can’t see...

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