Ashlyn Tedder Receives 2021 APhA Foundation Scholarship
March 31, 2021 | Third-year College of Pharmacy student Ashlyn Tedder recently was awarded an APhA Foundation Scholarship by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
University News
New Dental Hygiene Clinic Already Benefits Local Community
March 30, 2021 | Even before the new UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic in the Freeway Medical Tower had its official opening ceremony March 22, it already was delivering dental care to people in central Arkansas. On March 5, dental hygiene students, supervised by faculty, offered cleaning to residents of Our House, and on March 20, they applied dental sealants...
UAMS Medical Student Accepted for Prestigious NIH Fellowship
March 29, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — Mason Belue, a second-year medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is one of 50 students from across the country chosen to participate in a yearlong residential immersion program at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. It is only the second time in a decade...
UAMS Opens Satellite Transplant Clinic in Texarkana
March 26, 2021 | A satellite clinic for UAMS Health’s kidney and liver transplant patients in southwest Arkansas opened March 28 at the UAMS Southwest Regional Campus in Texarkana.
Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Team Chosen as a Finalist in Artificial Intelligence Competition
March 25, 2021 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) was one of 13 university teams selected as a North American regional finalist in the OpenCV Artificial Intelligence Competition. There were nearly 1,400 entries worldwide in this competition, with 210 teams chosen as finalists across six geographic regions. The IDHI...
Four UAMS Cancer Institute Scientists Receive Research Grants
March 24, 2021 | Four researchers at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute received a funding boost thanks to newly awarded $50,000 grants, which were announced in a virtual ceremony March 11. Presented annually since 2009, the Seeds of Science pilot grant awards assist cancer researchers in collecting data and developing projects that have the potential to result...
Virtual Match Day Celebration Doesn’t Dampen COM Seniors’ Enthusiasm
March 23, 2021 | Senior medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) gathered virtually Friday – some by themselves, some holding babies, some surrounded by family, friends and even their dogs – to announce where they would be continuing their medical training. Just before the virtual ceremony began, the students at UAMS and other medical...
UAMS Mobile Unit Delivers ‘Shot of Hope’ With Statewide Vaccination Clinics
March 23, 2021 | Since the Mobile Unit of the UAMS Office of Population Health started traveling to different Arkansas towns and cities, its staff and volunteer have given thousands of COVID-19 vaccinations and collected many personal stories of the pandemic. One such story stands out in the memory of Shannon Langhorn, MPH, LPN, Mobile Unit program manager. Langhorn...
UAMS’ Justin Leung, Ph.D., Receives $1.47 million Grant from National Cancer Institute to Study DNA Damage Regulation
March 18, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — A five-year, $1.47 million National Cancer Institute grant has been awarded to researcher Justin Leung, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to study DNA repair. Leung’s project is a collaboration with Robert Eoff, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UAMS College...
UAMS Clinics for Dental Hygiene, Speech and Hearing Education Move to New Locations
March 17, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The Dental Hygiene Clinic and the Speech and Hearing Education Clinic have moved to new locations and are accepting appointments. Both clinics are part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Health Professions. The Dental Hygiene Clinic in the college’s Department of Dental Hygiene is on the fifth...