April 1, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinics will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., on four dates in April, May and June at Simmons Bank Arena, 1 Simmons Bank Arena Drive in North Little Rock.
March 31, 2021 | Brittany Butterfield recently received a 2020-2021 Zada M. Cooper Scholarship, one of five national scholarships awarded by Kappa Epsilon, the Kappa Epsilon Foundation and its Scholarship Committee.
March 31, 2021 | Third-year College of Pharmacy student Ashlyn Tedder recently was awarded an APhA Foundation Scholarship by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...