April 12, 2016 | April 12, 2016 | A UAMS graduate student has been selected by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to participate in a prestigious mentoring program. Sarah Kennett, a Ph.D. candidate in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program of the Graduate School and College of Health Professions, was chosen for the Pathways Program, a mentoring program for early-career...
April 8, 2016 | April 8, 2016 | On the day reserved for his highest individual academic honor, Richard W. Nicholas, M.D., stressed the importance of teamwork. “Everyone remembers Watson and Crick,” he said of the two men who, in 1953, discovered the structure of DNA and later shared a Nobel Prize. “But whatever people remember of what they...
April 8, 2016 | April 8, 2016 | Mark T. Jansen, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested April 4 as the inaugural recipient of the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, George K. Mitchell, M.D., Endowed Chair in Primary Care. The chair was established with a $1 million grant to UAMS in 2015 from...
April 7, 2016 | April 7, 2016 | Friends of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute gathered April 5 to recognize Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., as the 2016 Cancer Institute Auxiliary’s Distinguished Honoree. Rahn is the 22nd recipient and third UAMS chancellor to receive this honor from the auxiliary. Former chancellors the late Harry Ward, M.D., and I....
April 6, 2016 | April 6, 2016 | Unused food and food waste from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) cafeteria is no longer destined for the landfill thanks to a food recycling program that creates an eco-friendly alternative. Since October, UAMS has donated 12 tons of food waste to Organix, a national food recycling organization that...
March 31, 2016 | March 31, 2016 | One in 83 central Arkansas children, or 1.2 percent, were identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), according to a new report by the Arkansas Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (AR ADDM) Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The regional estimate is based on information collected from...
March 31, 2016 | March 31, 2016 | Beth Anderson, senior student in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2016 Alan D. Waggoner Sonographer Student Scholarship Award funded by contributions to the ASE Foundation’s 2015 Annual Appeal. In addition to a monetary award to go towards tuition costs, Beth has also been invited to...
March 31, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK – A research team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) microbiologist Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., and University of Arkansas chemist Jingyi Chen, Ph.D., has developed an alternative therapeutic approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant infections. The novel method uses a targeted nanodrug consisting of gold nano “cages” loaded with antibiotic that when irradiated...
March 30, 2016 | March 30, 2016 | A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) helped discover a new molecular “earmark” on DNA that may determine the sex of all mammals. The sex of human and all mammalian babies may be determined by a simple earmarking of an ancient virus that inserted itself...
March 29, 2016 | March 29, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center put teams of students and clinicians on the gymnasium floor March 19 as it scored its third annual March MAN-ness Health Event victory. More than 50 men and women circulated through rooms on each side of the...