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UAMS Allied Health College Celebrates New Home

Oct. 9, 2009 | Oct. 9, 2009 | The College of Health Related Professions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) found that 38 years of patience can pay off when most of the college’s 17 programs recently moved into a common home.

UAMS Doctoral Candidates Receive White Coats

Oct. 7, 2009 | Oct. 7, 2009 | White coats were distributed to 32 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) graduate students marking “the defining moment” of their young careers as a full house of mentors, faculty and family members watched.

UAMS Marks Constitution Day With Two Lectures

Sept. 29, 2009 | Sept. 30, 2009 | Constitution Day was twice as nice in 2009 as the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) marked the occasion with back-to-back lectures on the document that has served for more than two centuries as the supreme law of the United States.

UAMS Ranked Among Top 25 by InformationWeek for Use of Technology

Sept. 23, 2009 | Sept. 24, 2009 | Use of technology to improve data-gathering and sharing in clinical research put the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) among the nation’s most innovative users of technology, according to the annual ranking by business technology magazine InformationWeek.

UAMS Founder Roscoe Jennings’ Descendents Donate Microscope

Sept. 22, 2009 | Sept. 22, 2009| As a Confederate surgeon in the Civil War, Roscoe Jennings, one of the founders of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was sent to Helena and Vicksburg, Miss., to establish field hospitals.

UAMS Respiratory Care Program Named among Nation’s Best

Sept. 11, 2009 | Sept. 11, 2009 | The respiratory care program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently netted praise from the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care education (CoARC) as one of the top programs in the country.

UAMS Receives $2.3 Million for Cancer Nanomedicine

Sept. 8, 2009 | Sept. 8, 2009 | A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has been awarded $2.3 million in three grants to further groundbreaking developments in the prevention of lethal cancer metastasis and take his team’s findings to the first clinical trial of its kind.

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