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COP Career Day 2024

2024 Career Fair Connects Pharmacy Students with 16 Community Employers

April 26, 2024 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students from the Class of 2024 participated in the college’s annual Career Fair on March 29, learning more about opportunities available to them after graduation. The event, held at the Myers Student Pavilion at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, allows current pharmacy students the chance to network with other members of...

Nicholas Odom, associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, delivers a guest lecture during the afternoon session of the Arkansas Nursing Research Day conference.

UAMS Hosts Statewide Conference to Showcase Advances in Nursing Research

April 25, 2024 | Nurses and nursing students from across the state gathered April 5 on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus for a conference that highlighted recent advances in research. Organized by the UAMS College of Nursing and the UAMS Office of Continuing Education, the 2024 Arkansas Nursing Research Day conference focused on the theme...

Stephanie Gardner, UAMS provost and chief strategy officer, cuts the ribbon at a ceremony to celebrate the UAMS Child Development Center, which is scheduled to open in early May.

UAMS Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Child Development Center in Little Rock

April 24, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today for the UAMS Child Development Center in Little Rock, a 20,000-square-foot facility that is scheduled to open in early May. The center will provide services for about 200 children, from infancy through prekindergarten, of UAMS employees and students. Of those slots, 10%...

Interprofessional students assess a patient who was just wheeled in.

Interprofessional UAMS Students Monitored for Stress During Trauma Simulation

April 24, 2024 | A man whose right leg was severed below the knee, leaving a jagged and bloody bone fragment sticking out of his pants leg, was surrounded by people in blue scrubs as paramedics wheeled him into a trauma bay at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on a recent morning. The blue-clad workers —...

Tiffany Huitt

KIDNEYcon 2024 Focuses on the Present and Future of Nephrology

April 23, 2024 | More than 100 faculty, internal medicine residents, nephrologists and nephrology fellows came together April 6-8 for the ninth annual KIDNEYcon. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Nephrology, the event consisted of lectures, a reception, scientific and clinical sessions, and workshops. The event...

Dr. Anurahda Kunther

Anuradha Kunthur, M.D., Joins UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

April 22, 2024 | Anuradha Kunthur, M.D., has joined the Division of Hematology Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, where she treats patients with blood cancers and other hematological disorders. “We are thrilled that Dr. Kunther decided to join us after completing her fellowship at UAMS, said Ahmed Abuabdou, M.D.,...

APhA Student Pharmacists 2024

APhA Annual Meeting Recognizes College of Pharmacy Students, Alumni with Awards

April 22, 2024 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students and alumni received multiple awards this year at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) annual meeting, held March 22-25 in Orlando. The APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) awards and honors program is the most comprehensive recognition program for students in the profession of pharmacy. “Both our students and alumni have a...

Paul H. Phillips

Blue & You Foundation Awards UAMS $175,000 for Mobile Vision Screening Unit

April 18, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $175,000 grant from the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas to support GoVision AR: Mobile Vision Screening for Underserved Children Across Arkansas. GoVision AR, a project of the UAMS Department of Ophthalmology, aims to address the significant disparities in access...

Pathways Academy scholars try out their eclipse glasses as they learn about how to safely view the sun.

Pathways Academy Students Learn About Eclipse, Get Advice from NASA Scientist

April 17, 2024 | An April 6 event at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) gave youths an opportunity to learn about the total solar eclipse and receive career advice from a NASA scientist. About 50 students in grades 6-12 came to the UAMS campus on a sunny Saturday morning for the event hosted by Pathways Academy,...

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