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Young Patients Explore Life Cycle of Butterflies
There are roughly 750 species of butterfly in the United States. That fact may come as a surprise to most people, but probably not to the young patients on the Child Diagnostic Unit in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. The young children on the inpatient unit recently spent four weeks learning a great deal about…
April 21, 2023
College of Pharmacy Students Recognized with 112 Scholarships at Ceremony
More than 100 UAMS College of Pharmacy students received scholarships in a ceremony held April 10. The annual tradition marked an opportunity for students to be recognized and for some, to meet the donors supporting their education. The college also announced the creation of three new scholarships, each representing a graduating class. “Each year, through…
April 20, 2023
Arkansas Farm Bureau Pledges $500,000 to Support UAMS’ Statewide Health Career Recruitment, Education Efforts
LITTLE ROCK — To mark the 35th anniversary of the Medical Applications of Science for Health (MASH) program, a summer enrichment camp that allows high school students to learn about health career opportunities, Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation pledged a gift of $500,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses, creating the…
UAMS Professor Examines Organization’s Goal of U.S. Becoming the Healthiest Nation
A professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health wrote an editorial examining the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) goal of making the United States the healthiest nation by 2030. Namvar Zohoori, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, a professor in the college’s Department of Epidemiology, wrote a paper…
April 19, 2023
UAMS Awarded $15 Million for Study Comparing Approaches to Postpartum Care
FAYETTEVILLE — A research team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been approved for a five-year, $15 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the best mechanisms for postpartum follow up with new mothers to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. Maternal mortality rates in the United…
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UAMS’ Laura James, M.D., Re-Elected to National Science Board
LITTLE ROCK — Laura James, M.D., director of the UAMS Translational Research Institute, has been elected to a second term on the national Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Board of Directors. She joins 13 other directors at large from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program institutions across…
April 17, 2023
2023 Seeds of Science Awards Support Promising Cancer Research
The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute awarded $850,000 in grants to 15 cancer researchers through Seeds of Science, the Institute’s intramural funding program. The long-standing program provides support for promising cancer research in its early stages, as well as studies that unite teams of researchers to tackle the most pressing issues related to cancer…
Pharmacy Students Find Opportunities at 2023 Career Fair
Seventy UAMS College of Pharmacy students got to mingle and meet with more than a dozen employers across the state at the 2023 Career Fair, held April 5 at the Rachel Rutherford Gymnasium at Pulaski Academy. The event, geared toward pharmacy students in their fourth and final year, was an opportunity to meet other members…
50 Years Later, Prevention Still Key for Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center
In 1973, the UAMS College of Pharmacy created the Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center — a free, statewide resource to supply rapid, sophisticated and up-to-date poison and drug information. Fifty years later, that mission still resonates just as strongly. “A centralized poison center for the state of Arkansas began as an idea over 50…
April 14, 2023
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