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October 8, 2013

UAMS Opens, Celebrates Schmieding Caregiver Training Site in El Dorado

Ben Boulden

Oct. 8, 2013 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging today celebrated the opening of the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program in El Dorado, providing new opportunities for the elderly to stay in their homes as they age.


Oct. 22 Science Café: ‘Brain Learning — Just Do it’

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, Brain Learning — Just Do It, on Oct. 22. Panelists will discuss human learning, reasoning and memory as well as brain mechanisms and cognitive processing.


UAMS Awarded $8.7 Million Contract for Radiation Research

Ben Boulden

Oct. 8, 2013 | The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised two contract options worth approximately $8.7 million with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to proceed with advanced development of a promising treatment for use in radiological or nuclear emergency situations.


UAMS Awarded $8.7 Million for Radiation Research

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised two contract options worth approximately $8.7 million with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to proceed with advanced development of a promising treatment for use in radiological or nuclear emergency situations.


October 4, 2013

Public Health Researcher Receives Prestigious Award

Liz Caldwell

Alison Harrill, Ph.D., a new faculty member in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, arrived on campus last month with the news that she is one of five nationwide recipients of a five-year, $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation in Regulatory Science Award.


October 3, 2013

UAMS Project SEARCH Draws Praise from Governor

Nate Hinkel

Oct. 3, 2013 | Working in patient transport at UAMS Medical Center is “a blast” because he gets to help people, said Andrew Aston, an intern in the new UAMS Project SEARCH program that drew praise from Gov. Mike Beebe and others at an Oct. 1 event.


October 2, 2013

Pooja Motwani, M.D., Joins UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – Fellowship-trained hematologist and oncologist Pooja Motwani, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology and sees patients in the seventh floor clinics at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.


October 1, 2013

Gov. Beebe Cheers Young Adults Gaining Work Experience in UAMS Project SEARCH

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – A yearlong internship program for young adults with developmental disabilities is providing on-the-job training while helping the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) serve its patients, employees, students and guests.


September 30, 2013

UAMS Opens Schmieding Caregiver Training Site in El Dorado

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging today celebrated the opening of the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program in El Dorado, providing new opportunities for the elderly to stay in their homes as they age.


September 27, 2013

Workshop Exposes Students to Suturing Experience

Ben Boulden

Sept. 27, 2013 | First- and second-year UAMS medical students took a key step toward becoming cool and confident third- and fourth-year students in future operating room clinical rotations during a Sept. 9 suturing workshop.



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