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October 12, 2017
UAMS Sets SeniorNet November Computer Classes for People 50 and Up
Oct. 12, 2017 | Three computer workshops — One-on-One Computer Support, Basic Facebook, and Texting and Typing on Your iPhone — and tw computer classes — Fundamentals for Computers and Introduction to Computers — will be taught in November for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald…
Researchers Awarded $8 Million for Anti-Methamphetamine Medication Study
Oct. 12, 2017 | Led by UAMS researchers, a new clinical study called STAMPOUT aims to help a drug user stay in treatment by keeping the effects of the drug from going into the brain. This month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded the InterveXion/UAMS research team an $8…
October 11, 2017
Annual Gala for Life Raises $942,000 for UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Oct. 11, 2017 | The bright lights of New York City shone on Little Rock on Sept. 15 when the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its 22nd annual Gala for Life. The black-tie event, held at Little Rock’s Statehouse Convention Center, brought together 740 supporters from throughout Arkansas and raised about $942,000 for…
UAMS Translational Research Institute Receives $3.5 Million to Help Speed Discovery
Oct. 11, 2017 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute has received funding for a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) totaling $3,497,558 through Aug. 31, 2018. The 11 months of funding comes from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It will enable UAMS to continue its…
UAMS Tours The World at International Fest, Caps Diversity Month
Oct. 11, 2017 | On most days the ground floor concourse in the Education II Building is a thoroughfare and gathering place for students, but Sept. 28 it became a mode for world travels. UAMS faculty, staff and students who attended transformed into globetrotting tourists and sightseers. It began in China, sampling local cuisine, admiring…
October 10, 2017
UAMS’ Pao-Feng Tsai, Ph.D., R.N., Sarah Rhoads, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., Inducted as American Academy of Nursing Fellows
Oct. 10, 2017 | Pao-Feng Tsai, Ph.D., R.N., professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing and Sarah Rhoads, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., director of education in the UAMS Center for Distance Health, were inducted Oct. 7 as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. The American Academy of Nursing has more…
October 6, 2017
Adult Vaccinations to Be Given Oct. 20 at the UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging
Oct. 6, 2017 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Schmieding Caregiver Training Program and Walgreens are working together to provide adult vaccinations Oct. 20 at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. From 9-11 a.m. on the second floor of the Reynolds Institute, 629 Jack Stephens Drive, adult vaccinations will be…
Myeloma Patient’s Loved Ones Roll ‘Ride for Research’ in Her Honor
Oct. 6, 2017 | Carolyn Barber, of El Dorado, waited as six of her loved ones – two daughters, a son, two granddaughters and a great-grandson – each rode 10 miles in the recent UAMS Myeloma Institute’s inaugural Ride for Research across central Arkansas in honor of the 75-year-old’s battle against myeloma. “It was wonderful,”…
October 5, 2017
UAMS Myeloma Institute Team Goes the Distance to Fight Cancer
Oct. 5, 2017 | Ritchie Brown of Little Rock has had two stem-cell transplants since December 2016. But you certainly couldn’t tell it Sept. 23 as he rode his bicycle 50 miles to raise awareness of multiple myeloma, the cancer he has been fighting with the help of the UAMS Myeloma Institute. Brown, who is…
October 4, 2017
Researchers, Students Urged to Become Science Advocates
Oct. 4, 2017 | By being effective advocates for science funding, researchers can help the U.S. lead the world in science and help their own careers, UAMS students and faculty were told at a recent lecture. “The public does not understand what we do and they don’t understand why we do it,” said Richard L….
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