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UAMS Graduates 1,186 Health Professionals
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently held commencement ceremonies to confer degrees and certificates to 1,186 students in its five colleges and graduate school. UAMS awarded a total of 1,207 degrees or certificates: 168 to students in the College of Medicine, 183 in the College of Nursing, 643 in the College of…
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Graduate School Students, Faculty Receive Accolades at Spring Awards Ceremony
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School recognized top-achieving students and faculty at its Spring Awards on April 17. The awards were held in the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building in conjunction with Student Research Day, which was rescheduled from February due to inclement weather. “Through a lot of coordination across multiple…
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UAMS Doctoral Candidate’s Research Published by Pediatric Journal
Melanie Boyd, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health and Graduate School, recently served as the first author on one of her team’s research projects. Boyd, who is in UAMS’ Health Systems and Services Research doctoral program, was the lead investigator for the…
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Graduate School Honors Top Achievers at Awards Reception
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School celebrated the successes of faculty and students at its Winter Awards Reception on Dec. 5. “This reception recognizes the accomplishments of our students and the mentors who support them,” said Graduate School Dean Sean Taverna, Ph.D., from the Helen Guinn Adams Atrium in Biomedical Research…
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Welcome to the UAMS Graduate School, home to several graduate programs leading to Graduate Certificates, MS, and PhD degrees. We are excited about our new and restructured basic science program, the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences (GPIBS), that after completing a common core curriculum, allows students to select among six different tracks that include Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology, Microbiology and Immunology, Neuroscience, Pathobiology, or Pharmacology-Toxicology and Experimental Therapeutics. In addition to GPIBS, we also have graduate programs Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Nutrition, Clinical and Translational Sciences, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Epidemiology, Health Promotion and Prevention Research, Health Systems and Services Research, Implementation Science, Nursing Science, Pharmaceutical Science, and Regulatory Science.