Robert McGehee

May 10, 2022

UAMS Graduate School Recognizes Students, Faculty, Staff at Spring Awards Reception

Linda Haymes

The Graduate School recognized more than 30 students, faculty and staff at a recent Spring Awards Reception.

The Graduate School at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recognized more than 30 students, as well as faculty and staff on April 21. “Today kicks off my favorite season of the year, the commencement season,” Robert McGehee, Ph.D., dean of the UAMS Graduate School, told the crowd gathered in the Biomedical II…

August 26, 2021

Graduate School Welcomes New Students

Linda Haymes

Campus representatives from areas including the UAMS Library, Student Financial Services, the Student Success Center and the Graduate Student Association visited with the new students at various tables during a recent 90-minute fair.

As the fall semester began, Robert McGehee, Ph.D., dean of the UAMS Graduate School, and other campus leaders recently welcomed new graduate students with an orientation on the first floor of the I. Dodd Wilson building. It was the first such in-person orientation the Graduate School has held since 2019. Nearly 30 of this year’s…

September 25, 2019

Research Induction Ceremony Launches Graduate Students’ Path to Ph.D.

Linda Haymes

Twenty-five UAMS Graduate School students from seven programs received white lab coats Sept. 16, signaling their readiness to begin doctoral research.

Twenty-five UAMS Graduate School students from seven programs received white lab coats Sept. 16, signaling their readiness to begin doctoral research. The donning of new research coats embroidered with their name to celebrate their pursuit of doctoral degrees may seem like a transformative moment happening in an instant. In reality, a lot of work took…

November 6, 2017

Collaboration, Practice, Exposure: Graduate Symposium Offers Plenty

Benjamin Waldrum

Dustyn Barnette, a third-year graduate student, discusses his research with Jason Stumhofer, Ph.D.

Nov. 6, 2017 | Each student at the UAMS Graduate Student Association Research Symposium was prepared, organized and confident – and maybe a little nervous. Twenty-nine UAMS Graduate School students participated in the Oct. 27 daylong event, held in the Helen Guinn Adams Atrium and the Rayford Auditorium of the Biomedical Research buildings. Poster presentations…

April 29, 2015

Health Systems Topic of McGehee Lectureship

Spencer Watson

April 29, 2015 | The UAMS Graduate School welcomed Maureen Smith, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, April 15 as the fourth annual presenter of the Robert E. McGehee, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship in Biomedical Sciences.