Program News

A profile of our student Shannon Rose was published on the Graduate School Web site at http://www.uams.edu/update/absolutenm/templates/news2003v2.asp?articleid=8974&zoneid=29.

Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2010. 

Click here to view a composite and list of 2009-10 students.

2008-09
Congratulations to Kevin Kim, Shannon Rose, and Omar Rahal who will serve as Graduate Student Association officers for 2009-10. 

Congratulations to the following students who won awards at the 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium held May1, 2009.

Senior Division
1st Shashank Jain
2nd Rawad Hodeify

Junior Division
1st Tanecia Mitchell
2nd Shimul Chowdhury

 

Congratulations to Omar Rahal who received a UAMS 2008 Graduate Student Research Funds grant and a 2008 ACHRI Student and Clinical Staff Research Grant.

Congratulations to Sherin Boctor who was awarded a Neurobehavioral Teratology Society Conference Award for the Monterey, California 2008 meeting.

Congratulations to Sherin Boctor, Rawad Hodeify, Anna Mazur, and Omar Rahal who received UAMS Graduate School travel awards during 2008. 

2007-08
Congratulations to Lindsay Pack and Shannon Rose who will serve as Graduate Student Association officers for 2008-09. 

The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program graduated our first graduates on May 17, 2008.  Lauren Bailey and Cassie Jackson received their M.S. degrees. 

Congratulations to Shashank Jain and Rawad Hodeify who placed 1st and 2nd in the 1st annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium held March 14, 2008.

2006-07
Congratulations to IBS students Lauren Bailey and Shashank Jain who are Graduate Student Association officers for 2007-08.

Congratulations to Lindsay Bradshaw who won third place overall for graduate student oral presentations at the 91st meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science.

Congratulations and thanks go to Melda Onal, Sherin Boctor, and Shashank Jain for presenting posters at the UAMS COM Student Research Days 2007. 

Congratulations to Tanecia Mitchell for being selected to attend the American Physiology Society Short Course "Making Scientific Presentations: Critical First Skills", March 8-11, 2007 in Bethesda, MD.  She had her travel and meeting expenses paid by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Thanks to Lauren Bailey who headed up an effort to adopt a Head Start classroom for Christmas as part of the Little Rock Head Start Program.  All the IBS students contributed to the effort to buy and distribute gifts to this good cause.

Click here to view pictures from the IBS picnic held August 26, 2006.