2007 Another Year of Growth at UAMS

As in 2006, construction and expansion continued to dominate attention on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus in 2007 as buildings rose from the ground and plans were made for new projects.

The ongoing, multi-project expansion of the UAMS campus saw the topping out of a 540,000-square-foot hospital addition and the 100,000-square-foot Psychiatric Research Institute in June 2007. Later in the year, ground was broken for a 12-floor, 300,000-square-foot expansion to the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, renamed in memory of the former lieutenant governor who died of a rare bone marrow disease in 2006. 

At the Cancer Institute renaming ceremony, it was announced that the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, named for Rockefeller’s father – a former Arkansas governor – had made a more than $12 million gift to the Cancer Institute to in part fund a new leukemia/ lymphoma program.

In other campus construction projects, an energy plant to serve the new construction and provide emergency backup power to all UAMS patient care operations also opened while construction of a new education building got under way.

In his State of the Campus presentation in November 2007, UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson said the institution had continued a period of “phenomenal” growth and change through the year.

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Preschoolers from the UAMS Head Start program at King sing carols for Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.

UAMS Celebrates Holidays with Head Start Classes

The sounds of Christmas, in the form of children singing holiday songs, echoed through the halls of UAMS recently, signs of a season of giving.

Patients, visitors and employees stopped to hear the preschool students in the UAMS Head Start program at the King site as they sang songs like “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “Jingle Bells” in the halls of UAMS Medical Center. The young choir also caroled Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D. and UAMS College of Medicine Dean Debra Fiser, M.D.

As the children filed into see the chancellor, he asked how old they were. “I’m 4!” yelled one. “I’m 5!” yelled another as Wilson and other UAMS staff and employees laughed at their youngsters’ enthusiasm.

Exuberant jingling accompanied “Jingle Bells” as the singers rang handheld bells before launching into the Spanish holiday carol “Feliz Navidad.” The children, wearing Santa hats or elf hats, passed out candy canes and presented Wilson with a Christmas tree poster signed by all.

“That’s wonderful. Thank you very much,” Wilson said between songs.

UAMS, under the direction of Mary Kaye McKinney, operates all 22 Head Start and Early Head Start sites in Pulaski County. Students from the various sites take turns caroling at UAMS each year.

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