A new collaborative residency program in psychiatry offered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Baptist Health has received initial accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team
May 10, 20212:10 pm WIZ KIDS: (From left) Greenwood High s Anna Johnson, Episcopal Collegiate s Adanna Mogbo and Springdale High s Ryan Espejo.
The 2021
Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the
Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. Read on for stories of inspiration in these troubled times. And see lists of All-Star finalists and nominees.
Traditionally, the All-Star team is made up of 10 boys and 10 girls, but this year’s class of boys was so strong our judges, retired school counselor Sam Blair and nonprofit leader and former State Board of Education member Mireya Reith, insisted on 11 boys.
Rock Region METRO is offering free rides to COVID-19 vaccinations starting Monday, March 8. Author: THV11 Digital Updated: 5:49 AM CST March 9, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Rock Region METRO is offering free rides to COVID-19 vaccinations starting Monday, March 8 through May 31, 2021, with a possible program extension later.
“As more vaccinations become available, it’s critical to have Arkansans who seek a COVID-19 vaccination be able to get that vaccine with few to no barriers,” said Charles Frazier, Rock Region METRO chief executive officer. “The METRO team has been providing essential public transit service to the central Arkansas community before and during the pandemic, and we are happy to do what we can to remove transportation barriers and assist the state in its vaccination efforts.”