Tracie Dungan
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Gift establishes teaching clinic for specialties
FAYETTEVILLE — A $435,000 private gift to the state’s medical school will provide students and physician residents at its Northwest Arkansas satellite campus with more clinical experience working alongside doctors in specialties Continue reading...
Tobacco in ads, art seen to draw history
SPRINGDALE — In her job educating the public on smoking prevention, Brenda Patterson has devised a slideshow illustrating how tobacco has been marketed from roughly the 1800s to modern times. Continue reading...
Drive-By Shooting Reported
SPRINGDALE — Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.
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Official in Tennessee plans appeal of ruling that allows sale of art
BENTONVILLE — The Tennessee attorney general’s office plans to appeal a decision made late last year by that state’s appeals court that upholds a Bentonville museum’s bid to buy a half-share of a prized art collection from a Nashville university but overturns a directive that some of the money must be used to maintain the collection. Continue reading...
Appeal planned in Crystal Bridges' bid for Fisk collection
The Tennessee attorney general’s office plans to appeal a decision made late last year by that state’s appeals court that upheld a Bentonville, Ark., museum’s desire to buy a half-share of a prized art collection from a Nashville university but which overturned a directive involving an endowment.
On Monday, Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. filed an application with the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville seeking permission for his office to appeal the Tennessee Court of Appeals’ Nov. 30, 2011, mixed ruling. Continue reading...
Groups form better-health partnership
Mercy joins Children’s, state
Public and private health leaders in Arkansas believe the way health is taught in the schools has been an underlying cause of the state’s poor performance on various wellness rankings for children. Continue reading...
Children’s study unfolding in state
U.S. health research spans to age 21
BENTONVILLE — In the year since researchers began recruiting pilot-phase subjects for the Arkansas portion of the long-term National Children’s Study, they have exceeded the number by 50 percent, a co-lead investigator said Wednesday. Continue reading...
Area duo makes supercomputer
SPRINGDALE — An auto mechanic turned technical-school instructor and truck driver turned student are using a homemade supercomputer to join nearly a half-million others using their computers’ down time to help find cures for diseases like HIV, cancer, Alzheimer’s and malaria. Continue reading...
Donation allows UAMS students extra simulation
FAYETTEVILLE — In her acting role as a patient for medical students, Betty Anderson likes to throw the students some curves so they get a realistic taste of what it’s like to diagnose someone. Continue reading...
Designer brings ‘wearable art’ to museum staff
When leaders at Crystal Bridges were contemplating the uniforms its gallery staff would wear, the standard “gray pant and navy blazer” didn’t seem a good fit in a place where inspiration and imagination are emphasized, one administrator recalled. Continue reading...
