AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoLeadership Shake-Up at ASUMH: Arkansas State University–Mountain Home named Dr. Jessica Camp as Dean of Technology and Health Sciences (starting May 1) and made Kristina Radivojevich’s interim Dean role permanent for Business, Arts and Sciences. Maternal Care Upgrade: Mercy Hospital in Rogers will be the first northwest Arkansas site to pilot UAMS’s new toolkit that integrates doulas into prenatal teams, with 45 staff already trained—aimed at improving continuity of care. Tech & Health Recognition: Biostatistics professor Debashis Ghosh won Boston University’s L. Adrienne Cupples Award for teaching, research, and service, including work tied to cancer genomics and AI-era research. Local Media Expansion: Deep South Today is launching Arkansas Today, bringing its regional reporting model into the state. Wildfire Training Tech: Arkansas Tech’s Wildland Fire Academy is debuting a Simtable system to help trainees practice wildfire decision-making in realistic simulations.
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