AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoRural Health Research: UAMS has launched a three-year, NIH-funded project to find better ways to reduce teen nicotine use in rural Arkansas. The roughly $711,000 grant supports work on a problem affecting about 19% of Arkansas high schoolers, according to a 2025 survey. Smarter Care Access: UAMS is partnering with Intuitive Health on a 24/7 Little Rock facility combining emergency and urgent care, with on-site lab services and imaging. Construction is expected to take 12 to 18 months. Food and Animal Science: Arkansas State researchers received $1.3 million in USDA funding toward a $2.6 million project to expand food and animal-health research, including testing animal feed for contaminants and nutrients. Regional Research Computing: Oklahoma State’s new Cimarron supercomputer is open to researchers across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas, adding shared computing capacity for the region’s universities.
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