Arkansas Funeral Directors Association

Spyridoula Maraka, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, has received the 2020 Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award from the American Thyroid Association. read more >

Just as it has on American life, COVID-19 is reshaping the American way of death, disrupting yet another industry as families set small graveside services, postpone memorials and in some places turn to cremation rather than burial. read more >

Natural burials have made inroads, but many Arkansans don’t realize it’s legal to go to the grave unembalmed. read more >