Category: Awards and Honors


Cory and Dickerson Awarded SGA’s 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Pharmacy

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Congrats to Ted Cory, PharmD, PhD, and Roland Dickerson, PharmD, who were awarded the UT Health Science Center Student Government Association Executive Committee’s 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Pharmacy. A second congratulations also goes to Dr. Dickerson, who received the Distinguished Service Professor Award from the University of Tennessee Alumni Association,… Read More

PharmD Student Darcy Doran Wins Best Practices of Professionalism Award

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Congrats to Darcy Doran, who was awarded the College of Pharmacy’s Best Practices of Professionalism Award! Darcy exhibited professional presence, altruism, and respect while participating in a Mission of Mercy event, where she demonstrated her commitment by sacrificing her time to serve underserved patients in the Memphis area. She even stayed nearly two hours past… Read More

Meet the 2025 Pharmacy Graduating Student Award Winners

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Congrats to our 2025 College of Pharmacy Graduating Student Award winners! At a ceremony on May 12, our student award winners were honored for outstanding performance in scholarship, leadership, research, and service. Over the last 3-4 years, each of them put forth a tremendous amount of effort and we were excited to celebrate their academic… Read More

Bradley Boucher, PharmD, professor emeritus, Receives Rho Chi Service Award

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Bradley Boucher, PharmD, professor emeritus at the UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, has been awarded the Rho Chi A. Wayne Pittman Outstanding Service Award. This award honors individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to the Society and those who have greatly advanced its vision and mission. Bocher is the second individual… Read More

2024 UT Health Science Center CoP Preceptors of the Year

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The Office of Experiential Learning and International Programs recently announced the 2024 Preceptors of the Year. Student pharmacists learn from preceptors in pharmacy practice experiences throughout their education, and preceptors are vital to ensuring students are practice-ready upon graduation.  2024 Preceptors of the Year Preceptor of the Year Jamie Price, PharmDBelew Drugs, Knoxville, TN Rotation… Read More

College Awards 2024 Faculty Seed Research Grants to Collier, Frederick, Yang, Singla, and Leo

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Congrats to the 2024 UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy Seed Research Grant Program awardees! The College designed the Seed Research Grants to help faculty members generate preliminary data for new areas of research initiated by the investigators. By strengthening their research foundations, our faculty members are better positioned to pursue competitive external funding,… Read More

Ishita Kathuria Awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

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Congratulations to Ishita Kathuria, a graduate student in Dr. Bhupesh Singla’s lab, on being awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship! This fellowship aims to enhance integrated research and clinical training for promising students enrolled in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree programs who aspire to careers as scientists, physician-scientists, clinician-scientists, or related fields focused… Read More

Christian Phillips Awarded 2024 College of Pharmacy Impact Award

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Congratulations to the College of Pharmacy recipients and finalists of the 2024 UT Health Science Center Impact Awards on December 13! A special congratulations goes to Christian Phillips, Class of 2025, who was awarded the College of Pharmacy’s Student Impact Award, and to Rachel Austin, Class of 2025, who was the runner-up. We would also… Read More

Wei Li, PhD Named Innovator of the Year at UT Research Foundation Awards

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Congratulations to UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy distinguished professor Wei Li, PhD, for being named the 2024 UT Research Foundations Innovator of the Year! In addition to Dr. Li’s achievement, the ceremony highlighted two licensed technologies from faculty at the College of Pharmacy: one by Wei Li, Jianxiong Jiang, PhD, and Zhongzhi “Jim”… Read More

Darcy Doran Selected as One of only ten students Nationwide to Present Research at the Inaugural AACP PharmD Research Showcase

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Darcy Doran, a P2 student, has been selected as one of only ten students nationwide to present their research at the inaugural AACP PharmD Research Showcase! The PharmD Research Showcase is a webinar that features presentations from ten PharmD students. Each student delivers a five-minute talk (four minutes for the presentation and one minute for… Read More