Several student groups on UTHSC College of Pharmacy’s Knoxville Campus joined together to collect supplies to benefit those effected by Hurricane Harvey. Supplies were dropped off at Remote Area Medical (RAM) Headquarters and then loaded on a truck leaving for the Houston area with a medical mission team. Student organizations on all three campuses have… Read More
UTHSC College of Pharmacy Class of ‘05 graduate Andrew Finney, PharmD, recently received the 2017 Rising Star award from the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at Volunteer State Community College. Finney owns Perkins Drugs in Gallatin, Tenn. The pharmacy was also honored as the Small Business Administration Tennessee Rural Owned Business of the Year.… Read More
P4 student Lauren Ladd received an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Travel Award to attend the annual meeting in Phoenix this October. Student members of ACCP who are full-time pharmacy students pursuing their first professional pharmacy degree are invited to apply for the award. Ladd submitted an application along with an essay and two letters… Read More
The College of Pharmacy 2017 class of P1 students arrived on campus for orientation starting on Monday, August 7. The incoming students received presentations from members of various student organizations, got tours of the campus facilities, received CPR training and attended social events around the city of Memphis at Rendezvous BBQ and Loflin Yard.
The Psi Chapter of Kappa Psi, located at the UTHSC College of Pharmacy, was recognized nationally as one of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Inc.’s Top Performing Chapters. The award signifies that the chapter has completed at least 85 percent of the criteria from the annual chapter report. Fewer than 25 chapters nationally were given the… Read More
The Omega Chapter of Phi Delta Chi, located at the UTHSC College of Pharmacy, was named the second-best chapter in the nation out of over 100 chapters at the fraternity’s national meeting on Aug. 5. Brotherhood, leadership, service, scholarship and chapter publication were all considered. The chapter was awarded first place for brotherhood and fourth… Read More
Three current College of Pharmacy students, Zachary Coleman, Misha McCleary, and Alexis Joneswere awarded a 2017 Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy Scholarship. Cardinal Health is committed to supporting programs such as the one at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center that progresses the science and practice of nuclear pharmacy. Forty-Four students from the UTHSC College… Read More
The Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) hosted their national meeting in Las Vegas, NV this summer. At this year’s meeting Rachel Barr (P4-Knoxville) was appointed SNPhA’s National Operation Immunizations Chair. She will serve a one-year term and her responsibilities include promoting and encouraging all of the SNPhA chapters to participate in immunization efforts within the community through… Read More
Pallabita Chowdhury, MS, a third year PhD student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, was named the winner of the Biomaterials Day Poster Award at Biomaterials Day on the campus of Vanderbilt University. She was selected to give a “Rapid Fire Talk” on her abstract titled “Docetaxel Loaded Magnetic Nanoparticles for Overcoming Drug Resistance in… Read More
Jeffrey M. Rybak, PharmD, Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Rogers Lab, was recently awarded an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Research Institute Futures Grant for Fellows and Junior Investigators. The ACCP RI Futures Grants are mentored awards designed to provide support for the development of research skills among fellows and early-career ACCP members… Read More
