Category: Academic Programs
PY4 Giddens Receives Future Pharmacist Award
October 28, 2010Adrienne Giddens, a fourth-year doctor of pharmacy student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received the Future Pharmacist Award through the Next Generation Pharmacist Award Program. The program, sponsored by Parata Systems and Pharmacy Times, honors pharmacists, technicians, and pharmacy student who embrace and embody the future of pharmacy. The Future Pharmacist Award recognizes a pharmacy student who demonstrates spirit and passion for the profession primarily through academic achievement, along with industry advocacy, patient advocacy, technology innovation, civic leadership, or environmentalism. Clinical assistant professor Lisa Dinkins, PharmD, who nominated Giddens for the award, says Giddens has worked to … Read more
Szewczyk, Reynolds to Compete in National Clinical Skills Competition
October 26, 2010Fourth-year doctor of pharmacy students Brittany Reynolds and Jessica Szewczyk will represent the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the national Clinical Skills Competition in December. The duo earned the honor by winning the School competition on October 23, beating out six other teams. They will compete in the national contest at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition on December 5-9 in Anaheim, California.
School, UNC Hospitals Join Forces to Better Serve Patients, Students
October 17, 2010The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is teaming up with UNC Hospitals to expand the patient-care, education, and research efforts of both institutions. The Partnership in Patient Care will combine the resources of the School and the hospital to increase the pharmacy services available to patients at UNC Hospitals, the amount of experiential education that pharmacy students receive at UNC, and the amount of point-of-care research being conducted. “This partnership builds on the relationship the School already has with the hospital to better serve both our patients and our students,” says Bob Blouin, dean of the School. “Patients will benefit … Read more
School’s PhD Program Places Highly in NRC Ratings
September 30, 2010The PhD program in pharmaceutical sciences at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is highly rated in a new assessment conducted by the National Research Council. The rankings were part of the NRC’s long-anticipated release of assessments for research doctorate programs at 212 U.S. colleges and universities, the first conducted since 1995 and only the third ever undertaken. The NRC evaluated more than 5,000 programs in sixty-two fields. The results were released on September 28. The NRC represents the national academies, which advise the federal government in all areas of science and technology. UNC submitted information about fifty-three programs as … Read more
Photos: New ECSU Pharmacy Complex
September 28, 2010Students enrolled in the UNC-Chapel Hill Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership program at Elizabeth City State University officially moved into their new academic home as a new $28 million Pharmacy Complex at the ECSU campus was unveiled on September 27, 2010. The 52,500-square-foot building, whose architecture was inspired by the idea of an apothecary chest, overlooks an artificial pond and contains classrooms and labs organized around a two-story atrium. The first floor contains general science labs, while the second floor houses the IV simulation lab, the compounding lab, a library, and community outreach facilities such as the drug information center. The … Read more
Med Chem Students Earn CINF-FIZ Scholarships
September 7, 2010Rima Hajjo and Hao Tang, both graduate students in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, were granted this year’s CINF-FIZ Scholarship for Scientific Excellence. The German-American sponsored prize jointly awarded by FIZ CHEMIE and CINF, the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society, honors considerable contributions of graduate and postdoctoral students to the development of computer-supported chemical information sciences. The award is designed to advance computer-aided preparation and the use of chemical knowledge as well as to foster students’ involvement in CINF. This year’s winners of the CINF-FIZ Scholarship for Scientific Excellence were announced during the … Read more
PY2 Student Tackett Receives NC TraCS $2K grant
August 21, 2010Zach Tackett, a second-year doctor of pharmacy student at the School, has received a $2,000 grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute to study a potential new drug target to help treat MRSA staph infections, which kill more people in the United States each year than AIDS. The award will fund a study of MdeA, an efflux pump in the cell membrane of Staphylococcus aureus, the bacterium that is the most common cause of staph infections. Efflux pumps are transporter proteins that pump toxic substances and antibiotics out of the cell. That function makes them key players in … Read more
Photos: PharmD Orientation 2010
August 20, 2010Photos from orientation for the Class of 2014 on August 20 https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157624766734238/show/
Weeks Named as Partnership Director at Elizabeth City
August 17, 2010Latasha Weeks, PharmD, has been named the new Elizabeth City State University director of the UNC-ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program. Weeks is a former clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and recently completed a community pharmacy residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I very much look forward to working with Latasha,” say Pamela U. Joyner, associate dean of professional education at the School. “The broad scope of her professional experiences, her creativity, her passion for students, and her leadership experience make her a … Read more
Asheville Satellite Will Enroll Students in 2011, Almond to Head Program
July 12, 2010The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will begin enrolling students in a new satellite pharmacy-education program based at the University of North Carolina Asheville in the fall of 2011. “The past two months have been exciting for the School as we have pushed ahead with our plans for expanding our pharmacy-education program,” said Robert Blouin, PharmD, dean of the School. “We are now far enough along in our preparations that we can confirm that UNC-Chapel Hill pharmacy students in Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City will be joined by a new group … Read more