Category: Grants and Awards
PY4 Townsend Honored with School Service Award
April 30, 2011Fourth-year pharmacy student Davon Townsend has been named as the 2011 student recipient of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Samuel Burrus Award recognizing her outstanding contributions to the School and her community. Townsend is a dynamic member of several student organizations, including the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students, Taking Action by Service, and the Student National Pharmaceutical Association. She has been actively involved with the School’s LEAD program as a student recruitment ambassador, arranging and speaking at various pharmacy recruitment events at high schools and colleges where she encourages students explore the pharmacy profession. She also tutors two high school … Read more
School Announces 2011 Instructors, Preceptors of the Year
April 25, 2011For the second year in a row, the PharmD students of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy named Ralph Raasch, PharmD, as their choice for the 2011 Overall Instructor of the Year Award for 2011. The honor was announced during the School’s Award Day ceremony on April 17. Additional honors went to instructors of the year selected by the first-, second-, and third-year classes. Clinical assistant professor Christine Walko, PharmD, was chosen by the PY3s; associate professor Scott Singleton, PhD, by the PY2s, and clinical associate professor Adam Persky, PhD, by the PY1s. Clinical associate professor Pete Koval, PharmD, was … Read more
Photos: 2011 Awards Ceremony
April 18, 2011The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its 2011 Awards Ceremony on April 17 at the Rizzo Center. The complete list of award recipients follows the slideshow below. Click on one of the links to jump to a specific section. https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157626401321331/show/ Academic and Professional Awards TEVA Outstanding Student Award Amanda Misiewicz This award, sponsored by TEVA Pharmaceuticals, is given to the graduating student who has excelled in the study of pharmacy. T. R. Burgiss Family Award Jennifer Shealy Byrns This award is based on a student’s personal involvement in an intervention case that best illustrates the profession of pharmacy in … Read more
Three Student-Faculty Teams Named AACP/Walmart Scholars
April 15, 2011Two doctor of pharmacy students and a community pharmacy resident at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, along with their faculty mentors, have been named AACP/Walmart Scholars, marking the fifth straight year that at least one student-faculty tandem from the School has received the honor. This year’s winning student-faculty pairs are PY3 student Liz Alford and clinical assistant professor Lisa Dinkins, PharmD; PY3 student Megan E. Hartranft and clinical assistant professor Kelly Scolaro, PharmD; and PGY2 academic/community pharmacy resident Shanna K. O’Connor and clinical associate professor Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD. The Walmart Scholarships, which began in 2005, aim to strengthen the … Read more
Photos: Rho Chi Induction 2011
April 12, 2011The XI chapter of Rho Chi, the academic honor society in pharmacy, at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy inducted its 2011 members on April 2. https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpaa/sets/72157626318323291/show/ https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157626736234654/show/
Graduate Student Wooten Inducted into UNC’s Highest Honorary Society
March 30, 2011Julian Wooten, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, the oldest and highest honorary society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wooten, the first member of the Order to come from the School, was selected for induction for his dedication and contributions to the issue of HIV/AIDS on campus and throughout the state. He has worked to spread awareness about the issue among students and North Carolinians and has advocated for increased HIV education and testing. He directed a documentary about the state of … Read more
Roth Receives PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence
March 24, 2011Bryan L. Roth, PhD, a professor in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has received the PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology. The annual award honors researchers who received PhRMA Foundation grants early in their careers and then distinguished themselves through outstanding scientific and/or academic achievements. Roth will be presented with the award April 9 at a meeting of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. “This award is wonderful for me and for my lab,” says Roth, who is the Michael J. Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine and holds … Read more
Ferreri Receives APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Precepting Award
March 16, 2011The American Pharmacists Association has named Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD, as the 2011 recipient of the Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award. Ferreri was selected in recognition of her leadership as a preceptor and mentor and her dedication to the advancement of community pharmacy practice. Established in 2003, APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award recognizes a community pharmacy residency director or preceptor who has demonstrated excellence in precepting, mentoring, leadership, and community pharmacy residency program administration. Ferreri will be officially recognized at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Seattle March 25-28. A previous resident of Ferreri’s praised … Read more
Kohn Honored for His Efforts in Mentoring Junior Faculty
February 25, 2011Harold Kohn, PhD, a William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received one of two Faculty Mentoring Awards from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council. The awards, which carry a $5,000 stipend, recognize outstanding faculty members who make extra efforts to guide, mentor, and lead students or junior faculty members as they make career decisions, embark on research challenges, and enrich their lives through public service, teaching and educational opportunities. Kohn received this year’s award for faculty-to-faculty mentoring, while the award for faculty-to-student mentoring went to Sandra Martin, PhD, associate dean for research in … Read more
Brouwer, Kohn Receive Grants from NC TraCS Institute
February 15, 2011School faculty members Kim Brouwer, PharmD, PhD, and Harold Kohn, PhD, have received $10,000 grants from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. Brouwer, a William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, will use her grant for a project titled “Drug-Drug Interactions in the Liver: Effect of Ritonavir, a Transport Protein Modulator, on the Hepatic Exposure of 99m Technetium-Mebrofenin in Healthy Human Volunteers.” Kohn is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products. His project is titled “A Tale of Two Antiepileptics: … Read more