Category: Students
2008 Graduate Student Awards
January 27, 2008The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its Graduate Achievement Banquet on January 26. UNC-CH Graduate School Scholarships Two first-year doctoral students from the School were recipients of merit assistantships. The UNC Graduate School awards merit assistantships to promising incoming graduate students, with the objective of maintaining and increasing the quality of graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill. The School’s recipients are: Beth Vasiveich, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics Christina Won, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics The UNC Graduate School also awards a few competitive merit fellowships each year to incoming graduate students with exceptional potential. The Royster Society of Fellows … Read more
UNC Students to Present Posters at AAPS Annual Meeting
November 7, 2007Students from the UNC School of Pharmacy will present posters at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meetings and Expositions at the San Diego Convention Center on November 13-14. The students are: Koji Abe, PhD — Visiting Scholar Faculty adviser: Kim Brouwer, PhD Division: Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics Title of Abstract: “In Vitro Biliary Clearance of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers and HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors in Sandwich-Cultured Rat Hepatocytes — Comparison to In Vivo Biliary Clearance” Session Date: Tuesday, November 13 Session Time: 1:00-5:00 p.m. Location: Exhibit Hall Dan Bow, PhD Faculty adviser: Kim Brouwer, PhD Division: Pharmacotherapy and Experimental … Read more
Three Graduate Students to be Recognized at AAPS Annual Meeting
October 12, 2007Three graduate students from the UNC School of Pharmacy will be recognized at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting in San Diego, California, on November 11-15. Dongmei Lu will receive the Ligand Binding Award. She will also participate in the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Biotechnology with a presentation titled “Aerosol Delivery of Recombinant Antigen 85B in Microparticle Vaccine Systems for Protection Against Tuberculosis.” Shyh-dar Li is the recipient of the Lipid-based Drug Delivery Award and will participate at the 2007 AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Technologies. His presentation is titled “Targeted Delivery of … Read more
UNC Students, Professor, SNPhA Chapter Honored at Convention
August 14, 2007Members of the UNC School of Pharmacy received numerous honors at the annual meetings of the National Pharmaceutical Association and the Student National Pharmaceutical Association in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 20-24. National Scholarships for Academic Excellence Five of the twenty $1,000 national scholarships for academic excellence went to students in the School’s doctor of pharmacy program. The students and their scholarships are: [table “” not found /]
SNPhA Boka Hadzija Scholarship Schaffer also was the recipient of the new $1,500 SNPhA Boka Hadzija Award. The SNPhA established the scholarship to honor Hadzija, PhD, a professor in the School’s Division … Read more
PharmD Student Lisa Adams Receives RESPy Award
August 3, 2007Lisa Adams, a fourth-year professional student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, received a Respect, Excellence, and Service in Pharmacy award from Pharmacy Times magazine. Adams, who will be featured in an upcoming issue of Pharmacy Times, has been an active volunteer in the community, including service at UNC Children’s Hospital, Alterra Woods Retirement Community, the Piedmont Community Health Clinic, and various other clinics and health fairs. She also has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and the Green County Special Olympics. In addition, she has worked in community pharmacies for almost nine years. Pharmacy Times, in conjunction with Walmart, established … Read more
Kappa Epsilon Honors UNC Faculty, Chapter
August 1, 2007Kappa Epsilon honored two UNC School of Pharmacy faculty members and the UNC Lambda chapter at the fraternity’s 46th annual national convention on July 25-29 in Charlotte. Jennifer Stegall-Zanation, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor in the Office of Professional Education, was recognized for her contributions as convention chair. Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, received the Unicorn Award, which recognizes Kappa Epsilon alumni members’ sustained service to the organization. The UNC Lambda chapter received the award for Outstanding Collegiate Chapter, as well as an honorable mention for the Best Service … Read more
Morieux Awarded NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
June 20, 2007Pierre Morieux, a graduate student in the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has been awarded an NIH Predococtoral Fellowship. Morieux’s project, “Chemical Probes to Discover the Lacosamide Drug Targets: Synthesis and Evaluation,” was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for up to three years at $27,000 a year. “These awards are highly competitive, and it is a real honor for Pierre and the School to receive this fellowship,” says Harold Kohn, the Kenan Chair in Medicinal Chemistry.
Doctoral Student Earns AFPE Fellowship
May 17, 2007Laura Bonifacio, a second-year doctoral student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a $6,000 award from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Bonifacio, who is in Assistant Professor Mike Jarstfer’s lab in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, earned an AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The one-year award, which is given to a maximum of 70 doctoral students annually, is renewable after the first year. The fellowships support the most exceptional doctoral students during the advanced, research phase of their course of study and enable them to focus intensively on industry-oriented subjects, such as … Read more
Two PharmD Students, Mentors Earn Travel Scholarships
May 14, 2007Two students in the UNC School of Pharmacy and their faculty mentors have received travel scholarships to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting and Seminars. Irene La (mentored by Kim Leadon, MEd) and Travis Heath (mentored by Wendy Cox, BCPS) earned the scholarships through the 2007 Walmart Annual Conference Scholarship Program. Fifty-one student-mentor pairs received the honor. Each pair gets a $1,000 scholarship to help cover registration and other meeting expenses for the student and faculty mentor to participate in this year’s AACP annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, from July 14 to 18. La and … Read more
Raed Khashan Wins CCG Excellence Award
April 13, 2007Raed Khashan, a doctoral student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has won a Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Computers in Chemistry. Khashan, who is in the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, is one of five recipients for the award. He will receive $1,150 and a copy of CCG’s Molecular Operating Environment software with a one-year license. The winners will present their work at the ACS national meeting in Boston on August 21. Khashan, who obtained his master’s degree in pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, entered the … Read more