PharmNews - Fall 2016
Ninh (Irene) M. La-Beck, Pharm.D., an assistant professor at Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯βs School of Pharmacy campus in Abilene, has been named the 2016 recipient of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy's New Investigator Award.
The School of Pharmacy welcomed the Class of 2020 at the annual White Coat Ceremony in Abilene (Aug. 7) and Amarillo (Aug. 14). The incoming students received their traditional white pharmacy coats, recited the Oath of a Pharmacist for the first time and signed the Pharmacist Code of Conduct.
School of Pharmacy students in Amarillo and Abilene participated in hands-on exercises to encourage teamwork in the upcoming school year August 9 at their respective campuses.
Several Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ employees, including Thomas Parker, Pharm.D. from the School of Pharmacy, were honored at the Texans Caring for Texans award luncheon recently.
Two School of Pharmacy faculty members in Amarillo recently received good news.
Kshitij Verma has been selected by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists to receive a Graduate Student Research Award in the Drug Discovery and Development Interface.
The School of Pharmacy ranked 16th nationally in the 2016 Top Graduate Schools by SR Education Group. Overall, Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ ranked first in the same survey results.
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas announced September 14 it was awarding a $2.5 million grant to Richard Leff, Pharm.D., and a group of researchers from the Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ School of Pharmacy campus in Dallas
Students in Amarillo got together for a School of Pharmacy back-to-school picnic recently.
A handful of new faculty members are joining the Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ School of Pharmacy this semester! Left to right: Siva Koganti (Abilene), Maegan Whitworth (Amarillo), Becky Schoen (Dallas/Fort Worth), Taryn Bainum (Amarillo).
PharmNews is a quarterly electronic newsletter produced by the Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ Office of Communications for stakeholders of the School of Pharmacy.