Walgreens helps school increase diversity

With funding from Walgreens, the School of Pharmacy is continuing an initiative that is dramatically increasing diversity among its student body. The funds enable the school to provide students at Jackson's Murrah High School and Bailey Magnet High School with opportunities to learn about the pharmacy profession and to allocate a scholarship to one of those students.

Allen Receptions

Feb. 16 — Oxford, 6 p.m., The Inn at Ole Miss

Feb. 21 — Jackson (being rescheduled)

March 6 — Germantown, Tenn., 6 p.m., home of Joyce and Tim Folse, 8543 Washington Way

March 26 — Hattiesburg (being rescheduled)

March 27 — Gulfport (being rescheduled)

Save these Dates

Feb. 12 — MPhA Mid-Winter Meeting, 12:30 p.m., School of Pharmacy, Oxford

Feb. 23 — Instructional and Research Facility Dedication, 1:30 p.m., UMMC

Feb. 24 — Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture by Susan B. Shurin, acting director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 11 a.m., Ford Center

Feb. 26 — MPhA Mid-Winter Meeting, 12:30 p.m., School of Pharmacy, UMMC

March 9 — APhA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Alumni reception is 5 p.m.

March 30-31 — Pharmacy Alumni Weekend. Contact Scott Thompson

Researcher named Pitt 'Legacy Laureate'

Mahmoud A. ElSohly was named one of the University of Pittsburgh's 16 new Legacy Laureates, alumni recognized for their outstanding personal and professional accomplishments.

Pharmaceutics chair elected to AAPS leadership

Michael A. Repka has been elected vice chair of the Formulation Design and Development Section of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

School honored for transformative community service

Lauren Bloodworth (left), Catherine Black, Rosemary Call<br/> and Leigh Ann Ross

Lauren Bloodworth (left), Catherine Black, Rosemary Call
and Leigh Ann Ross

For its life-changing work in 12 Mississippi Delta communities, the School of Pharmacy has won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's 2011-12 Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award. AACP's selection committee was impressed by the school's many community-based initiatives that are providing innovative pharmacy, disease education and other services in 11 counties of the impoverished region.
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Meet David D. Allen, pharmacy's new dean

David D. Allen

The Pharmacy Alumni Chapter has scheduled a number of receptions across the state (see calendar, left) to enable you to meet your alma mater's new dean, David D. Allen. Meantime, Pharmacy Matters has asked Dean Allen a few questions to help you get to know the University of Kentucky graduate and founding Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy dean a little better.
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Researchers shed light on medicinal benefits of plants

Wild Dagga

Scientists in the National Center for Natural Products Research and colleagues at a number of other institutions around the country have developed new resources poised to unlock another door to the hidden garden of medicinally important compounds in plants. The resources were developed by the Medicinal Plant Consortium and grew out of a $6 million initiative from the National Institutes of Health to study how plant genes contribute to production of various chemical compounds.
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Inaugural Ainsworth scholarships presented

Sarah (left) and Jim Ainsworth, Laura Luther and Katie Sims

With funds from the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation, Jim and Sarah Ainsworth created a scholarship to provide assistance to pharmacy students demonstrating leadership throughout their careers at Ole Miss. Inaugural recipients of the Ainsworth Leadership Awards are Laura C. Luther of Hattiesburg and Katie Sims of Athens, Ala.
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Scholarship honors son, family's love of school

Raina McClure (left), Albert Sanderson and Barbara Wells

At the age of 19, Ross Sanderson died in a car accident in 2002. Thinking of his own alma mater and the days on campus he enjoyed with his son, Nashville pharmacist Albert Sanderson has committed $75,000 to the Quentin Ross Sanderson Scholarship Endowment, which honors his son's life by providing assistance to Ole Miss pharmacy students.
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