OXFORD, Miss. – Kelly Gable, an alumna of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the Teaching Excellence Award from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Presented annually, the award is the highest teaching honor a faculty member at SIUE can receive. Gable, who received her Pharm.D. from Ole Miss in 2004, isRead the story …
Pharmacy Alumna Receives Prestigious Teaching Award
Kelly Gable recognized for provider status, excellence in student instruction
March 2, 2015 by
MIPA Donates $100,000 for Pharmacy School Renovations
Gift to support new skills laboratory for students
February 12, 2015 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Mississippi Independent Pharmacies Association has pledged $100,000 to support the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s Faser Capital Initiative. The initiative supports the most recent renovation of Faser Hall, one of the pharmacy school’s main buildings. A state-of-the-art skills laboratory for students is among the primary upgrades. “The generosity of MIPA’sRead the story …
Award Created for Environmental Toxicology Students
Recognition named in honor of influential former faculty member
January 24, 2015 by
OXFORD, Miss. – To honor a former faculty member and environmental toxicology research leader, the School of Pharmacy has created the William H. Benson Distinguished Graduate Student Award. “I was honestly in disbelief when I first learned of the plans for the award,” said Benson, who served as a professor of pharmacology and toxicology atRead the story …
Renowned Pharmacognosist to Present Waller Lecture
A. Douglas Kinghorn returns to Ole Miss to discuss collaborative pharmaceutical research
November 18, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A. Douglas Kinghorn, professor and Jack L. Beal Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, will deliver the 2014 Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture at the University of Mississippi. The lecture, “Pharmacognosy as a Collaborative Pharmaceutical Science,” is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday (Nov.Read the story …
Pharmacy Plans ‘Day of Thanks’ Nov. 14
Donations encouraged through convenient crowdfunding platform
November 12, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – As the holiday season approaches, the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is planning an online giving day for Friday (Nov. 14). The Ole Miss Pharmacy Day of Thanks is a 24-hour initiative to raise funds for student, faculty and research support. The focus is on participation rather than raising a specificRead the story …
Alumna Reflects on Half-Century Pharmacy Career
Former drugstore owner remembers World War II, Hurricane Camille
October 23, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Louise Chadwick Lynch remembers her uncle Cornelius Herlihy’s pharmacy in Waveland as “a mystical place.” “As a young child, I couldn’t go in the pharmacy itself where the prescriptions were filled,” said Lynch, 91. “I always wondered what was written on that little paper. That piece of paper was so important.” LynchRead the story …
Undergraduates Participate in Advanced Research Internship
Projects centered on computational chemistry
October 22, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two students received a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity this summer to work with Robert Doerksen, associate professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Mississippi, as part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE-1156713, the program is commonly referred to at Ole Miss asRead the story …
UM Researchers Study Novel Drug-Delivery System
Focus on compounds developed by leading pharmaceutical company
September 30, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy researchers are studying an improved method for delivering drugs that treat pain and inflammation. Narasimha Murthy, associate professor of pharmaceutics, and Abhishek Juluri, a pharmaceutics doctoral student, are pursuing new compounds that enable easier drug delivery through the skin. Their work is supported by a collaborativeRead the story …
Professor, Student Land National Leadership Roles
Positions are in 'highest levels' of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy
September 25, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy professor and student assumed leadership roles with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists this summer. Joshua Fleming, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice, was installed as vice chair of the executive committee of ASHP’s New Practitioners Forum at the society’s summer meeting in June. AtRead the story …
Pharmacy Students Organize Flu Shot Drive
Event is part of national immunization campaign
September 24, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Students in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy are making it easier than ever to get a flu shot on campus. The local chapter of the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists has coordinated multiple opportunities in September and October for faculty, staff and students to receive their shots.Read the story …