OXFORD, Miss. – Retired Rear Adm. Pamela Schweitzer, former assistant surgeon general and chief pharmacy officer of the U.S. Public Health Service, will deliver the annual Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture on Friday (Feb. 28) at the University of Mississippi. The School of Pharmacy is hosting this free event at noon in the Gertrude C.Read the story …
Former Assistant Surgeon General to Deliver Hartman Lecture
Pamela Schweitzer was the first female chief pharmacy officer of the U.S. Public Health Services
February 25, 2020 by
Graduate Students Find Impacts of Freshwater in Mississippi’s Oysters
Excess rainfall in 2019 caused increased mortality in shellfish reefs
February 24, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – As Ann Fairly Barnett pulled an oyster dredge up through the shoreline waters of the Mississippi Sound, she was dreading what she was about to find. “Not a single living oyster,” said the University of Mississippi master’s student in environmental toxicology. The Jackson native, along with UM environmental toxicology graduate student JamesRead the story …
Pharmacy School Teams with AACP to Host Diversity Institute
UM student pharmacists, faculty, administrators to address issues in health care education and practice
February 20, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy will host an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Institute in January 2021, focusing on critical areas of diversity and their impact on patient care, including race, gender, disability, economic status and other factors. Teams made up of multipleRead the story …
Pharmacy Faculty Selected to AACP House of Delegates
David Colby and Noa Valcarcel will represent university at national meetings
February 9, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi faculty members David Colby and Noa Valcarcel have been selected to represent the School of Pharmacy in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy House of Delegates. Colby, associate professor of medicinal chemistry, will serve during the 2020 AACP annual meeting in Long Beach, California. It will be Colby’sRead the story …
Pharmacy Student Receives ACCP Student Travel Award
Victoria Miller used funds to attend organization's annual meetings
February 7, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi pharmacy student Victoria Miller received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Student Travel Award, which assisted her in attending two of the organization’s annual meetings. Miller, originally from Hartselle, Alabama, was an honoree at the 2018 meeting in Seattle and the 2019 conference in New York. The fourth-year studentRead the story …
Competition Drives Pharmacy Passion for Female Students, Alumna
National Girls and Women in Sports Day shines lights on athletics' influence in pharmacy
February 4, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Sports bring together communities. More than that, it empowers individuals. For three talented female University of Mississippi pharmacy students and a basketball all-conference alumna, National Girls and Women in Sports Day (Feb. 5) highlights those qualities that competition fuels in their desire to help others through the profession. For Kimsey O’Neal Bailey,Read the story …
UM Partners with Emerald Bioscience to License Cannabis-derived Drugs
Two drug candidates have potential to improve pain management and prevent ocular diseases
January 6, 2020 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The cannabis research program at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has partnered with pharmaceutical company Emerald Bioscience Inc. to license two new drug technologies that may provide nonaddictive pain management, prevent blindness and alleviate the threat of irreversible vision loss from glaucoma and other eye diseases. The two drug candidateRead the story …
Ole Miss Pharmacy Holds Inaugural African American Visit Day
School highlights pharmacy profession with 'Melanin and Medications'
December 22, 2019 by
JACKSON, Miss. – When the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy held its inaugural African American Visit Day at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, fourth-year student pharmacist Alisha Nicks saw her vision become reality. Nicks developed “Melanin and Medications,” the theme of the visit day, after seeing the UMMC schools of Medicine and DentistryRead the story …
From Desert to Ocean, Toxicology Student Absorbs Marine Sponge Info
UM doctoral student Amelia Clayshulte spent summer at Smithsonian Institute in Panama
December 18, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – It wouldn’t seem Amelia Clayshulte was destined to study marine sponges, being a native of Las Cruces, New Mexico. However, the doctoral student in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy grew up going with her mom’s family to the coast of North Carolina, where she would spend a week each summerRead the story …
Interprofessional Activity Provides Pharmacy Students New Perspective
Ole Miss student pharmacists participate in poverty simulation
December 13, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – First-year student pharmacists at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy gained a new perspective after participating in a recent Community Action Poverty Simulation, a program that is part of the Missouri Community Action Network. The simulation, which was held at the Ole Miss Student Union, taught students from pharmacy, nursing, socialRead the story …