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UK Grad Student Receives NIH F31 Award for a project started with UK IRC pilot funding

By: Jacob Lewis Mar 3, 2021

UK College of Pharmacy graduate student Kaitlind Howard received a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project that previously received pilot funding from the UK Igniting Research Collaborations program.

College of Pharmacy Celebrates Lyman T. Johnson Award Winner Anisa Moore

By Megan Bryant Feb 23, 2021

The UK College of Pharmacy's very own Anisa Moore was awarded the 30th annual Lyman T. Johnson Torch Bearer Award. The Lyman T. Johnson award is presented by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association’s Lyman T. Johnson African American Alumni Group and the University of Kentucky Office of Institutional Diversity.

71 year old Gale Bhattacharyya, receives the Covid-19 vaccine from Tamyah Pipkin at Kroger Field at the University of Kentucky

A Duty to our Community: How Can Pharmacy Students Help?

By Megan Bryant Feb 15, 2021

The University of Kentucky is one of many vaccination centers that have begun administering COVID-19 vaccines to the public--but, with the added bonus of incorporating future healthcare leaders. UK College of Pharmacy students have been given the opportunity to administer vaccines alongside other medical professionals at the clinic since its opening in January.

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College of Pharmacy Hosting Graduate Student Open House

By Kristie Colón Oct 19, 2020

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy will host a virtual Open House for prospective graduate students at 4:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday, October 29, 2020. Prospective students will have a chance to discuss the opportunities for graduate study in pharmaceutical sciences and hear directly from students in the top-ranked program.

Embracing the Risks to Improve Pharmacy Education

By Jacob Lewis Sep 3, 2020

The transition to online learning occurred in a matter of weeks, and UKCOP faculty had little time to make crucial decisions regarding nearly every facet of education. Examinations, courses, and laboratory work were converted to online formats, some for the first time. UKCOP, in particular, faced specific challenges as health practice sites developed policies and procedures to mitigate the presence of student learners in patient-care settings.

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Pharmacy Infectious Disease Experts Reimagine the Classroom

By Kristie Colón Aug 26, 2020

In early March, immediately following the first CDC announcement warning of an impending pandemic, the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (UKCOP) administration started planning for COVID-19. Under the direction of Dean R. Kip Guy, Craig Martin, the college's chief operating officer, and Frank Romanelli, associate dean of academic programs - who both have backgrounds in infectious diseases (ID) and epidemiology - UKCOP developed a multi-faceted approach to a reinvented normal.

A Call to Modern Curriculum Reform

Ja'Nae Clapp Jul 2, 2020

University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy urges educational systems to periodically engage in reviews of classroom material to prevent “curricular hoarding.” Hoarders are defined as people who excessively save items that seem to have no value to other people. Unfortunately, the same principle can sometimes affect higher education, where excessive amounts of coursework are carried forward without modernization.

What is the True Cost of Emotional Labor?

By Jacob Lewis Apr 30, 2020

People of color (POC) often have work experiences unique to those of their counterparts. Dealing with microaggressions and being tasked with additional, uncompensated diversity work are just some of the hurdles POC face when entering the workforce. This extra burden can cause stress, anxiety, and other health-related issues and has become a significant talking point within POC circles. However, there is little emphasis on emotional labor outside of these circles. Where there is, it focuses solely on the experiences of white women.

College of Pharmacy supplies sanitizer to essential workers

by Jacob Lewis Apr 10, 2020

The spread of COVID-19 has completely changed our way of life. Daily routines have been completely altered, and this is especially true for students at the University of Kentucky's healthcare colleges. Many students are working tirelessly to combat the ongoing pandemic and working alongside mentors and colleagues to provide COVID-19 testing, answer public health questions, and serve however they can. Students at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (UKCOP) have found yet another way to help, which includes increasing access to sanitizing products.

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The hidden cost of a seat at the table and how to move forward

by Jacob Lewis Mar 3, 2020

To be a person of color in the workforce is to live a reality surrounded by good intentions while navigating a world that wasn't created with you in mind. The metaphorical “seat at the table” comes with hundreds of years of racial history that differentiate marginalized people from their white coworkers. With the feeling of being “other” constantly looming overhead, it can be difficult for people of color (POC) to be their true selves while working in predominantly white environments.

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We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.

In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.

We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.

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