Announcements

The following College of Pharmacy faculty members have been recommended by the provost for promotion and approved for reappointment.

Third-year PharmD candidate Tara Rikabi was selected as a 2023-2024 recipient of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Student Leadership Award.

These awards were nominated by faculty and staff and selected by the PharmD Awards Committee this semester.

Fourth-year PharmD candidate Camryn Barton was named a recipient of the USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award by the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Here are some of the honors and awards received, as well as events and presentations that happened during the 2024 APhA Annual Conference.

The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) awarded Sharyn D. Baker, PharmD, PhD, Gertrude Parker Heer Chair in Cancer Research and professor and chair of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, the 2024 Susan Band Horwitz Award Lecture in Cancer Pharmacology.

Professor Emeritus Robert Buerki will present "The Conscience Clause and American Pharmacy" at World Pharma '24 on March 15, 2024.

Three mentees of H. Liva Rakotondraibe, PhD, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy, won all of the poster prizes at the 7th Annual Plant Sciences Symposium Feb. 29-March 1 at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

Jessica Mercerhill, PhD, director of academic programs and student services, was awarded first place for her cross-stitch, “Papa’s Violets,” in the annual Medicine and the Arts art show.

Rajgopoal Govindarajan, DVM, PhD
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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