ACPHS In The News

On a recent clinical rotation, pharmacy doctoral candidate Mikayla Toussaint (pictured above, left) stood at the entrance of a retail store, ready to assist customers arriving with doctors’ recommendations for medication.   Other greeters were at the entrance too, checking ID cards and directing customers to non-medical products, including colorful bongs and t-shirts with marijuana-leaf graphics

The 2024 Leadership Recognition Banquet was a time to acknowledge accomplishments and celebrate classmates, faculty and staff. The Student Government Association, in conjunction with the Office of Student Engagement and Wellness, gave out 23 awards at the April 18 event at Normanside in suburban Delmar

“Are you ready?!” The pharmacy student said this to a huddle abutting huddles upon huddles of students in a white-coated hive outside room 201 in the Gozzo Student Center late Thursday morning. Her words got lost in a loud buzz as more than 100 awaited the opening of doors to a momentous assembly

When you think of a laboratory scientist, what image arises? If it’s someone working in lonely obscurity, Medical Laboratory Sciences Club intends to change that perception. Founded a year ago as an interest group and approved as an official club in November, MLSC already has 30 members and has held events to highlight the many roles a lab scientist can fill

Panther Profiles are Q&A interviews that highlight Panthers of all stripes -- students, faculty, staff, alum, board members and anyone else in the campus community.  Dr. Elizabeth Brookins joined ACPHS in 2018 to create the Pre-Professional Pathways program, and to teach anatomy and physiology

An ACPHS delegation of some 50 pharmacy doctoral students made up about one-fifth of pharmacists and students statewide lobbying state legislators Monday for passage of bills that would expand pharmacists’ scope of practice and access to patient care

 

At 96.6 percent magnitude, the campus did not experience a total eclipse on April 8, 2024. Yet students, faculty and staff who gathered outside experienced a chill and an eerie light as the moon nearly obscured the sun at 3:26 pm.

Among the students leaders on campus are the Peer Mentors, Peer Tutors and Writing Center Tutors who support their classmates in succeeding at ACPHS. The Center for Student Success feted them at its annual Recognition Banquet on April 2, 2024.  Students recognized for their exemplary efforts included those below

At the 2024 ACPHS Research Symposium, 23-year-old Landon Thompson described four years of research, working with ACPHS faculty, fellows and other students on a novel pathway toward curing HIV.   As one of nine researchers – only two of them students – giving podium presentations during the annual research showcase, Thompson summarized an innovative approach to “shocking” HIV out of its hiding place by inhibiting an enzyme that may be found near the site where the virus integrates into DNA