ACPHS In The News

Wondering what foods might improve your performance at the game? Looking for ways to eat healthier on a budget in your off-campus apartment? Have a dietary restriction that you could use some advice on? Get in touch with Sarah Yandow. She’s the new campus dietitian available through Chartwells, which operates the Robison Dining Hall

The students in their third year of professional school were academically well-prepared for Opioid and Addiction Teaching Day, held in three sessions last week, Feb. 6-8.    The medical and pharmacy students who came together did not expect, however, the way their counterparts from another discipline would approach the case studies, created by doctors and pharmacists from real-life experience

The aim of the student Public Health project was initially to help ACPHS students eat healthier. But when the data came in, student researchers changed their objective. The new goal was to make sure their fellow students got enough to eat. It turned out ACPHS was not spared a problem faced by college campuses nationwide: food insecurity among students

Most students encounter chemistry at ACPHS. Some are lucky enough to discover a special alchemy here, something that transforms the bonds of attraction into the most desirable of elixirs: A lifetime of love. Three couples profiled for Valentine’s Day 2023 found each other at ACPHS (or, in one case, very close by)

Consider what students have to say about Dr. Leslie Riddle ‘09, a pharmacist in the emergency department at St. Peter’s Hospital, who serves as a preceptor to ACPHS pharmacists in training: Dr. Riddle is an amazing preceptor who helped me realize that I wanted a career in emergency medicine

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. Scroll down for video interview. Christian Rivera-Vazquez is a P2 student in the Pharm

For the first time in six years, ACPHS hosted the Capital District Feminist Studies Conference on Feb. 3, drawing close to 90 participants from a half dozen area colleges and the New York State Department of Health to discuss research on a wide range of topics

Love fresh powder? The Ski and Snowboard Club is ready to get you out on the slopes to unwind from the rigors of academic work. “You’re away from Albany and you can set aside your worries for a while,” said Andrew Marsden, vice president-elect. There are day trips which run about $50 per person or an annual weeklong excursion that members say is one of the highlights of their time at ACPHS

Scroll down for a list of other events during Black History Month.   Four years, a bike and half of the countries on the continent of Africa piqued Dr. Kevin Hickey’s interest in African culture and its dispersion.   Hickey, an associate professor of Africana studies and spatial theory at ACPHS, traveled by bike around Africa and Europe for six years (four years in Africa and two in Europe) starting in 1978 after finishing his pre-med degree at the University of Vermont

The situation that pharmacy doctoral students Zachary Lanoue and Lauren Hom found themselves in sounds like a fictional scenario presented in a classroom, an instructional tale about professionalism, where the professor might ask, “What would you do?” Make no mistake: it was real