ACPHS In The News

The four international students exchanged knowing glances and nervous laughter when asked what it was like as Fall 2020 approached, when they realized they would not make it to campus. Despite their hard work, their strong applications and the personal assistance of ACPHS staff, the obstacles to getting to Albany were too big to overcome

ACPHS has established a new scholarship fund in honor of Dr. Kimberly A. Skylstad ‘91. Dr. Skylstad, who died just over a year ago at age 54, is remembered as a caring mentor and dependable colleague with a deep commitment to students and to medically underserved communities

After several years without one, ACPHS will re-open a Student Health Center next semester. The new health center will be located at two sites, including one right on campus, and be operated solely by ACPHS, rather than in collaboration with local partners, as in the past

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.  Packy McGraw is ACPHS’ vice president of administrative operations. He started at the College 33 years ago as basketball coach and athletic director

Bianna Sallemi, in her final year in the ACPHS pharmacy doctorate program, had never competed in the Clinical Skills Competition sponsored by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Student Society (ASHP-SSHP). She was also not sure what she wanted to do after she graduated, pondering the Hamlet-like question of all Pharm

Faculty, staff and students from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences took center stage at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas. President Toyin Tofade was awarded the Donald E

Tomasello Riccio changed subtly when asked about Dr. Ray Chandrasekara following the ACPHS Fall 2022 Student Honors Ceremony on Dec. 1. Riccio had just received the Be The Change Award, a.k.a. the “Dr. Ray” Award, created in honor of Chandrasekara, a beloved associate professor of humanities

Dominique Pepe couldn’t get enough of ACPHS. So, she came back after 10 years away. Pepe, an Amsterdam, N.Y. native, received her Bachelor's in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2012 from ACPHS.  Now, she’s working on her doctorate.  She grew up in a close-knit family that owned and operated a bakery for more than 100 years

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.  Dom Lomonaco, a Binghamton, N.Y. native, is a well-known student on the ACPHS campus

Assistant Professor Vir Singh uses memorable phrases for the approaches taken by the scientists like him engaged in an ambitious quest – to cure HIV, or at least put the virus into a coma.  He calls his biggest project, supported with a three-year, $495,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a path to “shock and kill