ACPHS In The News

Three weeks ago, the seniors on the women’s soccer team had resigned themselves to the fact that they had played their last collegiate game. It was not the final game or season any of them had hoped to finish their soccer careers on, especially on the heels of an undefeated season last year

Panther Profiles is a Q& A feature that highlights Panthers of all stripes -- students, faculty, staff, alum, board members or anyone else in the campus community.  Dr. Wallace Pickworth ’69 is a member of the ACPHS Board of Trustees.  He is a pharmacologist with extensive preclinical and clinical experience

The annual Professionalism Runway Show put career style and best ethical practices on display this week, as a handful of bold, stylish students strutted down the red carpet. The show, which launched a decade ago, features student models who are critiqued on their professional appearance and responses to fictional ethical dilemmas

Along with inflation, crime and threats to democracy, abortion rights are among the big issues on voters’ minds this Election Day. The perennially fiery topic has heated up even more since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v

What a difference a year can make. For the ACPHS women’s cross-country team, it’s the difference between being runner-up and being champions in the Yankee Small College Conference.  The team is on its way to nationals in Virginia this Friday, November 11

One might rightly expect a campus director of dining services to nourish students.  At ACPHS, she also nurtures them. Alisa Mathis-Peterson is not just concerned with satisfying appetites – although, to be sure, she is concerned with that

It is often said that the ACPHS community is so close knit that it’s like a family. If you think that’s the case in 2022, imagine what it was during the last half of the 20th century, when a married couple who lived on campus for more than 40 years served as surrogate parents or grandparents to students, faculty and staff alike

ACPHS participated Saturday in Prescription Drug Take Back Day, organized nationally by the Drug Enforcement Administration, as the sole collection site for the City of Albany. The goal of Take Back Day, as it’s called, is to improve the safety of households by removing expired drugs from medicine cabinets and also the safety of the community by ensuring no prescriptions make it to the streets to be improperly used

ACPHS held its first on-campus in-person Career Fair in three years, with 24 employers and school recruiters offering information at the Albert A. White Gymnasium.  More than 120 students registered for the event.  Most were finishing their final year at ACPHS, but some first- and second-year students also looked around

Erica Scholl set herself the goal of helping sick children when she was 5 years old. Her inspiration 17 years ago was a medal of St. Jude that her mother carried with her. When curious young Erica asked about it, her mother explained that St. Jude represented hope