ACPHS In The News

More than 50 ACPHS students served as community health educators at Crossgates Mall on Saturday, Oct. 15, dispensing information on medication safety and screening shoppers for diabetes, high blood pressure, and abnormal bone density. More than 100 community members stopped by the tables to take advantage of the students’ expertise and the free screenings

Though 18-year-old Audrey DeGraw’s grandfather was a member of the Onondaga nation, it took a trip to California last week for the ACPHS sophomore to find her tribe. It also took a bona fide scientific discovery to get there – the identification of a novel virus found in a soil sample in Albany’s Lincoln Park

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS), in collaboration with Albany Medical College, Center for Economic Growth, Empire State Development, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University at Albany are hosting BioInnovation 2022: Cultivating a Biotech Ecosystem: Driving Innovation and Commercialization on Thursday, October 13 from noon – 5 pm

In just over a decade since graduating from ACPHS, Dr. Aniwaa Owusu Obeng '11 has achieved so much that you might assume her career dreams had come true.    She is a faculty member of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan

A beloved former Dean of the Albany College of Pharmacy, Dr. Kenneth W. Miller, died on September 19. Dr. Miller was 80 years old and had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. He leaves a significant legacy to the College and the pharmacy profession

“If I don’t do this, what happens to the patient?” Luis Rivera asked himself as he began to assist a 73-year-old man sitting in the waiting room of the College Parkside pharmacy. Rivera, a fourth year Pharm.D. student, is currently completing his third rotation at the student- run pharmacy in Albany

Pharmacy students in the ACPHS Class of 2026 participated in an important rite of passage on September 9, the White Coat Ceremony, marking the beginning of their professional studies.  When the 83 students received their white coats for the first time, they were cloaked in more than a sign of their chosen degree

Pharmacy students and residents moving through their rotations gained real-life experience in training others to save lives on Wednesday, Aug. 31. On International Overdose Awareness Day, students and residents distributed information and trained people on how to use naloxone (a

WARM WELCOMES & INSPIRATION GREET NEW ACPHS STUDENTS The nearly 160 students arriving on the ACPHS campus this week were greeted with high energy and enthusiasm as they moved into their new homes-away-from-home. More than 20 resident advisors and 40 volunteer orientation leaders met students and their families on Wednesday with upbeat music and loud cheers

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) announces the expansion of its Albany campus through the acquisition of a state-of-the-art medical and life sciences facility located at 150 New Scotland Avenue. The property, which is adjacent to the ACPHS campus, is a 154,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility uniquely designed for life science research