ACPHS In The News

Carter Huntley and Julia Sexton, left, go over their plans for Narcan Training Day with Sam Halajian, right. In the background, Glenn Dorman, a substance abuse counselor, stocks the table with naloxone kits at Saratoga Community Health Center.    Warm sunshine and a cool breeze brought smiles to strollers’ faces on Tuesday, Aug

A new class of students arrived on the ACPHS campus recently, greeted by resident advisors, volunteer orientation leaders, and members of the ACPHS community with high energy and enthusiasm as they moved into their new homes-away-from-home. Yesterday, the fall semester commenced as students attended class, met faculty and learned about what was on the docket for the fall

As a way to enhance the start of their semester experiences, pharmacy students in their professional years had more orientation opportunities in Fall 2024. Those entering their first year of professional training (P1), whether they had been at ACPHS before or not, had extended opportunities for orientation activities during the week before classes started

Michael Pasquarella, Dr. Meenakshi Malik, Dr. Sibdas Ghosh, Dr. Courtney Tackes The 2024-25 academic year begins with new leaders at the helm, as well as some familiar leaders in new roles. Working with President Toyin Tofade and the rest of Cabinet, these six leaders share a belief that ACPHS can achieve the aspirations set out in the strategic plan by building on its well-established foundation, growing with an eye toward workforce needs and attracting students of all ages

New Panthers moved on to campus on Thursday, Aug. 22. They got a warm welcome and got to know each other with some icebreakers on the campus green. The weather contributed to a perfect welcome party.   

ACPHS’ annual faculty/staff retreat on Aug. 14 focused on adapting to change, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Barbara Trautlein of Change Catalysts. Following a pre-retreat assessment, faculty and staff explored change styles rooted in head, hands or heart – and what their own style meant for their contributions to changes occurring on campus

If you took the wide-angle view of campus in the summer, you’d see a quieter place moving at a slower pace.  But if you knew where to focus your gaze any particular week, you’d see the activity never stopped. Summer 2024 featured training for students of all ages – from middle-school students learning how to make medicine to well-established professionals learning how to market their medical innovations

With the incredible growth of the academic portfolio over the past 10 months, the College made investments in faculty who could teach these new programs to transferring Saint Rose students, as well as helping the College grow these programs to myriad prospective students

Incoming Panthers got acquainted with campus and each other on July 26, 2024 as ACPHS held its Kick Start event in advance of the upcoming academic year.

Joy Mwangangye attends college and works as a high school teaching assistant in the Boston area. But it took a trip to Albany to see inside the wonders of multinational pharmaceutical companies. Indeed, a Boston-based Takeda facility was Mwangangye’s favorite stop in the NIIMBL eXperience, a weeklong exploration of the biopharmaceutical industry hosted by ACPHS’ Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET) from June 3-7