School of Pharmacy

Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication Facility (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication Facility

UConn’s answer to the call for an affordable way to design, manufacture, and repair equipment is the Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication facility, which can save researchers thousands of dollars and keep their projects moving forward.

Shreya Kulkarni receives Baxter's Young Investigator award

Shreya Kulkarni, Ph.D. candidate, awarded Baxter Young Investigator Award

Shreya Kulkarni, a multi award winning* Ph.D. candidate in the School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently received Baxter Pharmaceutical’s Young Investigator Award in Deerfield, Illinois at Baxter International’s headquarters. Kulkarni presented her research Factors Governing the Reconstitution Time of Highly Concentrated Lypophilized Protein Formulations at the awards presentation, accompanied by her advisor Robin Bogner, Professor, […]

Maria Latta

Maria Latta completes first UConn Co-op Legacy Fellowship

The UConn Co-op Legacy Fellowship is a relatively new funding program that provides support to undergraduate students who are completing self-designed projects that have a public engagement, social impact, or innovation component. Maria Latta ’20 (Pharmacy Studies, PHR) is one of the first group of four students to take advantage of fellowship opportunity. Her project, […]

UConn School of Pharmacy at 2018 CPA awards

Appointments and Accolades for UConn Pharmacy at the 2018 CPA Awards

This year’s Connecticut Pharmacist’s Association‘s (CPA) 142ndAnnual Awards & Installation Banquet at the 2018 New England Pharmacists Convention resulted in a number of UConn School of Pharmacy accolades. Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Marissa Salvo, Pharm.D., BCACP, was appointed to the position of 2nd Vice President of CPA’s Board of Directors for the 2018-2019 year. […]

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UConn in the Conversation

In print, online, and on air, UConn faculty inform public dialogue about the major issues of the day. Here's what they said this year.

Natural supplements may be popular, but they can have dangerous side effects when they include prescription drugs, says pharmacy expert C. Michael White. (Oleksandr Zamuruiev/Shutterstock)

Beware of Natural Supplements for Sex Gain and Weight Loss

A pharmacy professor writes about his concerns that many so-called natural products are tainted with prescription drugs, thereby increasing the risk of harm to patients.

UConn's Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility offers consultation, support, development, and repairs to help researchers find cost-effective solutions. (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Breathing New Life into Aging Electronics

The Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility is a part of the Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (CORE).

ACCP Award winners

ACCP recognizes John Awad (Pharm.D. Class of 2019)

John Awad (P4, Class of ’19) was recently nominated and appointed to the 2019 American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Clinical Practice Affairs Committee. The committee is critical to channeling the talents and energies of ACCP members toward the continued success of the organization. He also received the ACCP’s  Clinical Administration PRN Student Travel Award which […]

Thomas Buckley, UConn associate clinical professor of pharmacy practice, one of several UConn researchers working with survivors of the Khmer Rouge, at a rural village health clinic in Cambodia during a sabbatical leave. (Courtesy of Tom Buckley)

Helping Victims of Genocide in Cambodia – 40 Years On

'We never talk about trauma after it's over,' says Mary Scully of Khmer Health Advocates. UConn researchers are working to improve the health of refugees who have survived trauma.

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Pharmacy and High School Students Team Up to Address Prescription Drug Abuse

One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it and one of the best ways to honor one’s profession is to mentor others. The national Pharm4Me Innovation Challenge sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) gives associate clinical professor of Pharmacy Practice Marissa Salvo’s students a chance to do both. […]