URI pharmacy students win national therapeutics skills competition

College of Pharmacy claims third national student championship in the last year In the latest national win for University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy students, four doctor of pharmacy candidates placed first nationally in the 2026 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Foundation’s National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics Competition. Willy Njeru, Vanessa Oseghale, Matthew […]

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URI pharmacy professor part of major federal microplastics effort

Jaime Ross will help in nationwide effort to research, measure and remove microplastics contaminating the human body University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and George and Anne Ryan Institute of Neuroscience Assistant Professor Jaime Ross is taking her extensive research into the scourge of microplastics to the nation’s capital after being invited to join […]

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‘Promise and Pitfalls’ of AI in health care at center of URI Pharmacy conference

College’s 41st annual Seminar By the Sea examines how to responsibly integrateAI into medication management Despite its relative infancy among world-changing technologies in human history—the wheel, the printing press, electricity, the Internet—artificial intelligence has most rapidly become ubiquitous, already adopted by billions of people just a few short years after becoming publicly available. AI has […]

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URI College of Pharmacy dean emeritus earns Campbell Award for ethics, excellence in health care

Paul Larrat recognized for ‘profound dedication to the well-being of society’ The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy presented Dean Emeritus Paul Larrat with the Norman A. Campbell Award for Excellence and Ethics in Health Care, honoring his contributions to the pharmacy profession, and his extraordinary impact on health care in the community. Named […]

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URI students bring interdisciplinary health education to South Kingstown High School during wellness fair

University of Rhode Island students from the Colleges of Pharmacy and Health Sciences imparted some health wisdom on younger students during an interactive health and wellness fair Dec. 5 at South Kingstown High School. About 70 URI students helped educate high school students during an interprofessional presentation involving the departments of nutrition, physical therapy and […]

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URI pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy students get interprofessional experience at Brown medical school

Local colleges and universities collaborate on RI Interprofessional Education Day University of Rhode Island students from the colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences joined medical and social work students from other local institutions in multidisciplinary teams during Rhode Island Interprofessional Education Day at the Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, where they worked together […]

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