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DEAN’S NOTE | Focus on Impact
As Steve Jobs once noted, “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.”
Spring 2016
OUTREACH | Serving Time
When a group of Pharm.D. candidates began their Outreach rotations last fall, prison was the furthest thing from their minds. But that’s exactly where the state’s first health fair for incarcerated men took them.
RESEARCH | No Pain, New Gain
Spring 2016 We’ve all been through them as kids—painful needle sticks for multiple vaccinations. And even if we don’t remember them, our parents do. Now, Xinyuan Chen, an assistant professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, in the College of Pharmacy, is developing a laser-based vaccine delivery system that would eliminate traditional hypodermic needle injections. And he’s starting with […]
FACULTY | New Connections
Spring 2016 Political science isn’t the field that comes to mind when considering how to address vaccine hesitancy in adult minorities. For College of Pharmacy Professor Kerry LaPlante, however, the connection is clear. She is currently at work with URI Department of Political Science Professor and Chair Brian Krueger and Associate Professor Marc Hutchison on […]
ALUMNI | Power to the Patient
Eleanor Perfetto ’80, M.S. ’88 has taken on a new role as senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the National Health Council. Now, with her help, patient engagement is about to change.
STUDENTS | Field Goal
“Receiving the Gregory and Claire Wilcox Family scholarship really reinforced for me who I am, what my values are, and how I want to carry that forward,” says Kaitlyn Krajanowski ’18.
