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Dozens of pharmacy students detail dynamic research projects at annual Research Showcase

Pharmacy students detail their research projects for professors, fellow students, and passers-by in the lobby of Avedisian Hall during the College of Pharmacy's annual Research Showcase.

Winners announced in four categories spanning all College of Pharmacy programs After investigating subjects as varied as cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, hypertension, kidney health, and many more, dozens of University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy students showed off their research projects during the fifth annual Student Research Showcase in the lobby of Avedisian Hall on […]

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URI pharmacy students win national therapeutics skills competition

URI College of Pharmacy students Willy Njeru (left), Vanessa Oseghale, Matthew Pari, and Ramez Rizk finished ahead of 67 other colleges of pharmacy from around the country to win the 2026 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Foundation's National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics 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

URI College of Pharmacy and George & Anne Ryan Institute of Neuroscience Jaime Ross has been invited to join a nationwide $144 million program “to create the definitive toolbox for measuring, researching, and removing microplastics and nanoplastics in the human body.”

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

Sean Jeffrey, professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut, presented a session on the “Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Pharmacy Practice" during the URI College of Pharmacy's 41st annual Seminar By the Sea 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

URI College of Pharmacy Dean Emeritus Paul Larrat receives the Norman A. Campbell Award for Ethics and Excellence in Health Care from Dean Kerry LaPlante (right) and Linda Campbell, daughter of Norman Campbell.

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

URI College of Pharmacy student Shakir Spike blocks his mouth so South Kingstown High School students can't read his lips as he tests their hearing age during an interactive health and wellness fair at the High School on Dec. 5.

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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