Over the course of the College of Pharmacy’s hundred year history in Providence and Kingston, there have been a number of watershed years. The opening of the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences Benefit Street building in Providence in 1924, the move of that College to URI in Kingston in 1957, the opening of Fogarty Hall in 1964, our adoption of an “All-Pharm.D.” program in 1998, the initial funding of the INBRE research program at URI in 2001 and completion of our current pharmacy building in 2012 come to mind. Periods of great change and the potential for accelerated advancement. 2016 is shaping up to be one of those transformative years.

It was standing-room-only crowd that celebrated the dedication of the Dr. Louis A. Luzzi Dean’s Suite in the College of Pharmacy.

The University honored members of the College of Pharmacy community at the 10th Annual Distinguished Achievement Awards & Gala on Saturday, October 17. Recipients included Mostafa Omar, Ph.D. ’82, Matt Leonard ’88 ’82, Richard V. Piacentini ’77 and CVS Health.

URI Women’s A Division skipper Rachel Bryer ’17, of Jamestown, R.I., a P3 student in the College of Pharmacy, was named an Inter-Collegiate SailingAssociation Women’s All-American Skipper this summer, one of only six women nationwide to win the honor.

This past August, 15 brothers from Beta Epsilon, URI’s Chapter of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. traveled to Denver, Colorado for the biennial international meeting known as the Grand Council Convention. Beta Epsilon’s two delegates, Joe Nardolillo and Dominic DeFilipi, voted on many legislative changes as well as elected the new international officers.