URI College of Pharmacy Medicinal and Wellness Garden wins another design award

The garden received the Rhode Island Chapter of ASLA highest award the 2013 President’s Award of Excellence. The award was given to Wagner/Hodgson Landscape Architecture of Burlington, VT. The jury commented that the project represented a “very thoughtful and responsive design”, with “excellent collaboration between landscape architect and artist”, and “exemplary execution of site detailing”.

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29th Annual Seminar by the Sea Northeast Regional Pre-Conference

Continuing Professional Development Office of Continuing Professional Development 30th Annual Seminar by the Sea Northeast Regional Continuing Education Conference for Pharmacists Headline Topics Influencing Pharmacy Practice  March 11, 12 & 13, 2015 Hyatt  Regency Newport Hotel, 1 Goat Island, Newport RI 02840 Pre-Conference     Plenary Sessions     Registration     Accommodations     Program Faculty     Questions Pre-Conference Workshops Wednesday, March 12, […]

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Bolstering a Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Lead Exposure

Researchers striving to understand the origins of dementia are building the case against a possible culprit: lead exposure early in life. A study spanning 23 years has now revealed that monkeys who drank a lead-rich formula as infants later developed tangles of a key brain protein, called tau, linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Though neuroscientists say […]

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Be the Change

URI’s APhA-ASP chapter has submitted their entry into the annual APhA-ASP video competition. This year’s theme was “Be the Change” which the team approached by creating a music video with which adapts Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror with original pharmacy related lyrics. The chapter assembled a team to produce the video with pharmacy students being […]

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URI Pharmacy Students Improve Patient Awareness of HPV, Cervical Cancer

Students recently presented the results of their 2-year study at Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic at a health conference in Boston. Jeff Chau didn’t know much about HPV when he started volunteering at a free health clinic in Providence three years ago. Now the University of Rhode Island pharmacy student is so knowledgeable about the cancer-causing virus […]

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Be the Change

Be the Change December 4, 2013: URI’s APhA-ASP chapter has submitted their entry into the annual APhA-ASP video competition. This year’s theme was “Be the Change” which the team approached by creating a music video with which adapts Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror with original pharmacy related lyrics. The chapter assembled a team to produce […]

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The University of Rhode Island is establishing the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience

With the largest private donation in its history, The University of Rhode Island will establish a neuroscience research institute named for the parents of Thomas M. Ryan, a 1975 pharmacy graduate of the University and former chairman, president and CEO of CVS Caremark. Tom and his wife Cathy have donated $15 million to establish the George […]

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URI Receives $15-million gift to Research Diseases of the Brain

The University of Rhode Island has received a $15-million gift to establish a research institute focused on understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The gift, from former CVS Caremark CEO Thomas M. Ryan and his wife, Cathy, aims to catalyze a statewide collaboration, linking with Brown University and local hospitals to […]

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