From the selfless service of College personnel to groundbreaking research projects, some of the many recent accomplishments of the URI College of Pharmacy are chronicled in the Winter 2021 newsletter.

URI College of Pharmacy hosts ‘Surviving the Tsunami of COVID-19: A Healthcare Provider’s Survival Kit’ virtually March 17-19 Health professionals from around the region will earn valuable continuing education credits while discussing some of the most pressing healthcare issues of the day during the 36th annual Seminar by the Sea Northeast Regional Conference presented by […]

Study to show impacts on mother, child of prescription opioid use Prescription opioid use among pregnant women has increased in recent years, putting both mother and unborn baby at risk. It is necessary to comprehensively evaluate the safety of opioids on both mother and infant, the subject of a funded study in the URI College […]

Robert and Birdie Lawrence Endowed Scholarship gives preference to African American students with financial need While improvements in diversity have been made in recent years, African American people are still severely underrepresented in the pharmacy profession across the country, accounting for less than 5 percent of all pharmacists, according to PharmacyTimes. A new scholarship established […]

With the production of the COVID-19 vaccine, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon. While there’s still a long way to go, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy faculty and staff members continue their efforts to hasten the end of the deadly pandemic, training pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to administer the vaccine. […]

Saliva-based test developed by Professor Angela Slitt and her team is fast, accurate and low-cost By Elisa Mason By now, most people have either seen or received the invasive COVID-19 test with the gigantic swab inserted into the nasal cavity. That long, thin swab collects a sample of the potentially infected cells in the area […]

URI Pharmaceutical Development Institute offers suite of online, in-person courses, launching online Training Center The University of Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Development Institute is revolutionizing pharmaceutical training and workforce development opportunities in biopharmaceutical processing and manufacturing, helping meet the critical demand for skilled professionals. The PDI continues to provide solutions for training even in these challenging […]

URI pharmacy Professor Todd Brothers coordinates COVID-19 field hospital pharmacy, along with fellow professors, students Several University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy students and professors have stepped up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic at the Care New England Field Hospital in Cranston, including Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Todd Brothers who is coordinating pharmacy efforts […]

Fourth in series of URI discussions examines impact of COVID-19 on healthcare professionals

URI experts plot a vaccine’s progress from laboratory to pharmacy.