URI students in multidisciplinary teams assess older adults’ health, balance, fall risk

Senior Health, Wellness, and Fall Risk program offers comprehensive health assessments to community volunteers, experience for students Students from the Colleges of Health Sciences and Pharmacy got some hands-on training while older adults from the community gained valuable health information during the Senior Health, Wellness, and Fall Risk program in Independence Square recently. Under the […]

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Providence Journal Op-Ed: Alliance transforming RI’s biomedical research landscape

Federal research grants are vital to building and maintaining world-class
research programs. The University of Rhode Island recently secured a five-
year, $21-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the
Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program.
Since its inception in 2001, the program has brought more than $100 million to
the state.

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‘It’s More Than Giving a Pill’

Pharmacy Clinical Professor Virginia Lemay focuses on prevention, wellness, holistic health Pharmacists in today’s health care environment need to be do more than provide pills, patches, or creams for customers in the pharmacy. They need to be full-service healthcare providers, examining a patient from a whole perspective, and helping them understand not just their medications […]

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Community pharmacies: Health care ‘service as it’s supposed to be’

URI College of Pharmacy alum Matthew Olivier strives to keep the community in community pharmacy at Matt's Local Pharmacy in Middletown.

Despite financial challenges in drug reimbursement, URI alum seeks to expand services of Matt’s Local Pharmacy Pharmacists are known as the most accessible of health care providers, willing to meet with patients without an appointment to discuss health conditions, medications and their side effects, or possible alternative treatments to help keep fellow members of their […]

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Pharmacy Class of 2028 welcomed to profession during annual White Coat Ceremony

URI College of Pharmacy students recite the Oath of a Pharmacist during the annual White Coat Ceremony Sept. 27.

New pharmacy students receive white coats, take the Oath of a Pharmacist The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy Class of 2028 was officially welcomed into the profession on Sept. 27 as students donned their white coats for the first time, ceremonially beginning their professional years as pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists in training. Pharmacy […]

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URI’s 67th Annual Youngken Clinic to focus on gut-brain health, offers continuing education credit

College of Pharmacy’s conference Nov. 7 provides CE for pharmacists and pharmacy techs, expanding college’s impact on pharmaceutical health The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy will present its Heber W. Youngken, Jr. Pharmacy Clinic on Nov. 7, offering pharmacists and pharmacy technicians valuable continuing education credits, and featuring some of the leading voices […]

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Research program offers underrepresented students opportunities in bioscience, bioengineering research

First-year ESTEEMED Program students include (left-to-right, from front row) Ori Barata, Charlize Laranzo, Ervin Ranz Regalado, Daniel Flores, Camila Quiroga, Ayendry Lopez, and Temidayo Jegede.

ESTEEMED program at URI funded by $1.15 million NIH grant secured by Pharmacy and Engineering Professor Samantha Meenach A group of students from underrepresented groups and/or disadvantaged backgrounds, who may not have otherwise had the opportunity, are pursuing studies in bioengineering and bioscience research programs at the University of Rhode Island, thanks to a federal […]

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