{"id":5580,"date":"2009-05-25T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2009-05-25T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:24:26","slug":"campus-involvement-gives-pharmacy-student-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2009\/05\/25\/campus-involvement-gives-pharmacy-student-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus involvement gives pharmacy student confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rebecca Davis, fourth year pharmacy student, posed at the URI Catholic Center with her lab coat and Homecoming crown. URI Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

URI Pharmacy student does it all.<\/h3>\n

KINGSTON- March 25, 2009 – The University of Rhode Island\u2019s College of Pharmacy, was a natural fit for Rebecca Davis, but she never thought her involvement here would lead to her being named the 2008 URI Homecoming Queen.
\nRebecca Davis, better known to her peers as Becky, has worked in a pharmacy ever since she was 16 years old. She started at a small independent pharmacy in Rochester, N.H. The owners of CARE Pharmacy inspired Davis to pursue the field, and encouraged her to check out their alma mater.
\n\u201cI fell in love with the campus on my first tour,\u201d Davis said of URI. \u201cIt has such a homey feel.\u201d But as a freshman pharmacy student from Berwick, Maine, Davis was a little intimidated to jump in and get involved. \u201c I was quite shy,\u201d Davis admits.
\nAs a sophomore she heard about the pharmacy professional sorority Lambda Kappa Sigma, LKS, and has held an executive position since joining in her second year. Now in her fourth year, she is the President of the URI chapter. \u201cI love it \u2026a lot! I love watching the members grow from this experience, like I have,\u201d Davis said. This year the organization has grown to 157 members and was nominated for the URI Rainville Leadership Award.
\nDavis loves how she can apply pharmacy to different mentoring roles. She was a URI 101 mentor for the last two years, helping lead the required freshmen class for two pharmacy learning communities. She says it gave her the confidence to be a good resource for younger students. Davis also started a community outreach program with LKS, going to various high schools to talk with students about pharmacy as a career. \u201cThe best part of doing what you love is being able to share it with others. \u201c
\nIn her third year at URI, Davis joined the Newman Club, an organization that meets in the Catholic Center. \u201cMy roommate brought me last year and I just felt such a sense of welcoming,\u201d Davis said. The group has given her memorable experiences such as going to New Orleans with Camp Restore to rebuild houses following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. \u201c The Newman Club is a family to me and its members have given me the support that I\u2019ve needed to grow stronger as a person. \u201c This year she was the vice president of the group, and the members nominated her for URI homecoming Queen. \u201cI thought they were joking at first, but when I realized they weren\u2019t, I was truly honored.\u201d
\nSo what is next for the URI homecoming queen? As a fourth-year student in the six-year pharmacy program she still has plenty of time left in Kingston, but Davis is not wasting any time getting ready for her life after college. Davis is working toward a masters of business administration at URI as well. She started with a minor in business and heard about URI\u2019s Doctor of Pharmacy and MBA dual program and took advantage of the great opportunity. Davis hopes it will give her a competitive edge as well as open more doors in the field of pharmacy managed care.
\nAs for long term, Davis says she lives by the motto \u201cif it\u2019s meant to be, it\u2019s meant to be.\u201d She plans on going where the best job opportunities are. \u201cI\u2019m doing everything now that will give me the best opportunities in the long run.\u201d
\nMedia Contact: Dave Lavallee<\/a>, 401-874-5862<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

URI Pharmacy student does it all. KINGSTON- March 25, 2009 – The University of Rhode Island\u2019s College of Pharmacy, was a natural fit for Rebecca Davis, but she never thought her involvement here would lead to her being named the 2008 URI Homecoming Queen. Rebecca Davis, better known to her peers as Becky, has worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}