Stay connected with Drake’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Share your achievements, recent advanced degrees, births, deaths and marriages, and watch for the updates to appear in every spring and fall issue of ePharm. Achievements Donald Beste, Jr., PH’59, Clovis, Calif. received the Rodney D. Shafer Award, which acknowledges a pharmacy professional who has...
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CPHS recognizes five outstanding alumni
Every spring, the Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences honors extraordinary alumni as part of its annual College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Day. The Alumni Achievement Awards are given to graduates of the college who have excelled in one or more of the following areas: service to the college, distinction in their...
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White Coat Sponsorship Program allows alumnus to pay it forward
The White Coat Ceremony has been a tradition for pharmacy students at Drake University since 1998. This ceremonial rite of passage occurs before the start of the fall semester for all P1 students, welcoming them to the professional pharmacy program. In 2007, Drake expanded the white coat tradition to include sponsorships for students’ coats. Ben...
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Pharmacy alumni updates
Stay connected with Drake’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Share your achievements, recent advanced degrees, births, deaths and marriages, and watch for the updates to appear in every spring and fall issue of ePharm. Achievements Earl Kobayashi, PH ’52, San Mateo, Calif., retired from McClards Pharmacy. Rodney Carter, PH ’76, Westminster, Colo., became Dean...
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Throwback Photo: Dean B.E. Benton and Fitch Hall, 1962
Check out these photos from the 1962 Quax. We’ve include the caption (italicized below) from the page, which discusses the various areas of study offered by the College at that time: It is little wonder that after five years of courses in Drake’s College of Pharmacy, a graduate should wince at the title “pill pusher.” Whether...
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2014-02-262019-07-02by Jeremy SieversIn AlumniCollege of Pharmacy and Health ScienceseBlue NewsletterePharm Newsletter
John Forbes, 2014 recipient of the Weaver Medal of Honor
John Forbes, PH’80, owner and manager of Medicap Pharmacy in Urbandale, was selected to receive the 2014 Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal of Honor, the highest honor given by Drake University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS). In addition to serving as owner and manager of the Medicap in Urbandale, Forbes is...
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2014-01-142019-07-02by Jeremy SieversIn College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesePharm NewsletterFaculty and Staff Accomplishments
Pharmacy student leadership program highlighted in special issue of national journal
“Impact of a Student Leadership Development Program,” written by Renae Chesnut and Jennifer Tran-Johnson in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was one of seven manuscripts selected for the Leadership Issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE).
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2013-12-182019-07-02by Jeremy SieversIn AlumniCollege of Pharmacy and Health ScienceseBlue NewsletterePharm Newsletter
Unique student-centered curricular options
Drake’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is helping its students prepare for what is an increasingly complex and diverse world by providing the opportunity for students to pursue multiple curricular options, including joint degree programs, minors, concentrations, and second majors. More than 50 percent of doctor of pharmacy students and 33 percent of health...
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Throwback Photo
Recognize anyone? This is the composite photo of Kappa Psi fraternity in 1932. Reconnect and reminisce by viewing hundreds of pharmacy fraternity composites on the CPHS’ website. Click here to browse through composite photos from Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Chi, and Lambda Kappa Sigma fraternities. Can’t find your composite photo? Please send a copy to the College...
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“Up ‘Til Dawn” keeps students up for good
The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures and means of prevention for catastrophic pediatric diseases through research and treatment. Some families must stay at the St. Jude facility for extended periods of time, but no family is required to pay for services. With high operating costs, the facility could...