SPOKANE, Wash. – A pharmaceutical scientist from the Penn State cancer and neuroscience institutes and a pharmacy practitioner who was last year’s president of the Washington State Pharmacy Association have joined the faculty at the Washington State University College of Pharmacy in Spokane. They are two of the four new faculty joining the college in […]
Wagner SPOKANE – This year marks the 10th anniversary of Project H.O.P.E. (Health Occupations Preparation Experience), an annual summer internship program for high school students coordinated by Washington’s two Area Health Education Centers in partnership with the Washington State Office of Community and Rural Health. Unfortunately, this is also the year the program saw […]
Photos by Lorraine Nelson, College of Pharmacy. SoundSlide created by Joanna Yorke, WSU Today intern. Music is “The Hokey Pokey (New Orleans jam session)” from the “Smile at Your Neighbor” album by Eric Litwin. PULLMAN – The prescription says exercise, but what kind? When WSU students/future pharmacists tell patients with osteoporosis to […]
A Washington State University pharmacy student is the new president-elect of the National Community Pharmacists Association’s students’ council and will serve as president in 2010-11. It will be the second time in three years a WSU student has served as president of the 16-member national student leadership council. WSU pharmacy student Jason Doss, who graduated […]
Unless you have personally experienced debilitating pain and stiffness in your hands, knees or other joints, it can be hard to understand the day-to-day limitations arthritis can impose on a person. Hoping to increase pharmacy students’ awareness of those limitations, Jennifer Robinson, clinical instructor, and Patty Greenburg, laboratory assistant, recently conducted a pharmaceutical […]
PULLMAN – The WSU College of Pharmacy will suspend state funding for its Chronic Illness Research Center (CIRC) co-located on the Pullman and Spokane campuses effective Aug. 31. The suspension of state funding will eliminate one half-time administrative professional position at WSU Spokane and two full-time administrative positions at Pullman. James P. Kehrer, dean […]
PULLMAN – A team of pharmacy students from Washington State University recently placed fourth in a national business plan competition, continuing a winning streak set by WSU teams, which have placed among the top five in the competition in four of the past five years. WSU teams have taken first place once and second place […]
In early February, the Spokane Regional Health District called two WSU College of Pharmacy faculty members into action after a county declared state of emergency closed all county roads in southern and west Spokane County due to heavy snow. “This was about a partnership that WSU College of Pharmacy has had with the community for […]
Photo: Jaime A. Yanez and Connie Remsberg discuss research in the lab of Neal Davies. (Photo by Becky Phillips). It’s a collaboration as old as the university itself. Photos from the first windswept days of the Washington Agricultural College show a long white greenhouse sitting where the Admin Annex lies today. There, in the late […]
Photo: Cathy Elstad has been named teacher of the year in pharmacy eight times. (Photo by Kelly Peterson, WSU Today intern). Twenty years ago, Cathy Elstad would have laughed if someone told her where she would be today. “I would have said, ‘I have no business being in the College of Pharmacy,’ ” she said. […]