Dean's Message
Welcome to all our new Pharmacy students and welcome back to our returning students! Our faculty and staff love to see the hallways fill with students again after summer break. Although this summer was not especially summery, we hope you all had the rejuvenating break you deserved.
The School of Pharmacy offers exceptional programs for our undergraduate and graduate students: our Entry-to-Practice PharmD and our graduate student program. And, although our PharmD Working Professional students take classes year-round, we welcome them “back” too.
We pride ourselves on being a small school because it gives us the chance to work closely with our students. Through this personal approach, we offer our students an outstanding educational experience, cultivating and expanding opportunities, fostering creativity, building confidence, and reducing barriers to discovery.
Drug therapy is growing increasingly complex. Our job at the School of Pharmacy is to train the next generation of drug experts and our fellow healthcare professionals to ensure safe and effective therapy for patients. We strive to develop the traits of future pharmacists that make this possible. The traits of a successful pharmacist—to name just a few—are excellent communication skills, empathy, problem-solving, multi-tasking, strong organizational skills, the ability to work under pressure, adaptability, diligence, working well as part of a team, and the willingness to keep learning throughout your career. We feel strongly that our School of Pharmacy will prepare you in all the ways to be leaders in our profession.
It’s an exciting time to be a pharmacist. Doors are opening like never before. The education you receive here will lead you in many inspiring directions in a broad range of fields, including, working in a community or hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical companies, specialized practices, policy development, teaching, and clinical or pharmaceutical research.
As the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, I can say with great conviction, the faculty and staff here want to see you all succeed. We are here to work with you to help you achieve your goals. And we are looking forward to being a part of your educational journey.
My door is always open.