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First Snow Ball Attracts a Crowd, Gives Back
With more than 350 attendees, ACPHS's first annual Charity Snow Ball
was a great success.
Held at the Albany Crowne Plaza Hotel, the event invited ACPHS
employees and students to a semi-formal with dancing, refreshments
and charity. The Student Government Association and Student
Programming Board presented the ball and collected more than 450 toys
for the Toys for Tots program.
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PostScript is Here
The
Fall 2009 PostScript is now available. If you haven't received a copy
or need additional copies, please contact Assistant Director of
Marketing and Communications Donna
Reichel
(518-694-7389). The issue is also available (in pdf form) on the
ACPHS homepage.
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Campus Selection Form Deadline
Second-year
pharmacy students have the option to complete their pharmacy
education at either the Albany or Vermont
campus. Please complete the Campus Selection forms and return them to
the Pharmacy and Graduate Admissions Office in OB
118 by Friday, January 29, 2010.
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PRI Publication
Drugs of Today will publish "Current status of nucleoside
antivirals in chronic hepatitis B" in its October 2010 issue.
Hepatitis B was the focus of the research, which was conducted by PRI
Executive Vice President and Chairman Shaker Mousa, Ph.D. and researcher Anhtung Duong '09.
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Scholarship Opportunities
- The 2010 AACP Wal-Mart Scholars Program will
provide $1,000 scholarships to 65 student-faculty pairs from
AACP member institutions to attend the 2010 AACP Annual Meeting
and Teachers Seminar in Seattle
from July 10 through July 14, 2010. The scholarship will cover
100 percent of the student's registration costs and 50 percent
of the faculty's registration costs at the early-bird rate. The
scholarship will also cover registration for both the student
and faculty mentor to attend the Teacher's Seminar. Beyond
registration, recipients can choose to apply the remainder of
the scholarship to airfare, lodging and other meeting expenses
for the student. Application materials are available on the AACP website
and are due at AACP by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, February 15, 2010.
·
The Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP),
in conjunction with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), and
under the auspices of Pfizer Inc, has made available twelve managed care
internships for the summer of 2010. The goal of the program is to
enhance a student's awareness of career options in managed care
pharmacy practice settings or within the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) by direct hands-on involvement. Ten managed care
organizations and two VA medical centers will each host an intern for
this program. The deadline is Monday, February 1, 2010. Visit the FMCP website
for further information.
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Cytotech Newsletter
You can read
about the Cytotechnology program in its latest newsletter (now online).
The newsletter contains program updates and student biographies.
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 Athletics Update
Kelly
VanValkenburgh (at left), a
fourth-year guard for the ACPHS women's basketball team, scored her
1,000th career point recently. VanValkenburgh enters
select company, joining only three other ACPHS women's basketball
players with 1,000 points -- Rita Leighton, Randi Maurer and Pam
Leonardi. For the season, VanValkenburgh is leading her team with
17.9 points per game.
Basketball
will resume on campus before the holiday break ends, with the men's
team taking on Berkeley
College Sunday,
January 17 and the women's team taking on SUNY-Delhi Monday, January
18. To view results and full schedules, visit the ACPHS Athletics
webpage.
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ACPHS
Photo Gallery
Check out
updated ACPHS event photos online at the College's Picasa photo page.
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Congratulations
Pharmaceutical
Sciences Research Assistant Professor Sertac Yilmaz, and his wife, Fusun, welcomed their
baby girl Alara.
Athletics Director Ryan Venter
and his wife, Christy, welcomed baby girl Grace.
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Welcome
Please
welcome the following new members of the ACPHS community who have
joined the College since November:
Kathleen Carroll -
Dean's Office Administrative Assistant
Patricia DiMuria
- Pharmacy Practice Administrative Assistant
Mark Diodato - Director
of Campus Life
Hye Jung Han - PRI
Research Scientist
David Kile - RIHO
Administrative Director
Maree Michaud-Sacks -
Instructional Technologist
Michael Mello - IT
Software Developer
Catherine Murphy -
Pharmacy Practice Assistant Professor
Yaquan San - PRI Senior
Research Scientist
Julian Spath -
Compensation and Benefits Specialist
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Campus Events
Monday,
January 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, January 19
Classes Resume
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Faculty
Workshop Series (Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in CL 311
and VT 300)
Stay tuned -- FWS will resume next
semester.
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Upcoming CE Programs
Annual
Respiratory Disease Update
Thursday,
January 14, 2010
Annual Infectious Disease Update
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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