Press Releases

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) has received a major gift from MVP Health Care to help launch its new student operated pharmacy located at the Hometown Health Centers (HHC) clinic on State Street in Schenectady. The pharmacy will be managed by a licensed pharmacist with support provided by ACPHS students

COLLEGE LAUNCHES FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN December 1, 2015 – Albany, NY – Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) launched its “Beyond Practice Ready” (BPR) mini-campaign this morning at a kickoff event in the Gozzo Student Center on the College’s Albany campus

In a first-of-a kind alliance for the Capital Region, Hometown Centers (HHC), the county’s only not-for-profit, federally qualified health center, and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS), have signed an agreement for ACPHS to run HHC’s full-service, in-house pharmacy

ALBANY, N.Y. – November 6, 2015 – Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is the #1 ranked school in the country in a new report from the Brookings Institution that measures the contributions of colleges on their students’ outcomes.  A total of 3,173 two-and-four-year institutions were ranked in the study which ascribes each school a “value-added” score based on the earnings of their alumni

  TEAMS HEADED TO NAT'L CHAMPIONSHIPS Both the ACPHS men's and women's soccer teams have earned invitations to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Championship Tournament in Asheville, NC. Tournament play begins on Thursday, November 5

ALBANY, N.Y. – October 14, 2015 – Associate Professor Tom Lodise, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Nimish Patel, Pharm.D., Ph.D., AAHIVP, have each been honored by the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) for their research accomplishments

The ACPHS men's soccer team is ranked #5 and the women's team is ranked #6 in the latest poll from the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA). The men's team has a 9-3 record (5-0 in the HVIAC) and has posted five shutouts in a row by a combined score of 21-0

ALBANY, N.Y. – September 30, 2015 – Amy Barton Pai, Pharm.D., BCPS, FASN, FCCP, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has received a two-year, $203,732 research grant from the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

ALBANY, N.Y. - September 17, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Education has released the "College Scorecard," a new website that details costs, graduation rates, debt, and post-college earnings for more than 7,000 colleges and universities. The Scorecard leverages federal government data stretching back 18 years with the goal of helping students, parents, and their advisers make better college choices

ALBANY, N.Y. – September 15, 2015 – Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Assistant Professor Jo Carreno, Pharm.D., has received a $75,000 research grant from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation to explore a new programmatic approach for treating patients suffering from sepsis