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Grad students – follow in Tiara Hinton's footsteps and apply by Aug. 9 to be a Graduate AmbassadorLooking for a resume builder while earning some money toward your tuition? The Graduate Ambassador program provides grad students an opportunity to give back through a variety of methods, including events, webinars, virtual and in-person meetings with prospective grad students, and social media posts. The program pays a tuition scholarship of $500 in fall semester $500 in the winter semester.
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Alumnus Rony Foumia '99 wins Pharmacist of the Year award from the Michigan Society of Community PharmacistsFoumia is passionate about helping the less fortunate and those in need, along with mentoring dozens of pharmacy students across the country. He is also actively involved in helping combat the opioid crisis by holding community events throughout Michigan.
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy Moh Malek earns prestigious Century Citation Club honorThe premise of the Century Citation Club is that 100 citations represents a citation rate roughly twice the average for The Journal of Physiology and then maintained for a decade — these papers are exceptional, they have made their mark and have changed their fields.
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WSU PharmSci research funded by NIH may lead to new treatment for diabetic wound healingWith the help of a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, the team — led by Zhengping Yi, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences and Jiemei Wang, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences — will explore the molecular mechanisms of an FDA-approved oral formula of the small molecules trans-resveratrol (tRES) and hesperetin (HESP) to assess its effect on diabetic wound healing in cell culture and animal models.
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Mortuary Science program enewsletter: Spring/summer 2021Read the latest from the Wayne State Mortuary Science program in the spring/summer 2021 enewsletter.
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Wayne State's Lambda Kappa Sigma chapter earns three awards during national convention“During this pandemic year, I am so proud of Omicron, led by President Ahlam Daoud, Past President Samantha Langell and President-Elect Jewel Konja,” said Dr. Mary Beth O’Connell, the chapter’s faculty advisor and WSU Applebaum professor of pharmacy practice. “Our members did very well with recruiting P1s and keeping all the sisters together during the pandemic, providing much needed help, stress reduction, fun, comradery and so much more.”
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Kappa Psi brothers receive Up to Us scholarship to Harvard Business School programThe prize results from the Wayne State team placing sixth in the nation while winning the Most Creative Campaign special award from the Up to Us national debt awareness competition. Part of their semester-long effort concentrated on the economic impact of COVID-19, the CARES Act, spending habits of Americans during quarantine, unemployment and the pandemic’s burden on the American health care system.
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Q&A with Excellence in Teaching Award-winning Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice Dennis Parker"I try to connect with people, and get to know a little something about them," said Dr. Dennis Parker. "People feel more engaged when they feel valued by the instructor. I try to give students plenty of opportunities to chime in with their opinions on the subject matter. I do this with interactive discussion questions to try to facilitate engagement."
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Q&A with Excellence in Teaching Award-winning Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy Nora Fritz"PTs and OTs work together regularly, so it’s critically important for the students to understand the strengths of each profession so they can co-treat or refer appropriately," Dr. Fritz said. "During a typical year, students would work closely in small groups, but with distance learning we used breakout rooms and large group discussion to highlight differences and similarities in PT and OT practice, and how each profession might approach a problem."
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WJR: Dr. Paul Kilgore discusses COVID-19 vaccines on Health Watch with Dick HaefnerDr. Paul Kilgore, associate professor and director of research at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, spoke with WJR’s Dick Haefner about the next steps for COVID vaccinations.
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MortSci student-athlete Maddie Schmoker named to GLIAC All-Academic Excellence TeamStudent-athlete Maddie Schmoker, a student in the WSU Applebaum Mortuary Science bachelor's degree program, maintained a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5 during the indoor track and field season to earn a place on the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.
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Scienmag: Prof. Paul Stemmer's NIH grant to bring proteomic research capabilities to Wayne State"The new ThermoFisher Scientific Orbitrap Eclipse mass spectrometer will aid researchers at Wayne State by giving them new knowledge about changes in protein abundance as well as an improved understanding of the status in signaling pathways underlying the development and progression of disease," said WSU Applebaum Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Paul Stemmer. In addition to advancing science and technology at WSU and in the surrounding vicinity, the instrument will aid in training students and postdocs, provide an opportunity for underserved K-12 students in Detroit to engage in hands-on educational activities, and enable product development at both startups and established local companies.
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OT student-athlete Allison Lennig named to GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team for third straight seasonTo be named to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team, student-athletes must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5. In all, the Wayne State University women's swimming and diving program had 15 GLIAC All-Academic recipients, which ranked third in the league.
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Major NIH award to WSU to offer state-of-the-art proteomic research capabilities led by PharmSci Prof. Paul StemmerWayne State University has been awarded a $1.29 million high instrumentation grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer for identification and quantitation of proteins in biomedical research samples. According to Paul Stemmer, Ph.D., the principal investigator of the project and professor of pharmaceutical sciences in Wayne State’s Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and in the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the system will bring new capabilities to the Proteomics Core Facility that will create research directions currently not possible at Wayne State.
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Dr. Richard Lucarotti aces 45-year Wayne State career with professor emeritus honorIn his role as WSU Applebaum's associate dean for pharmacy, Richard Lucarotti was instrumental in significantly revising the PharmD curriculum in 2016 to meet the evolving needs of the pharmacy profession.
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WDET: Dr. Paul Kilgore says virus getting faster, more efficient at transmissionWSU Applebaum Professor of Pharmacy Practice Paul Kilgore says the delta variant could be an issue this fall for unvaccinated people, citing hot spots appearing in areas in Texas where there is a lack of vaccination. “The virus is getting much better at moving from one person to another,” he says. “That means that the virus can be transmitted much quicker, much more efficiently. So I’m particularly worried about unvaccinated populations in Detroit. I’m extremely concerned about this coming fall.”
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All are welcome at COVID-19 vaccine town hall June 29Do you or your family members have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? WSU Applebaum experts can help!
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Ask a Mentor helps prospective students explore Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia programOn June 29 at 5 p.m., a one-hour virtual Q&A session will connect prospective students with those currently studying nurse anesthesia. The panelists will answer questions about their program and offer admission tips.
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Friends of Fighting AIDS with Nutrition attend Detroit Tigers Pride NightThis year alone, FAWN sent almost 5,500 units of liquid nutrition to those abroad living with HIV/AIDS. The philanthropic organization looks forward to expanding its reach and to possibly establish chapters at other colleges and universities within the state of Michigan.
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PharmD alumnus Frank Prano '20 vaccinates a WSU Applebaum VIPInterim Dean Cathy Lysack is back in Detroit! Yesterday, she received her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a local CVS, where Wayne State PharmD alumnus Frank Prano '20 is the pharmacist. Read what she had to say about the experience.
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College Research Day is Oct. 20: How to prepareThe 18th annual Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Research Day will be held virtually, with a keynote lecture by Arthur Kim, MD, and student awards presented live on Zoom from 10-11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20. College Research Day offers the opportunity to showcase your work alongside WSU Applebaum scholars of all levels and disciplines.
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Women 18-45 asked to respond to Research Scholars project survey: Did COVID-19 affect women's reproductive health?Wayne State Doctor of Pharmacy Research Scholar Karli Pelaccio (P3) and Professor of Pharmacy Mary Beth O'Connell are principal investigators on a research study exploring sexual health and behaviors, and contraception use and access during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Prof. Christopher Gill '13 named chief credentialing officer of nurse anesthetist certifying boardThe National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) has named Dr. Christopher Gill, PhD, MBA, CRNA, as its new Chief Credentialing Officer following a nationwide search for this position.
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AMCP, SNPhA, SPPA support Kappa Psi’s Reach Out and Read initiativeKappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity has adopted Reach Out and Read as its national philanthropy and Wayne State’s Mu Omicron Pi chapter of Kappa Psi has been supporting this initiative over the past academic year through book donation drives and fundraisers. Over the spring semester, the WSU brothers of Kappa Psi invited other student organizations at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to join in supporting their childhood literacy program.
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Students return to Detroit Riverwalk for community health screeningsOn June 8, students from the WSU Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences joined with School of Medicine students to screen blood pressures of 50 patients ranging in age from 53 to 87 years old. Pharmacy Preceptor and Adjunct Assistant Professor Rima Charara, PharmD, worked with the students and patients.
