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Ohio Northern University students honored with Dankook Award

Ohio Northern University presented Dankook Awards to Jennifer Krauss, a senior mathematics major from Pickerington, Ohio, and Sean McKee, a sixth-year pharmacy major from Salem, Ohio, at ONU’s Honors Day on April 27.

Published: Wed, 05/01/2013 - 11:44am

Ohio Northern pharmacy alumni recognized at OPA conference

Alumni from Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy received two awards and several appointments during the 135th Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, from April 12-14.

Published: Fri, 04/26/2013 - 1:22pm

Ohio Northern University’s NCPA Business Plan Team wins competition

Ohio Northern University’s National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Business Plan Team won the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) third annual Innovative Student Business Plan competition at the 135th OPA Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, on April 13.

Published: Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:17am

Ohio Northern University to conduct drug take back day

Ohio Northern University’s chapter of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) will conduct “Medication Disposal Day,” a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Drug Take Back Day, in the ONU parking lot on the corner of South Main and E. College Avenue on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Published: Mon, 04/15/2013 - 12:07pm

Sen. Hite to speak at National Community Pharmacists Association reception at Ohio Northern University

State Sen. Cliff Hite will be the guest speaker at the National Community Pharmacists Association’s (NCPA) annual legislative reception at The Inn at Ohio Northern University on Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m.

Hite will speak on the topics of entrepreneurship and independent pharmacies, current legislation affecting health care, and the importance and opportunities for student involvement in advocacy.

Published: Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:58am

Pharmacy faculty contribute to book

Capstone Pharmacy Review, a guide developed to assist pharmacy students preparing to sit for the NAPLEX certification exam in pharmacy, includes chapters from five ONU faculty members.

ONU contributors include (in alphabetical order):

Sandra L Hrometz, professor of pharmacology:
“Benign Prostate Hypertrophy;” “Glaucoma;” “Urinary Incontinence;” “Osteoporosis;” and “Special considerations For The Geriatric Patient”

Published: Wed, 04/03/2013 - 11:30am

Ohio Northern University, Walmart establish endowed leadership scholarship

Ohio Northern University has established the Walmart and Sam’s Club Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund for the Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy.

The scholarship will be awarded to academically eligible ONU pharmacy students entering their fourth, fifth or sixth year of pharmacy studies who have demonstrated leadership in pharmacy or to an ONU student organization and have shown interest in community pharmacy.

Published: Tue, 03/26/2013 - 1:26pm

Ohio Northern University receives NACDS Foundation grant to conduct health fairs

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy was awarded a grant from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation in conjunction with the Million Hearts initiative to conduct area health fairs in March as part of the “Heart to Heart Community Health Fairs” campaign.

Published: Tue, 03/26/2013 - 8:43am

Professors author personalized medicine textbook

Three members of the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, along with a member of the Purdue University faculty, have collaborated to author a textbook titled “Pharmacogenetics, Kinetics, and Dynamics for Personalized Medicine.”

Ohio Northern’s David F. Kisor, professor of pharmacokinetics, Jon E. Sprague, dean and professor of pharmacology, Jeffrey N. Talbot, associate professor of pharmacology, and Michael D. Kane, associate professor of bioinformatics and genomics at Purdue, contributed to the textbook, which will be used by pharmacy students and pharmacists.

Published: Wed, 03/20/2013 - 10:33am

Pharmacy student receives APhA scholarship

Victoria Pennington, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Groveport, Ohio, was awarded the Gloria Francke Scholarship as part of the 2013 American Pharmacists Association Foundation Student Scholarship Program.

Published: Wed, 02/20/2013 - 11:35am