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MEDIA RELEASE Lt. Gov. Shan Tsutsui, as acting governor, has announced the release of $33 million for the construction of a 35,000-square-foot instructional and research facility for the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Hilo. “This facility will provide the space needed for students and faculty to learn […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii Board of Regents (BOR) approved a change of status from “provisional” to “established” for the PharmD degree offered at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) in a meeting Aug. 21 on Oahu. “When the College of Pharmacy gets a cold, UH Hilo […]

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MEDIA RELEASE In a report to the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the national accreditation body has extended the accreditation of the only pharmacy school in the Pacific region, reversing an earlier noncompliance finding. The American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has now found DKICP compliant with […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is the newest member of a multinational group working to advance pharmacy education, research, practice, and improve the health and welfare of the people in Thailand. The U.S.-Thai Consortium for the Development of Pharmacy Education in Thailand, founded […]

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The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected John M. Pezzuto, dean of the University of Hawai`i at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, to receive their top research award. Pezzuto receives the 2014 Volwiler Research Achievement Award for his outstanding research and contributions to the field of natural product drug discovery.

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MEDIA RELEASE Dr. Ronald Taniguchi and his wife, Alice, have made a $25,000 pledge to fund an endowed scholarship to support third and fourth year students at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Recipients will be high school graduates from the neighbor islands of Kauai, Molokai and […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy researcher has developed a fun-filled activity book to teach children about a serious health topic associated with cleaning and cooking vegetables in the tropical Hawaiian environment. Dr. Susan Jarvi, associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is distributing a book and poster about […]

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MEDIA RELEASE University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy Dean John Pezzuto has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The announcement was formally made in the AAAS News & Notes section of the Nov. 30, 2012 issue of Science. Pezzuto was honored “for distinguished service in […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A residency program in community pharmacy, giving licensed pharmacists opportunities for further training through the College of Pharmacy (CoP) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, has been awarded national accreditation. “Pharmacy residency programs are similar to training that allows medical doctors to gain postgraduate training,” noted Anita Ciarleglio, assistant professor in CoP’s […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The 89 students who make up the UH-Hilo College of Pharmacy Class of 2016 clebrated their white coat ceremony on Sunday. More than 400 of the students’ peers, professors, friends and families watched the new pharmacists don their coats at the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center. The students recited the “Oath of a […]

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MEDIA RELEASE An assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy (CoP) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has received a career development award of $675,000 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This is a first for UH Hilo, and the only award of this type from the NCI to be given to a Native […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A pharmacist-care system designed to save more than $27.1 million in health care costs in Hawaii will be developed by the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s College of Pharmacy (CoP) thanks to a $14.3 million award from the federal government. The three-year project, called Pharm2Pharm, will be coordinated at CoP’s Center for Rural […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy has earned national ranking as one of the top five new schools of pharmacy in the U.S. News & World Report, according to rankings released March 13, 2012. In the first year of eligibility since admitting its inaugural class in 2007, CoP ranked 74 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii at Hilo has appointed Daniel E. Brown, Ph.D., as principal investigator for the Hawaii Island Beacon Community, a federally funded health care transformation project administered through the UH Hilo College of Pharmacy. As P.I., Brown is responsible for oversight of the project in its final year and will assist […]

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