NACDS Education Foundation awards scholarships

Drug Store News, June 17, 2002

Caption: Some pharmacy schools have all the luck. Drawing the top scholarship award of $20,000 for the second straight year at the NACDS Education Foundation Pharmacy Alliance's annual scholarship awards program at the NACDS Annual Meeting was the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy. The $20,000 award is supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb's, U.S. Medicines Group. Shown here are Wayne Roberts of Bristol-Myers Squibb, originator of the scholarship awards program; Sandra Jung of the NACDS Education Foundation; Farid Sadik, Ph.D., dean of the college; and Vince Bilinsky and Frank Valenti, both of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The Annual Meeting was held at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.

Accepting a $10,000 scholarship award supported by Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals on behalf of Auburn University's lames I. Harrison School of Pharmacy is Dean R. Lee Evans Jr., Pharm.D., second from left, flanked by David Albachten, left, vice president of managed care, trade and government for Novo Nordisk; Sandra lung of the NACDS Education Foundation; and Patrick Quinn, senior director of trade for Novo Nordisk.

Winner of a $10,000 scholarship provided by AstraZeneca is the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Shown here are David Maher--who is serving as vice president of the NACDS Education Foundation; Harvey Maldow, director of pharmacy affairs for AstraZeneca; Sandra Jung of the NACDS Education Foundation; William Riffee, Ph.D., dean of the college; and Marilyn Maher.

Flanked by David Maher and his wife Marilyn are the winners of the $7,500 George T. Hilden Scholarship Awards. Hilden, who died last year, was chairman and a founder of Osco Drug, a past NACDS chairman and a longtime consultant with Hallmark Cards. Shown here are Daniel Robinson, Pharm.D., dean of Northeastern University's Bouve College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy; and Stephen Gross, Ed.D., dean of Long Island University's Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy. Each school won $7,500.

Other schools receiving scholarships

$5,000

* Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

* The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy $2,500

* Albany College of Pharmacy

* Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy

* University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

* University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

* University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy

* University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy

* Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy

$2,000

* Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy

* Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy

* St. Louis College of Pharmacy

* University of the Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences