Posted Feb. 18 - Trent Towne, associate professor of pharmacy practice, has been recognized for serving as a faculty member of the 2019 ASHP Pharmacotherapy Core Therapeutic Modules. Towne developed content for the Select Topics in Infectious Diseases: Part I module. 

Posted Feb. 18 - Alex Mills, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, will participate in a panel discussion in March about the challenges of caring for persons living with HIV and the history of treatment. The panel is in conjunction with a film presentation at Cordier Auditorium. 

Posted Feb. 18 - Sarah Lauck, administrative assistant, was named to the Dean’s Highest Honors list for the fall 2019 semester at Saint Mary of the Woods College. Lauck is studying for a bachelor’s degree in human services with a minor in psychology.

Posted Feb. 18 - Rob Beckett, associate professor of pharmacy practice, contributed to two podium presentations at the Interim Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The topics were “Successful Leadership Transition Strategies” and “Use of a Situational Judgment Test to Teach Professional Behavior Norms.”

Posted Feb. 18 - Mike Bottorff, professor and chair of pharmacy practice, has been selected to serve on an American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Executive Steering Committee exploring anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation in older adults across different living environments. ASCP will partner with the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) on supporting research into the current use of anticoagulants in people older than 65 by living environment, by location and socioeconomic factors.

Posted Feb. 18 - Teresa Beam, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics, is featured in the January edition of Fort Wayne Business Weekly Magazine. The story regards Manchester’s plans to offer a Master of Science degree in nutrition and nutrigenomics (MSNGx). Beam will lead the graduate-level phase in Fort Wayne.

Posted Feb. 18 - Trent Towne, associate professor of pharmacy practice and a local expert on infectious disease, was invited to write an article for the new quarterly newsletter, Communicable Infectious Disease Network of Allen County (CIDNAC). This publication examines infectious issues in the community with a clinical, laboratory and legal perspective. Towne’s article addressed treating gonococcal infections.

Posted Feb. 18 - Ryan Ades, assistant professor of pharmacy practice and assistant director of experiential education, and Tommy Smith, dean of Pharmacy Programs, accompanied a group of students Jan. 21 to the Indiana Statehouse for the Indiana Pharmacists Association Legislative Day. The following day, Ades testified before the State Senate in favor of SB 241 regarding pharmacy benefit managers.

Posted Jan. 29 - Leonard Williams, professor of political science and dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences, has published a paper titled “The Democracy Problem.” It appears in the journal Theory in Action, which recently published an issue on anarchism and democracy. Read it here.

Posted Jan. 27 - A crossword puzzle by Professor Leonard Williams, dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences, was published Monday, Jan. 27. “Shady Business” is available online.  Solve the puzzle in print via the Chicago Sun-Times or the Goshen News.