Posted March 15 - Greg Hetrick, director of student services-pharmacy, will present on “Enrolling and Graduating the Right Students: Challenges and Strategies in an Ever-Changing Pharmacy Landscape” at the Indiana Pharmacists’ Alliance Annual Meeting on April 12 in Noblesville. Greg also will participate in a panel about pharmacy marketing and enrollment at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting Admissions Workshop in July in Chicago.

Posted March 15 - McKenzie Grubb, admissions counselor for pharmacy programs, and Julie Cogley-Pifko, assistant director for enrollment and student services-pharmacy, will present at the 2019 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Admissions Workshop in July in Chicago, Their presentation is titled “Educating the Next Generation of Pharmacists.” At the same meeting, Julie also will present at a session titled “PharmGRAD 101.”  

Posted March 11 - Senior biology majors Kristy Chelius and Alison Chandler, in collaboration with their faculty mentor Cassie Gohn, assistant professor of biology, won second place with their abstract and poster presentation at the Indiana chapter meeting of the American Physiological Association.  Their work was based on a summer research project, “the effect of glyburide on murine prenatal development.”

Posted March 8 - Seth Mayer, assistant professor of philosophy, presented research March 7 on philosophical issues related to mass incarceration at the Northeastern Illinois University philosophy colloquium in Chicago.

Posted Feb. 27 - Anne Gregory, assistant director in the Office of Strategic Communications, is a judge at the Journal Gazette Regional Spelling Bee at 10 a.m. March 9 in Auer Auditorium at Purdue University Fort Wayne's Rhinehart Music Center. Spellers from 15 counties in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio will compete. The winner of the regional bee will compete at the 92nd Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May.

Posted Feb. 27 - Elton Skendaj, Muir Associate Professor in Peace Studies, has written a collaborative peer-reviewed article, “Local Ownership and International Oversight: Police Reform in post-Yugoslav States,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article investigates the role of local leadership in the construction of police forces after wars.

Skendaj also published a 2018 review of the Gëzim Visoka’s book, Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood, at the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. The book investigates the role that international and local actors have played in postwar Kosovo’s peacebuilding and statebuilding.

Skendaj also contributed his expertise on European politics to Freedom in the World 2019 (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2019/democracy-in-retreat) report published by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that publishes annual reports on the state of democracy and political freedom around the world. The report found that democracy is in retreat in the USA and around the world as 68 countries experienced declines in political rights and civil liberties.  

Posted Feb. 25 - A crossword puzzle created by Leonard Williams, dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences and professor of political science, appears in the Feb. 27 edition of The Wall Street Journal. If you don’t get the paper in print you can find the puzzle, which has a political theme, here. 

Posted Feb. 15 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, will co-present on “Effect of a Multi-Setting, Interprofessional TOC Pathway on 30-day Readmissions in Older Adult Heart Failure Patients” at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., May 2-4, 2019.  At the same conference, she will co-present on “Effect of Geriatric Pharmacist TOC Interventions on Heart Failure Readmission Rates.”

At the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in July, she will co-present on “One Size Does Not Fit All: Customized Approaches to Designing, Operationalizing, and Assessing the Co-Curriculum” and  “Innovative Ways of Keeping It ‘Old School.’” The AACP will meet in Chicago.

Posted Feb. 15 - Sara Trovinger has been accepted to present on “Tackling PPCP Challenges: Tactics for Engaging Preceptors through the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Chicago July 13-17, 2019. She is director of experiential education and assistant professor of pharmacy practice. 

Posted Feb. 15 - Ryan Ades, assistant director of experiential education, testified before the Indiana House of Representatives Insurance Committee on Jan. 30 in Indianapolis. Ades voiced his support for an amendment to House Bill 1180, which would increase regulation of pharmacy benefit managers.  Ades has worked closely with the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance (IPA) Legislative Regulatory Council in his role as President of the Indiana Academy of Community Pharmacists to craft legislation advancing the pharmacy profession and decreasing health care costs.