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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 An agreement between the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Rangsit University (RSU) in Thailand will allow students and faculty more freedom to exchange ideas and experiences. The U.S.-THAI Students and Pharmacists/Faculty Members Exchange Program will give students in the fourth year of pharmacy […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) will receive more than $800,000 a year for five years in federal funding that will help strengthen a collaborative research program with UH Manoa. The IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program in Hawaii, which has been […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Pharmacy students and faculty in China and the U.S. will have more opportunities to work together, thanks to an agreement signed July 26 at The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Officials met at one of DKICP’s administrative locations on Rainbow Drive to sign a […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Students, faculty and staff from The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo teamed up to collect more than $7,000 to support the Hilo Medical Center Foundation Adopt-A-Room Project. The gift was presented to Julie Tulang, president of Hilo Medical Center Foundation, at DKICP’s 2013 Spring Awards […]

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Straney: ‘His vision was that each neighbor island would harbor a center of excellence, that every island should have its own specialty’

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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 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 Nearly 500 scientists who specialize in researching chemical compounds that occur naturally in plants will visit the Big Island Dec. 10-15 for a conference hosted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s College of Pharmacy. The Phytochemical Society of North America holds its 50th Anniversary meeting on the Kohala Coast. The program includes […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii at Hilo is the first in the nation to offer a Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP) degree solely within a College of Pharmacy after an Aug. 25 vote by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Typically offered by schools of psychology, the degree gives clinical psychologists […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A collaboration between the state Department of Education and the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy (CoP) should result in more students understanding engineering concepts and possibly choosing careers that will help build a better Hawaii. The program will be funded through the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Structured […]

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MEDIA RELEASE College of Pharmacy alumni from the University of Hawaii at Hilo have been hired for jobs that require a PharmD degree in 16 states as well as Guam and Washington D.C. at various retail chains, community pharmacies and hospitals. According to a survey conducted by CoP’s Department of Student Services, more than one-third […]

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