Student team advances in Blueprint Mississippi challenge

Team Rural Health In-House Pharmacy won the first portion of the Blueprint Mississippi Social Business Challenge. The team includes (from left) Nicholas Keeling, Stephanie Sollis, faculty adviser Erin Holmes, Andrew Smelser and Sonja Falvey.

Addressing health disparities and poor health outcomes in the Delta was at the center of a plan developed by six pharmacy students for the Institutions of Higher Learning Blueprint Mississippi Social Business Challenge. The team won first place in the university’s on-campus portion of the competition and will advance to finals in March.

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UM vice chancellor honored as prestigious AAAS fellow

Alice M. Clark

Recognized for her many efforts to advance science on local, state and national levels, vice chancellor Alice M. Clark has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The designation is one of the highest honors in the sciences and engineering, and is shared by only three other current University of Mississippi faculty members.

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Professor meets criteria for elite research award

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists president Marilyn E. Morris presents Soumyajit Majumdar with the Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Outstanding Research Award.

In November, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists honored pharmaceutics and drug delivery professor Soumyajit Majumdar with the Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Outstanding Research Award. He is the first researcher in three years to meet the criteria for the significant honor.

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Award created for environmental toxicology students

Kristine Willett, William Benson and David D. Allen (right)

The newly created William H. Benson Distinguished Graduate Student Award will recognize the most outstanding graduate student in environmental toxicology each year. The award’s namesake is a respected former professor and research leader.

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  Pharmacy Matters, Family Matters:

Game-changing ‘Charlie’

Charles D. Hufford

Charles D. Hufford, associate dean for research and graduate programs, will retire Feb. 1 after more than four decades at the pharmacy school. Highly accomplished in a multitude of areas, Hufford strengthened the school’s research programs, facilitated pivotal construction projects and revamped graduate courses.

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