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When asked about UNCG’s hopes to establish a new pharmacy school by 2011, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp, a smart and impressive man, gingerly tip-toed through an answer.

“It’s not my decision,” Thorp said in a meeting with News & Record editorial writers last March.

Thorp said he would be happy to help UNCG gather information toward its goal.

“The question whether UNCG is the right place for a second school of pharmacy and whether the state needs one — those are things that need to be decided by President Bowles and Chancellor Brady,” he said later, referring to UNCG leader Linda Brady and UNC system President Erskine Bowles.

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The thinking may be convoluted, but higher education tends to benefit from an economic downturn.

It goes something like this, “Now that I’m out of a job, I might as well go back to school,” according to Jay Walls, a representative of the University of North Texas graduate school.

The turnout Wednesday for the Graduate & Professional School Fair held on the campus of Abilene Christian University bore out that thinking. Read more…

BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) – UB has a new master plan that officials say will grow the university, benefit the region and make UB a 21st century model university. Officials unveiled the long-awaited comprehensive physical plan Tuesday night. It calls for more than five billion dollars worth of capital expansion and improvements across all three campuses over the next 20 to 30 years.”It is what is sometimes referred to as b-hag, a big hairy audacious goal,” said Robert Shibely, director of UB’s Urban Design and lead on the master plan project. Read more…

The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing big cuts and the U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest mark since April 1983, but the health-care services sector continues to grow, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The health-care industry added an additional 29,000 jobs in October, nearly the same amount it grew in September. In total, since the start of the recession, the industry has added 597,000 jobs, according to the BLS.

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“That’s why we’re here, and that’s really the only reason we’re here,” said Wilhoit, who bought the business in 1989 after working as a pharmacist in Kingsport and Maryville. “We’re not just waiting for the next $4 prescription. We’re being proactive in wellness and going through the process to offer even more screenings, such as for diabetes,” alerting people who are unaware they have a problem.

Try telling Mac Wilhoit there’s nothing new under the sun. He knows better.

The 61-year-old independent pharmacist has reinvented his North Knoxville business several times, and he’s not through.

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November 05, 2009

Pre-pharmacy club prescribes success

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The Pre-Pharmacy Student Association, a networking tool for prospective pre-pharmacy students, has entered its third year of operation, Krysta Kadlitz, a senior from Chattanooga and association’s president, said.

“We give students valuable knowledge for the [Pharmacy College Admissions Test] dates and study tools, pharmacy school admission process and guidelines and friendship from peers pursing the same goals,” she said.

“We also take trips to local pharmacy schools to give students perspectives into what these schools are looking for in potential candidates…so they can better position themselves… to succeed,” Kadlitz said.

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