But there were dozens of other events both big and small that helped weave the local fabric of 2009. Gov. Deval Patrick spent a day here visiting with business, government and arts representatives. The Provincetown Cemetery filled up, leading to a discussion on how to expand the burial grounds. A new ladder truck was delivered, replacing the one destroyed in an accident last year. The Bradford pear trees that line the sidewalk to Town Hall were saved. And off-leash beach rights were restored to dog owners.

Here is a look at some of the stories that had a significant impact on life in Provincetown over the past year.

Reworking a school system
After years of avoiding the subject, town residents and a new school superintendent convinced the school committee to directly address restructuring the school district. As the student population continued to decrease, residents overwhelmingly voted at the April Annual Town Meeting to establish a regional school district planning committee to explore the possibility of merging Provincetown’s schools with the Nauset Regional School District. The three-person committee’s report is supposed to be presented at the 2009 ATM.
However, it took until Oct. 13 for the committee to hold its first meeting, a delay that concerned both selectmen and Town Moderator Irene Rabinowitz, who appointed the committee. As a result, selectmen voted unanimously in July to send a letter to the school committee urging action. Since then, school committee chair Peter Grosso stepped forward to be the district’s representative on the committee and two residents, Alex Brown and Barbara Rushmore, volunteered to serve.

Shortly after that, in November, the new school superintendent, Dr. Beth Singer, proposed that the school committee hold its own talks about the future of the school district. After a lengthy and often emotional discussion, committee members agreed to organize a series of workshops open to the public that begin planning for the future of a different school district.

In tourism
The 2009 tourism season in Provincetown was a mixed bag but there were some sighs of relief that it wasn’t worse in this uncertain economy.
Booking rates for vacation rental homes on Cape Cod and the Islands were down 5.7 percent over the 2008 season, according to WeNeedaVacation.com, an Internet vacation booking site. A cold and wet June and half of July discouraged visitors but great weather through the rest of the summer and into the fall helped increase those numbers.

Still, the tourists who did arrive kept a strong grip on their wallets, cutting back on shopping across the board from artwork to fudge, based on reports from several local business owners, And many visitors who normally would have booked a week’s stay in town reduced that to four or five nights; there were often last-minute weekend vacancies available.

Retail stores reported revenue declines between 20 and 30 percent. But based on anecdotal evidence, it seems that the number of daytrippers was about even with last year. At the town’s municipal parking lots, the number of drivers was almost flat compared with the same April through August period in 2008.

“The overall picture was not great,” Provincetown Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Candy Collins-Boden said, referring to visitor spending. “But Provincetown could have done worse.”

Town Hall restoration
The last phase of the $6.54 million repair and restoration of the 123-year-old building began on Aug. 25, after voters approved funding at both the April Annual Town Meeting and the June Special Town Meeting. Phase 2, which will renovate and restore the interior of the historic building, as well as replace outdated electrical and heating systems, will take approximately one and a half years to complete.

Park project
Ambitious planning on the part of town leaders ran into resistance from some residents over a proposal to turn the municipal parking lot into a waterfront park, transportation gateway and visitors center. As part of that proposal, public parking would be moved to a proposed parking structure to be built on the site of the Duarte’s parking lot at the corner of Bradford and Standish streets. The idea of adding a 700-car, multi-level parking facility on the Duarte’s property — assuming the town was successful in purchasing it — worried some residents but selectmen said no design would be finalized without a series of public forums. In the meantime, the town is waiting to hear if its application for $25 million in federal stimulus money to pay for the project will be approved, a decision that is expected in February.

As the market turns
Although the takeover of the former Grand Union grocery store on Shank Painter Road by Stop & Shop actually took place on Dec. 12, 2008, the impact of the renovation of the town’s only grocery store was fully felt in 2009. The produce was fresher, there were more items available and a new, expanded pharmacy was built this past year. There were some complaints that it was taking longer to fill drug prescriptions over the summer months, however, prompting selectmen to write a letter of concern to the new managers.

Pharmacy no more
The reason there was a crush at the Stop & Shop pharmacy was largely due to the new market buying the prescription business of long-time Adams Pharmacy, which took the word “pharmacy” off of its sign. Adams, in business in Provincetown since 1875, sold that part of its business to Stop & Shop in March.

Art barn
Another change in a long-time fixture in Provincetown was the sale of the barn that housed the legendary Hawthorne School of Art and gave birth to Provincetown’s reputation as an international art colony. It was sold by its long-time owner Olga Opsahl-Gee, who with her late husband, Peter Gee, operated the art school since 1994. The new owner, Joshua Prager, has not revealed what he plans to do with the barn, although he said he would use it as a residence part of the year and have arts programming there the rest of the time.

Pru Sowers can be reached at psowers@provincetownbanner.com

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In an email press release sent Monday afternoon, Coupeville Town Marshal David Penrod described the robber as approximately 5-feet, 6-inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a dark colored hooded jacket or sweatshirt, dark colored jeans, a black mask, and brandished a silver handgun.

Deputies with the Coupeville Marshal’s Office were on scene within one minute, closely followed by the Island County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies conducted an extensive search of the immediate area, but were unable to locate the suspect.

Coupeville deputies, Island County Sheriff’s deputies and State Patrol troopers’ vehicles flashed their lights along Main Street, Highway 20 and Broadway Avenue in an effort to set up a perimeter around the pharmacy.

“You’ve got to plug up the holes you know you have,” said Lt. Evan Tingstad with the Island County Sheriff’s Office.

Coupeville schools were locked down for more than an hour while deputies checked the areas surrounding them.

There were eight people in the store at the time of the robbery, including a pharmacist, two pharmacy assistants, two technicians and three college students who were helping with store inventory, general manager Adam Lind said. No one was injured during the robbery.

“The crew is a little shaken up,” he said.

The man cleared out the pharmacy’s supply of OxyContin, a highly addictive prescription pain medication.

“He took everything we had on the shelf in every strength,” Lind said.

Investigators dusted for finger prints and lifted a shoe print the robber left after he vaulted over the front counter on his way out, Lind said.

The pharmacy remained open after the robbery and continued to filled prescription requests by customers who seemed unaware of the morning heist.

Law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate the incident and review the store’s video surveillance system.

“The suspect is still at large and the investigation is being conducted by the Island County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of the Coupeville Marshal’s Office,” Marshal Penrod wrote in the press release.

A Skagit County Sheriff’s Office search dog and handler were initially called in to help with the search effort. The unit was called off because officials couldn’t find anything to give the animals a scent trail, according to Island County Sheriff Mark Brown.

During the lock down, Coupeville Elementary School kids were kept in classrooms and the windows were blacked out. The exterior doors were locked at the high school and middle school. The district lifted the lock down at 11:45 a.m.

Anyone with information regarding the crime should contact Detective Sgt. Mike Beech of the Island County Sheriff’s Office, 678-4422, or call 911. Anonymous tips may be left with the Island County Tip Line at 679-7319.

More details about the lockdown and the reported robbery to follow.

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“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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What that precisely meant was unclear. But it did not appear to be a ringing endorsement.

When pressed about opinions on his campus, Thorp was equally nimble, if uninformative. “Well, you know universities are places where there are lots of opinions,” he said. “There is certainly some skepticism about it but there are some other people who think it makes sense.”

In any event, he said, it wasn’t their decision to make, either.

(He was a lot more forthcoming about Tar Heel basketball.)

But being opposed to a new pharmacy school “isn’t part of the UNC culture,” Thorp said, reassuringly.

That was then.

That was before UNC-CH began pursuing its own plans for a satellite pharmacy school at UNC-Asheville. This would not be a full-fledged school like the one envisioned for Greensboro, where as many as 100 students would enroll. But it would involve up to 40 students and would compete for funding at a time when state money is hard to come by.

As of now, there are three schools of pharmacy in North Carolina: the lone public one in Chapel Hill and private ones at Campbell and Wingate universities.

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A major premise in its long-range plans to establish a school, say UNCG officials, is the acute shortage of pharmacists in the state. Their proposal cites a 2008 report by the Pharmacy Manpower Project that ranked North Carolina and Wisconsin as the two states with the most serious shortages of pharmacists.

Some UNC-CH officials counter that the shortage isn’t as great now as it was thought to be before because of the recession.

Why then, the need for another program in Asheville?

And recessions do eventually end. The pharmacy school is a much longer-term proposition.

UNC-CH’s timing also is, well, suspicious. UNCG’s plan has been on the table for months. The Chapel Hill plan was either a well-kept secret or a late development.

Brady said Thursday that she learned of the Chapel Hill proposal at the end of September. “My sense is it had not been in the works very long,” she said.

There may be no calling dibs in these matters, but shouldn’t Chapel Hill at least have touched bases with UNCG as a professional courtesy?

“People have different approaches,” Brady said.

Even so, she added, “I personally don’t view the Chapel Hill concept as a competitor. It’s very different from what we’re proposing here.”

UNCG would offer the professional-level and graduate degrees, including doctorates, and include a significant research component.

She said UNCG’s provost, David Perrin, interim UNC-CH vice chancellor and provost Bruce Carney and the UNC system’s vice president for academic affairs, Alan Mabe, will meet within the next two weeks to discuss the two proposals.

“I don’t think it’s helpful for us to be competitors,” she said. “Sometimes that’s the case, but it would be good for the two institutions to sit down and talk about the two plans and the state’s needs.”

No offense to Asheville, but the arguments for a school here are compelling: the economic impact; backing from the Moses Cone Health System and influential local foundations; the impact on downtown, if it should be built there; synergy in research with the N.C. A&T/UNCG Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.

“Our argument is not only an educational argument,” Brady said. “It’s an economic development argument.”

The Asheville initiative definitely would cost considerably less up front. But UNCG expects a return of as much as $28 for every dollar invested, including between $5 million and $6 million a year in sponsored research and $6.5 million in annual tuition revenue.

For her part, UNCG’s Brady was clearly expecting statesmanship to trump turf concerns.

“The first chancellor to call me following my appointment here was Holden Thorp,” she said.

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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.

A steady flow of prospects began circulating through the exhibit room shortly after the fair started. Walls wasn’t surprised.

“Enrollment has gone up because of the economy,” he said. “Schools tend to do better when the economy is down.”

Wednesday’s fair was sponsored by the West Central Texas Career Consortium, which consists of eight local colleges and universities and Dyess Air Force Base.

Ben Klein, who is on schedule to receive a master’s degree in clinical psychology from ACU in May, credited the economy with forcing him to make some decisions. Klein browsed the tables set up by about 25 institutions, picking up literature and learning about their doctoral programs.

“If more jobs were out there and more money was out there, I might just stop with my master’s,” Klein said.

But because of limited well-paying positions for clinical psychologists with only a master’s degree, Klein decided to check out doctoral programs.

And, he is looking into possibly joining the military as a means of paying for the degree. At least two branches of the service — Army and Air Force — offer scholarships for doctoral degrees with a military commitment after graduation, Klein said.

Deciding to go directly into a doctoral program, rather than working first, and getting the military to pay for it is a direct result of a slumping economy, Klein said.

Jace Jones, who was manning a table for the University of North Texas School of Public Health, faced the same situation as Klein. He has a master’s degree in health policy and management, but a doctorate is needed for higher-paying jobs.

So, Jones decided to increase his value by working on a doctorate. He would have started work with the master’s degree if good jobs had been available.

“There just weren’t that many out there,” he said.

On the flip side, the recruiting is picking up.

“It’s been kind of good for graduate schools,” he said.

Another man with an easy job Wednesday was Make Nall, who represented the Texas Tech University School of Pharmacy in Abilene.

The school has enrolled 40 students each year since opening, with a current enrollment of 120. Next year’s 40 will bring the school to its maximum enrollment. Even without a bad economy, the pharmacy schools gets more applicants than it can handle, Nall said.

Last year, between 600 and 700 people applied. But the economic downturn has brought some unusual applicants such as a chiropractor and a few physicians. The physicians are applying from rural areas, Nall said, because small clinics are hiring more physician’s assistants than doctors. Physicians leaving those clinics are enrolling in pharmacy schools because the entry level pay for a pharmacist can be as high as $140,000 a year, Nall said.

Another recruiter not having any trouble Wednesday was Mark Cortez, field representative for Walden University, an accredited online institution of higher learning. The flexibility offered by an online education draws working people and other nontraditional students, Cortez said. The poor economy just adds to the mix.

“It’s been big,” Cortez said. “People have been having a hard time finding a job.”

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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.

The biggest month-to-month jump came in the category of health care and social assistance, which added approximately 3,400 positions.

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And like in September, there was growth across all health-care sectors, including in hospitals, ambulatory-care settings and in doctors’ offices.

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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.

Since 1989 Wilhoit has offered his thousands of customers free deliveries, drug screenings and counseling. Now an innovative medication alert service is free to customers, all from the humble building on Washington Pike.

The small pharmacy stocks no groceries, cosmetics or beer at the store’s front end. Instead, medication counseling takes up that space. Prescription medicines are the bulk of the business, and Wilhoit and his staff greet his return “patients” by first name, accompanied by a pat on the back.

For years Wilhoit has responded with a flat “no” to national drugstore chain buyout offers. And Mac’s Pharmacy recently added another store – this time with his son managing. Wilhoit recently bought Edgemoor Pharmacy in Claxton, renamed it Mac’s Pharmacy and celebrated a reopening in October.

In an economy where business takeovers are the norm and chain stores are in every neighborhood, Mac’s Pharmacy is bucking the trend. Wilhoit believes he joins thousands of small businesses leading the nation’s economic recovery. Mac’s Pharmacy is part of a national group of 3,500 independently owned stores. The Leader Pharmacies network helps independent stores leverage competitive medication pricing.

“I’ve had lots of offers from chains, and I have nothing against them. It’s just not for me,” says Wilhoit, who has handed down the same philosophy to his son Mike.

Mike Wilhoit, 27, worked briefly for a chain drugstore following graduation from the University of Tennessee but soon returned to the family business.

“I know this other more personal side of pharmaceutical care,” said Mike Wilhoit. “It’s what my dad has always offered. And it’s what I’ve always wanted since I was a boy, wearing my own little white coat when I would visit the store.”

The store’s customer offerings range from a wellness program of free children’s multivitamins to a computer-generated dosage alert notification.

“We’re the same since 1989, only different,” Wilhoit said.

“We began by taking care of our patients, and we’re keeping that up by changing it up and offering more. It’s another way to differentiate ourselves and make Mac’s something extra,” he said.

Recently the pharmacy piloted “Medicine on Time,” a service that offers a monthly color-coded calendar card containing maintenance medications. Wilhoit says the new system does the hard work, helping elderly patients keep their freedom longer.

Prescriptions are filled as usual and inserted into a daily dosage punch-out card. The program is offered on a free trial basis.

“This is done in nursing homes, but not usually by local pharmacies,” he says. “And when home health nurses administer medications, it is more expensive for the patient.”

Mac’s also recently created “My Dose Alert,” a free automatic notification that alerts customers by phone, text message or e-mail when it’s time to take their medications.

“Research tells us that one out of every two patients do not take their medicine as prescribed, on time,” Mike Wilhoit says. “More than 80 percent cite forgetfulness as the main reason. That means the majority of people simply need a friendly reminder, and that’s what we’re offering the entire community for free if they buy their medication here.”

The high-tech and high-touch approach appeals to UT pharmacy school interns, says Wilhoit.

About a dozen students intern annually at Mac’s Pharmacy, a relationship that is growing, Wilhoit says.

“UT’s pharmacy school is still new, so we know more students will intern. And we show the students the other side – what an independent pharmacy looks like, and they love it. They see our technology, the robotics systems that fill prescriptions, and that technology allows them to get closely involved with our patients.”

Wilhoit says independent pharmacies are competitive in price, even cheaper, but it’s not their primary focus. Wilhoit’s answer to one-stop shopping is health care for his customers.

“That’s simply why I’m here. We even call insurance companies and physicians for our patients when they are having trouble with a prescription. We get on the phone for them. This is why I remain an independent pharmacy. I’m at liberty to create my own job satisfaction and give back to the community,” Wilhoit says.

“I don’t want people to come to Mac’s for price, or leave because of price.”

Mary Leidig is a freelance contributor to the News Sentinel.

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“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.

The Pre-Pharmacy Student Association visited Lipscomb and Belmont Oct. 20, Lindsey Narramore, a junior from Dunlap, Ga. and secretary of the organization, said.

“We went to get a better feel for the admissions process of graduate school,” she said.

Kadlitz said the trip to Lipscomb and Belmont was great.

“The faculty and staff were very welcoming. They went over the requirements for admission, the interviewing process, and welcomed any questions we had,” she said.

“At Lipscomb…they gave us an ‘inside scoop’ on what to expect in professional school and some tips on how to make ourselves look more competitive,” Narramore said. “Belmont is in the process of building a brand new pharmacy school, and they had a lot to say about the excitement of such an upcoming event.”

Kadlitz said, “We also had an opportunity to see students who previously attended UTC and are currently students at Lipscomb.”

During the school year, Pre-Pharmacy Student Association participates in canned food drives, coat drives and visits local nursing homes, according to Kadlitz.

According to Kadlitz, the organization has planned to work with the American Marketing Association and Sticky Fingers for a canned food drive to benefit the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.

Pre-Pharmacy Student Association is also fundraising and putting together a raffle, Narramore said.

“We plan on getting the entire campus involved,” she said.

Prizes for the raffle will include gas cards and gift cards with tickets selling for $1 per entry, Kadlitz said.

“The proceeds will go directly to the Pre-Pharmacy Student Association and may be used for a charitable donation next semester,” she said.

Kadlitz said the pharmacy and health care based professions are very rewarding.

“The pharmacy profession is dedicated to service to others,” she said. “You have to have a passion for the career and really care for others.”

Narramore said the organization has been a positive experience for her.

“I have met a lot of intelligent and inspired people,” Narramore

Aside from making friends, it gives me a lot of exposure to the pharmacy profession that I would not have necessarily had if I wasn’t involved with such a group of people.”

Narramore said trips to prospective pharmacy programs at other schools have been exciting and enriched her sense of the future and are useful to her planned career.

Narramore said. “I learned that the thought of graduate school isn’t so far-fetched anymore and I’m a lot less intimidated by the application process.”

Kadlitz said the UTC Pre-Pharmacy Student Association is available for anyone interested in joining.

“We are here for guidance and mentorship throughout the admission progress,” she said.

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Edwardsville, Ill. (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 3, 2009 — The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy has been awarded — along with the Saint Louis University Department of Pharmacology and Physiology — a $974,024 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study ways of relieving chronic pain through new approaches in treating neuroinflammation.

Funding for the NIH grant was made possible in part by federal stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Professor Daniela Salvemini, an associate professor of pharmacological and physiological science at the SLU School of Medicine, and William Neumann, an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the SIUE School of Pharmacy, are the project’s principal researchers who will be studying how “peroxynitrite” (produced in the body in inflammatory settings) can actually cause chronic pain when the body produces too much of the chemical.

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According to the research abstract filed by Salvemini and Neumann, chronic pain is a global problem but in the United States alone one third of Americans suffer from it. However, about 30 percent of those chronic pain sufferers report that drugs now available on the market do not help the problem.

“When you have inflammation in the body,” Neumann explained, “reactive oxygen species and free radicals are produced, which can lead to formation of the neurotoxic molecule, peroxynitrite. Normally, these reactive molecules are kept under tight wraps by the body’s own antioxidant defense systems.

“But, if these systems become compromised, as in a state of chronic pain, it actually can make the problem worse. We’ll be looking at creating a synthetic enzyme that will go in and destroy the peroxynitrite.”

Over the past decade, Salvemini’s pioneering research led to the discovery of peroxynitrite. “We discovered the substance … which turns out to be very important in the development of pain and inflammation. If we target that molecule, we hope we can find new therapies with fewer side effects,” said Salvemini.

“Currently, pain is often poorly managed. Our hope is to find better ways to eliminate human suffering.”

The two-year grant is being administered through the NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal And Skin Diseases. “By using various accepted lab methods, we will try to create in rats arthritic conditions and see how they react to the pharmacology we introduce,” Neumann said. “The broad potential therapeutic use of these new analgesic agents we’re proposing is not a part of current pain management drugs,” he said.

“Our team will draw upon previous breakthroughs in the development of free radical targeted therapies but we will go further in creating a new approach to combat the problem without some of the current side effects of current pain management drugs.”

William Neumann received a bachelor of science in Chemistry from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1983 and a doctorate in 1987 from UM-St. Louis, where he worked on synthetic methodologies directed at preparing antitumor cyclopentanoid natural products. Since then, he has conducted research in both the diagnostic imaging and therapeutic pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining the SIUE School of Pharmacy he spent the majority of his industrial career at Monsanto corporate research and later Pharmacia, leading the new synthetic methods group. He also is currently adjunct professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Saint Louis University. Professor Neumann’s research interests are structure based drug discovery and catalytic antioxidants. At SIUE, he teaches Biochemistry and Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics: GI/Rheumatology/Pulmonary — Medicinal Chemistry.

Daniela Salvemini received her BSc in pharmacology in 1987 from King’s College London and her doctorate in pharmacology in 1990 at the William Harvey Research Institute, University College in London. After four years of post-doctoral fellowship, Salvemini joined the private sector where she spent more than a decade working on drug discovery and development of novel anti-inflammatories and analgesics. She came to Saint Louis University in 2005. Salvemini’s research achievements are reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications, reviews and lectures in the field of pain and inflammation and several international awards including the prestigious Novartis Award in pharmacology.

As the only downstate Illinois pharmacy doctorate program, the SIUE School of Pharmacy addresses the growing need for well-trained pharmacists in a career field that is experiencing rapid and dramatic growth. The SIUE School of Pharmacy offers a quality pharmacy education that will prepare you for a successful career in health care. Earn a doctor of pharmacy degree from a fully accredited pharmacy school that serves as a model for new pharmacy education programs.

SIUE is a nationally recognized public university offering a broad choice of degrees and programs ranging from career-oriented fields of study to the essential, more traditional, liberal arts. SIUE offers the advantages of a small, liberal arts college with the low tuition rates of a state university. Our emphasis on undergraduate education, complemented by faculty research, creates practical applications for student learning. Located in the second most populated area of the state, this Illinois university draws students from all 102 Illinois counties, 42 states and 50 nations.

One of 12 Illinois colleges and universities, SIUE is located on 2,600 acres of rolling hills and woodlands in Edwardsville, just 25 miles from St. Louis, a major metropolitan area. Proximity to the St. Louis area enhances SIUE’s energy and vitality. The campus is easily accessed from several major interstates, while the city of Edwardsville offers ample opportunity for jobs, entertainment, shopping and fun.

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MANCHESTER COLLEGE TO LAUNCH SCHOOL FOR PHARMACISTS IN FORT WAYNE

(Nov. 3, 2009) Elgin, IL — Manchester College will begin the accreditation process for a School of Pharmacy in Fort Wayne, Ind., with unanimous appro val given by its Board of Trustees. Manchester College is a Church of the B rethren-related school in North Manchester, Ind.

The college plans to enroll its first students in the four-year Doctor of P harmacy program in the fall of 2012. This is the 121-year-old baccalaureate college’s first venture into a doctoral program and into a satellite campu s. It will be the only Doctor of Pharmacy program in northern Indiana.

“Graduate education for pharmacists is a natural fit with Manchester Colleg e,” said president Jo Young Switzer. Manchester has a strong reputation in the sciences, particularly for preparing students for medical and graduate school. The college also emphasizes service learning.

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Fort Wayne is a natural fit for the new venture. In addition to numerous me dical facilities and opportunities for pharmacy practicum experiences, Fort Wayne offers many amenities attractive to the school’s 250 students, 40 fa culty and staff members, and their families.

“The decision by Manchester College to start a PharmD program in Fort Wayne is a wonderful investment of financial and intellectual capital in our cit y,” said mayor Tom Henry. “As the health care sector continues to grow in F ort Wayne and northeast Indiana, Manchester College’s expansion of professi onal programs is going to be key in creating the highly skilled, highly edu cated workforce employers demand.”

The average starting salary for pharmacists exceeds $100,000 and demand in the highly competitive profession is expected to grow more than 20 percent in the coming decade, said Switzer. The college’s research indicates many p harmacy graduates–who come from throughout the nation–remain in the commu nities where they study. Said Switzer, “During our exploration, many told u s that this project aligns well with other initiatives undertaken in northe ast Indiana to strengthen the economy here.”

Admission to Manchester’s new school will require two years of pre-pharmacy coursework. The college will add that program to its undergraduate curricu lum in North Manchester and its students will compete with pre-pharmacy stu dents from other colleges and universities for seats in the School of Pharm acy.

The college has not finalized its plans for a Fort Wayne site for the new s chool, which will require at least 35,000 square feet for classrooms, offic es, and laboratories. The pharmacy school will be a part of Manchester Coll ege and governed by the college’s Board of Trustees.

The search for a founding dean and building of a leadership team will begin immediately. That team will begin preparing the school’s application for a ccreditation.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continu ing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith t raditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches. It celebrated it s 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts some 125,000 members across the Unit ed States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.

(This release was provided by Jeri S. Kornegay, Director of Media and Publi c Relations, Manchester College.)

For more information contact:

Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Director of News Services
Church of the Brethren
1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120
800-323-8039 ext. 260

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