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		<title>School of Pharmacy Dean Presents 2011 State of the School Address</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Natalie D. Eddington, PhD, FAAPS, FCP, delivered her annual State of the School of Pharmacy Address on Nov. 9 to an auditorium packed with faculty, staff, students, preceptors, and University of Maryland officials.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dean <strong>Natalie D. Eddington, PhD, FAAPS, FCP</strong>, delivered her annual State of the School of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> Address on Nov. 9 to an auditorium packed with faculty, staff, students, preceptors, and <a title="University of Maryland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park">University of Maryland</a> officials.</p>
<p>&#8220;The foundation of what we do at the School is based on our mission to lead pharmacy <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a>, scientific discovery, patient care, and community engagement in the state of Maryland and beyond,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The annual State of the <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/School-Of-Pharmacy/"title="School Of Pharmacy" >School of Pharmacy</a> Address provides an introspective opportunity to examine our endeavors, opportunities, and challenges and to focus our journey as we go forward.&#8221;<span id="more-1530"></span></p>
<p>In the area of education, the School has 633 Doctor of Pharmacy students. Applications to the School&#8217;s PharmD program in 2011 totaled 1,220, which is comparable to the number of applications the School has had over the past four years. The School admits about 160 students to that program each year. Of those admitted to the Class of 2015, nearly 90 percent entered with at least one college degree.</p>
<p>&#8220;This year was a milestone for us as we graduated our first group of 33 students from our program at the Universities at Shady Grove in May,&#8221; Eddington said. &#8220;Our total number of graduating students was 144.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of those 144 graduating students, 44 percent chose <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/jobs/"title="jobs" >jobs</a> in community pharmacies, and 29 percent chose pharmacy residencies. &#8220;We noted this year a significant decrease in the number of new positions for our pharmacy graduates in health-system and hospital pharmacies,&#8221; Eddington said. &#8220;We had a <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/career/"title="career" >career</a> fair at the School recently, and the health system representatives indicated that the number of available positions will be more favorable in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The School&#8217;s graduate programs in its Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC) and its Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (PHSR) enrolled a combined total of 65 students. PHSR enrolled seven new students for the fall of 2011, the largest group in recent years. Graduates of these programs go on to <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/careers/"title="careers" >careers</a> in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and with the government.</p>
<p>The residency and fellowship training program continues to flourish in the School&#8217;s Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science (PPS), Eddington reported. Residents and fellows can now choose among 14 specializations. &#8220;We have a great partnership with the University of Maryland Medical Center where they co-fund six of our residency positions,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This allows us to expand and offer more positions.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the area of practice, faculty in PPS provided clinical care in 33 ambulatory and 14 inpatient settings, delivered more than 65,000 hours of patient care, and received $6 million in sponsored projects. Other activities in the department focused on the continued development of the Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions, which hosted a National Leadership Roundtable in June focused on the pharmacistýs role in <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/health-care/"title="health care" >health care</a> reform, and the implementation of a patient-centered medical home pilot project in conjunction with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.</p>
<p>&#8220;The patient-centered medical home pilot project is a wonderful collaboration with our partners in the School of Medicine that brings together physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals to coordinate medical care to patients,&#8221; Eddington said. &#8220;In the pilot project, <strong>Katy Pincus, PharmD</strong>, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice and science, provides comprehensive medication management services to patients and also works on the approval process for billing of pharmacist-provided services, which has historically been a challenge for pharmacists. And our Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, under the direction of assistant professor <strong>Gail Rattinger, PharmD, PhD</strong>, will be leading the evaluation of all 53 pilot sites in the state that are serving more than 300,000 patients.&#8221;</p>
<p>In research, the School was the recipient of several large grants and contracts in FY11. In the PHSR, several faculty members are working on projects with the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration (ADAA) in the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Linda Simoni-Wastila, PhD, a professor in the department, is providing ADAA with epidemiological data for prevention planning, monitoring, and evaluation of programs to reduce the consumption and adverse consequences associated with alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. <strong>Francoise Pradel, PhD, </strong>an associate professor, is evaluating community-based initiatives aimed at minimizing underage drinking, binge drinking, and alcohol-related crashes in the state&#8217;s youth.</p>
<p>In the PSC, <strong>Bruce Yu, PhD</strong>, an associate professor with a joint appointment at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), received a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Bioimaging and Biomedical Engineering to develop new dyes to enhance resolution and accuracy of probes for noninvasive imaging of disease diagnosis. Professor <strong>Steve Hoag, PhD</strong>, is the School&#8217;s lead investigator on a $35 million award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Technology (NIPTE) to improve the drug manufacturing process and enhance safety. NIPTE is a consortium of 10 universities across the country and the School of Pharmacy is one of its founding members, Eddington said.</p>
<p>The School, in collaboration with UMCP, has been designated as an FDA Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation. This award will span a three year period with a focus on developing scientific exchanges with the FDA in order to improve preclinical assessments of safety and efficacy, ensure readiness to evaluate innovative and emerging technologies, and harness diverse data through information sciences to improve health outcomes.</p>
<p>PHSR faculty earned $4.7 million in research grants and contracts, and PSC earned $5.6 million. The School&#8217;s total for research awards received in Fiscal Year 2011 was $16.6 million, with more than $5 million of that funding coming from the National Institutes of Health, a 40 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.</p>
<p>With outreach and community service a priority for the School of Pharmacy, its Maryland Poison Center continued to fill a strong need in the state. The center, based in PPS, received more than 65,000 calls in FY11, with 35,000 of those involving human exposures. &#8220;The Maryland Poison Center serves a vital role in our state and provides a great deal of public health service,&#8221; Eddington said.</p>
<p>A highlight of the year was the Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation from the U.S. Green Building Council for the new Pharmacy Hall. &#8220;Our new building is one of the few education and research-intensive Gold buildings located in an urban area,&#8221; Eddington said. &#8220;It is proving to be an oasis at the University because of its light-filled atrium, large gathering spaces, and calming atmosphere. Our design, construction, and management teams were able to produce a space that reduces its footprint through its numerous environmentally friendly features.&#8221;</p>
<p>The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is the fourth oldest school of pharmacy in the United States and is consistently ranked in the top 10 by <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report</em>.</p>
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In addition to cutting-edge research in drug delivery mechanisms, cost impact studies, basic drug discovery and development, and disease management, the School engages in a wide variety of professional practice activities, partnering with over 200 community pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes, and more than agencies to provide services to citizens and practitioners around the state and across the nation.</p>
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		<title>Norton to invest in UK pharmacy program for three more years</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norton Healthcare Inc.    has agreed to invest $600,000 to extend its pharmacy education initiative with the University of Kentucky for three more years.
The Clinical Education Center at Norton Hospital’s downtown campus began in 2006. It has resulted in 86 UK pharmacy students completing their education in Louisville, with more than 50 of them beginning [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2011/11/26/norton-to-invest-in-uk-pharmacy-program-for-three-more-years">Norton to invest in UK pharmacy program for three more years</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Norton Healthcare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Healthcare">Norton Healthcare Inc</a>.    has agreed to invest $600,000 to extend its <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >pharmacy</a> <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a> initiative with the <a title="University of Kentucky" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kentucky"><strong>University of Kentucky</strong></a> for three more years.</p>
<p>The Clinical Education Center at Norton Hospital’s downtown campus began in 2006. It has resulted in 86 <strong>UK pharmacy</strong> students completing their education in Louisville, with more than 50 of them beginning their <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/career/"title="career" >career</a>s here.</p>
<p>That’s proof the initiative has succeeded, said Paul Allen, Norton’s associate vice president of pharmacy services.<span id="more-1517"></span></p>
<p>“Back when we started, we had a pretty significant pharmacist shortage,” he said. “We have seen a real benefit in both the supply and quality of &#8230;</p>
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		<title>Pharmacists Improve Care of Diabetics While Cutting Costs, Research Shows</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2010) — The role of pharmacists hasn&#8217;t received much attention in the debate on the cost of health care. But national and regional studies show that when pharmacists directly participate in patient care, they significantly reduce treatment costs and improve outcomes.
A study on diabetic patients by the University at Buffalo School of [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2010/01/08/pharmacists-improve-care-of-diabetics-while-cutting-costs-research-shows">Pharmacists Improve Care of Diabetics While Cutting Costs, Research Shows</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="first"><span>ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2010)</span> — The role of pharmacists hasn&#8217;t received much attention in the debate on the cost of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/health-care/"title="health care" >health care</a>. But national and regional studies show that when pharmacists directly participate in patient care, they significantly reduce treatment costs and improve outcomes.</p>
<p>A study on diabetic patients by the University at Buffalo School of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> and Pharmaceutical Sciences identified cost savings with improvements in a key indicator of glucose control in diabetes patients, the hemoglobin A1C measurement. The A1C provides a three-month average of the amount of excess glucose in the blood. Higher A1Cs indicate that a patient is at higher risk for developing long-term complications associated with diabetes, such as kidney disease or vision problems.</p>
<p><strong><span><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/School-Of-Pharmacy/"title="School Of Pharmacy" >School of Pharmacy</a></span></strong>,<span> <strong>Buffalo School of Pharmacy</strong></span>,<span> <strong>University</strong>,</span><span> <strong>Pharmaceutical Sciences</strong>,</span><span> <strong>Pharmaceutical</strong>,</span><span> <strong>pharmacists</strong></span>,<span> <strong>Pharmacy</strong>,</span><span> <strong>School</strong>,</span><span> <strong>health care</strong>,</span><span> <strong>health</strong>,</span><span> <strong>care</strong></span>,<span> </span><span> <strong>Pharmacy <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >Schools</a> and  University</strong></span></p>
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<p>Published last spring in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, the UB study of 50 patients with Type 2 diabetes demonstrated that in just six months clinical pharmacists, in collaboration with primary care providers, were able to significantly reduce patients&#8217; A1C levels.</p>
<p>In the UB study, patients&#8217; A1C levels were reduced by an average of 1.1 percent, from an average of 8.5 percent to 7.4 percent, one year after being enrolled in the program, while also improving the overall metabolic profile.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our results show that enhancing the patient&#8217;s access to care through collaborative physician-pharmacist relationships can yield lower blood glucose levels, improve the overall metabolic profile and reduce costs to the payer,&#8221; says Erin Slazak, PharmD, UB clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice and board certified pharmacotherapy specialist.</p>
<p>These clinical improvements occurred while monthly costs per patient went down by approximately $212, around $2,500 per year, even though there were nominal increases in the cost of medications prescribed.</p>
<p>The key to success?</p>
<p>&#8220;Patients had unlimited access to pharmacists throughout the year,&#8221; says Slazak.</p>
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<p>Patients referred to the UB program had been identified by their primary care providers as having difficulty controlling their blood sugar. Slazak notes that it was not uncommon to see patients with glucose levels as high as 400 mg/dl (normal levels are below 100 mg/dl).</p>
<p>The UB pharmacists spent an initial one-hour appointment with each patient, where they worked up detailed health records covering dietary information and all medications and disease conditions, and then reviewed them with each patient.</p>
<p>After that, patients could call or make appointments with pharmacists at will.</p>
<p>&#8220;We did extensive <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a> with patients about how to manage their conditions,&#8221; says Slazak. &#8220;In many cases, we were instrumental in getting them to start insulin. There is a lot of resistance to that, and not just because it&#8217;s an injection.&#8221;</p>
<p>For patients in the initial stages of administering insulin, she says it was common to be contacted once every few days. The pharmacists then made suggestions to physicians about changes in medications, dosages or lifestyle that might be beneficial to their patients.</p>
<p>That kind of individualized attention is far from the norm for diabetic patients.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nationwide, the standard of care is that the primary care provider manages diabetes alone,&#8221; says Slazak. &#8220;Pharmacists typically do not have direct involvement.&#8221;</p>
<p>That is partly because some states, including New York, have not yet approved collaborative practice agreements between physicians and pharmacists. In the Buffalo study, for example, physicians were required to review pharmacists&#8217; recommendations and approve all interventions first. Completion of the review process and approval occurred in only half of the cases, potentially limiting the overall benefit to the patient.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know there&#8217;s a long-term clinical and economic benefit to pharmacists working directly with patients and we think that can continue to grow,&#8221; says Scott V. Monte, PharmD, UB clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice and director of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Research, CPL Associates, LLC, in Buffalo. &#8220;Pharmacists can help achieve better outcomes if given the chance.&#8221;</p>
<p>The study was conducted through MedSense™, part of the Pharmacotherapy Research Initiative, a collaborative effort between Lifetime Health Medical Group and UB, to study how pharmacists impact patient care. MedSense™ is one of many program sites that are part of the UB Pharmacotherapy Research Initiative in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, which was established to study how pharmacy medication management can improve the health of patients while cutting costs through patient-centered pharmacotherapy.</p>
<p>In addition to Slazak and Monte, other co-authors on the paper include Nicole Paolini Albanese, PharmD, UB clinical assistant professor; Martin Adelman, PhD, chief information officer at CPL Associates, LLC; Gauri Rao, a student in the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Joseph A. Paladino, PharmD, UB professor of pharmacy and director of outcomes research at CPL Associates, LLC.</p>
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The program is jointly funded by Lifetime Health Medical Group and the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.</p>
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		<title>New pharmacy school in Suwanee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUWANEE – The new Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy (PCOM) is scheduled to open in August 2010 in Suwanee with a focus of providing students with a four-year doctor of pharmacy degree that will prepare them for regional needs.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>SUWANEE – The new Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine School of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> (PCOM) is scheduled to open in August 2010 in Suwanee with a focus of providing students with a four-year doctor of pharmacy degree that will prepare them for regional needs.</p>
<p>At its January 2008 meeting, the PCOM Board of Trustees authorized a search for the founding dean and chief academic officer of the new <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/School-Of-Pharmacy/"title="School Of Pharmacy" >School of Pharmacy</a>. In October 2008, Mark P. Okamoto, PharmD, was named to that position. A national search has brought a distinguished group of pharmacy educators to Suwanee to form the core leadership of the new school.</span></p>
<div><span><strong><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-school/"title="pharmacy school" >pharmacy school</a></strong>,</span><span> <strong>pharmacy</strong></span>,<span> <strong>school</strong>,</span><span> <strong>pharmacy <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >schools</a></strong>,</span><span> <strong><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-schools-university/"title="pharmacy schools" >Pharmacy Schools</a> and  University</strong>,</span><span> <strong>Suwanee</strong></span></div>
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<p><span>The decision to move forward with the School of Pharmacy and the search for a dean was based on a feasibility study that highlighted the critical demand for pharmacists as being second only to the demand for nurses within Georgia. Pharmacy Manpower Project projections, coupled with a Georgia Board of Regents report, pointed to the need for more than 2,100 pharmacists in Georgia by 2012.</p>
<p>The curriculum will be composed of courses in Biomedical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Social / Behavioral / Administrative Sciences, and Clinical Sciences.<br />
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<p><span>Additional information about the PCOM School of Pharmacy program is available from the Dean&#8217;s office at 678-407-7330. Information about the application process is available on the web at www.pcom.edu.</span><a href=""></a></p>
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		<title>Pharmacy school bars covering of the face</title>
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The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has banned students, faculty, and staff from covering their faces on its three campuses in an effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said yesterday.

But the new policy has drawn flak from a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, which wants the school to exempt Muslim [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2010/01/08/pharmacy-school-bars-covering-of-the-face">Pharmacy school bars covering of the face</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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<p>The Massachusetts College of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> and Health Sciences has banned students, faculty, and staff from covering their faces on its three campuses in an effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said yesterday.</div>
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<p>But the new policy has drawn flak from a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, which wants the school to exempt Muslim women who veil their faces<strong> </strong>for religious reasons.</p>
<div><strong><span>Pharmacy,</span></strong><span> <strong>school</strong></span>,<span> <strong><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-school/"title="pharmacy school" >Pharmacy school</a></strong></span>,<span> <strong>Pharmacy <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >schools</a></strong></span>,<span> <strong>schools</strong></span>, <strong><span><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-schools-university/"title="pharmacy schools" >Pharmacy Schools</a> and  University</span></strong></div>
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<p>“It’s a very strange policy,’’ said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. “I don’t know where it came from. The only thing we can conclude is that it’s designed to specifically target Muslims.’’</p></div>
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<p>Sarah Wunsch, staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts,  called the policy  “puzzling and possibly illegal.’’</p></div>
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<p>Michael Ratty, a spokesman for the college, which has campuses in Boston, Worcester, and Manchester, N.H., said the rule was imposed after a “periodic assessment of public safety policies’’ at the private college.</p></div>
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<p>“It’s no surprise that college safety has become a huge issue of importance in the past couple of years. This is another measure that public safety [officials at the college] wanted to implement to keep the campus safer,’’ Ratty said of the policy, which went into effect Jan. 1.</p>
<div><strong><span>Pharmacy,</span></strong><span> <strong>school</strong></span>,<span> <strong>Pharmacy school</strong></span>,<span> <strong>Pharmacy schools</strong></span>,<span> <strong>schools</strong></span>, <strong><span>Pharmacy Schools and  University</span></strong></div>
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<p>The ban applies to anything that covers the entire face. In addition to veils, that could include ski masks and scarfs drawn over the face, he said.</p></div>
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<p>Ratty said college public safety officials want to be able to identify people who are in college buildings. He also said development of the policy had no connection to the arrest last year of a 2008 graduate of the school, Tarek Mehanna, on terrorism charges.</p></div>
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<p>“Unequivocally, it has nothing to do with that case,’’ he said.</p></div>
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<p>Ratty said that the college found two students who would be affected by the rule and that officials met with them and both agreed to comply with it. “We have faith that [the policy] is appropriate,’’ he said.</p></div>
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<p>But Hooper said he had not heard of such a policy adopted at any other American school. And he argued that because the policy includes a medical exemption, it should also include a religious exemption.</p></div>
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<p>“People should have the right to practice their faith as they see fit, not as others see fit,’’ he said.</p></div>
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<p>Founded in 1823, the college says it has prepared more men and women for professional <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/career/"title="career" >career</a>s in pharmacy than any other academic institution in the world. It has 4,300 students in pharmacy and a variety of other <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/health-care/"title="health care" >health care</a> programs.<img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/dingbat_story_end_icon.gif" border="0" alt="" width="6" height="8" /></div>
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		<title>School talks &amp; market turnovers among top Provincetown stories in 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROVINCETOWN &#8211; The top stories of 2009 in this town are easy to identify: the July 4th sewer failure, mass resignations at Outer Cape Health Services, the town’s first hate crime in seven years, the deaths of several well-known and beloved residents.
But there were dozens of other events both big and small that helped weave [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2010/01/06/school-talks-market-turnovers-among-top-provincetown-stories-in-2009">School talks &#038; market turnovers among top Provincetown stories in 2009</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span id="storyBodyDateline">PROVINCETOWN &#8211; </span>The top stories of 2009 in this town are easy to identify: the July 4th sewer failure, mass resignations at Outer Cape Health Services, the town’s first hate crime in seven years, the deaths of several well-known and beloved residents.</p>
<p>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.<span id="more-1455"></span></p>
<p>Here is a look at some of the stories that had a significant impact on life in Provincetown over the past year.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Reworking a school system</strong></span><br />
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 <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >schools</a> with the Nauset Regional School District. The three-person committee’s report is supposed to be presented at the 2009 ATM.<br />
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In tourism</strong></span><br />
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.<br />
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Hall restoration</strong></span><br />
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.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Park project</strong></span><br />
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.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>As the market turns</strong></span><br />
Although the takeover of the former Grand Union grocery store on Shank Painter Road by Stop &amp; 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 <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >pharmacy</a> 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.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Pharmacy no more</strong></span><br />
The reason there was a crush at the Stop &amp; 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 &amp; Shop in March.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Art barn</strong></span><br />
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.</p>
<p><em>Pru Sowers can be reached at <a href="http://psowers@provincetownbanner.com/">psowers@provincetownbanner.com</a></em><a href=""></a></p>
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		<title>UPDATE: Marshal gives description of Coupeville pharmacy armed robber</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police have issued a description of the man who robbed Linds Pharmacy and Drug at gunpoint at 10:20 a.m. Monday in Coupeville.
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, [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2010/01/06/update-marshal-gives-description-of-coupeville-pharmacy-armed-robber">UPDATE: Marshal gives description of Coupeville pharmacy armed robber</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Police have issued a description of the man who robbed Linds <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> and Drug at gunpoint at 10:20 a.m. Monday in Coupeville.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<div><strong><span>Pharmacy</span></strong>,<span> <strong>Drug</strong></span>,<span> <strong>pharmacy</strong> <strong>assistants</strong>,</span><span> <strong>technicians</strong>,</span><span> <strong>pharmacist</strong></span>,<span> <strong>college students</strong></span>,<span> r<strong>obbed Linds Pharmacy</strong></span></div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Coupeville deputies, Island County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies and State Patrol troopers&#8217; vehicles flashed their lights along Main Street, Highway 20 and Broadway Avenue in an effort to set up a perimeter around the pharmacy.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to plug up the holes you know you have,&#8221; said Lt. Evan Tingstad with the Island County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.</p>
<p>Coupeville <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >schools</a> were locked down for more than an hour while deputies checked the areas surrounding them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<div><strong><span>Pharmacy</span></strong>,<span> <strong>Drug</strong></span>,<span> <strong>pharmacy</strong> <strong>assistants</strong>,</span><span> <strong>technicians</strong>,</span><span> <strong>pharmacist</strong></span>,<span> <strong>college students</strong></span>,<span> r<strong>obbed Linds Pharmacy</strong></span></div>
<p>&#8220;The crew is a little shaken up,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The man cleared out the pharmacy&#8217;s supply of OxyContin, a highly addictive prescription pain medication.</p>
<p>&#8220;He took everything we had on the shelf in every strength,&#8221; Lind said.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The pharmacy remained open after the robbery and continued to filled prescription requests by customers who seemed unaware of the morning heist.</p>
<p>Law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate the incident and review the store&#8217;s video surveillance system.</p>
<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Marshal Penrod wrote in the press release.</p>
<p>A Skagit County Sheriff&#8217;s Office search dog and handler were initially called in to help with the search effort. The unit was called off because officials couldn&#8217;t find anything to give the animals a scent trail, according to Island County Sheriff Mark Brown.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Can UNCG and UNC-CH meet in middle on pharmacy schools? by Allen Johnson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked about UNCG&#8217;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.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not my decision,&#8221; Thorp said in a meeting with News &#38; Record editorial writers last March.
Thorp said he would be happy to help UNCG gather information toward [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2009/11/24/can-uncg-and-unc-ch-meet-in-middle-on-pharmacy-schools-by-allen-johnson">Can UNCG and UNC-CH meet in middle on pharmacy schools? by Allen Johnson</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When asked about UNCG&#8217;s hopes to establish a new <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >pharmacy</a> school by 2011, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp, a smart and impressive man, gingerly tip-toed through an answer.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not my decision,&#8221; Thorp said in a meeting with News &amp; Record editorial writers last March.</p>
<p>Thorp said he would be happy to help UNCG gather information toward its goal.</p>
<p>&#8220;The question whether UNCG is the right place for a second <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/School-Of-Pharmacy/"title="School Of Pharmacy" >school of pharmacy</a> and whether the state needs one &#8212; those are things that need to be decided by President Bowles and Chancellor Brady,&#8221; he said later, referring to UNCG leader Linda Brady and UNC system President Erskine Bowles.</p>
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<p>What that precisely meant was unclear. But it did not appear to be a ringing endorsement.</p>
<p>When pressed about opinions on his campus, Thorp was equally nimble, if uninformative. &#8220;Well, you know universities are places where there are lots of opinions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There is certainly some skepticism about it but there are some other people who think it makes sense.&#8221;</p>
<p>In any event, he said, it wasn&#8217;t their decision to make, either.</p>
<p>(He was a lot more forthcoming about Tar Heel basketball.)</p>
<p>But being opposed to a new <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-school/"title="pharmacy school" >pharmacy school</a> &#8220;isn&#8217;t part of the UNC culture,&#8221; Thorp said, reassuringly.</p>
<p>That was then.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Some UNC-CH officials counter that the shortage isn&#8217;t as great now as it was thought to be before because of the recession.</p>
<p>Why then, the need for another program in Asheville?</p>
<p>And recessions do eventually end. The pharmacy school is a much longer-term proposition.</p>
<p>UNC-CH&#8217;s timing also is, well, suspicious. UNCG&#8217;s plan has been on the table for months. The Chapel Hill plan was either a well-kept secret or a late development.</p>
<p>Brady said Thursday that she learned of the Chapel Hill proposal at the end of September. &#8220;My sense is it had not been in the works very long,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>There may be no calling dibs in these matters, but shouldn&#8217;t Chapel Hill at least have touched bases with UNCG as a professional courtesy?</p>
<p>&#8220;People have different approaches,&#8221; Brady said.</p>
<p>Even so, she added, &#8220;I personally don&#8217;t view the Chapel Hill concept as a competitor. It&#8217;s very different from what we&#8217;re proposing here.&#8221;</p>
<p>UNCG would offer the professional-level and graduate degrees, including doctorates, and include a significant research component.</p>
<p>She said UNCG&#8217;s provost, David Perrin, interim UNC-CH vice chancellor and provost Bruce Carney and the UNC system&#8217;s vice president for academic affairs, Alan Mabe, will meet within the next two weeks to discuss the two proposals.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s helpful for us to be competitors,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Sometimes that&#8217;s the case, but it would be good for the two institutions to sit down and talk about the two plans and the state&#8217;s needs.&#8221;</p>
<p>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&amp;T/UNCG Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our argument is not only an <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a>al argument,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an economic development argument.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>For her part, UNCG&#8217;s Brady was clearly expecting statesmanship to trump turf concerns.</p>
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&#8220;The first chancellor to call me following my appointment here was Holden Thorp,&#8221; she said.</p>
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		<title>Pharmacy, Without a job, it&#8217;s back to school</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thinking may be convoluted, but higher <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a> tends to benefit from an economic downturn.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The turnout Wednesday for the Graduate &amp; Professional School Fair held on the campus of Abilene Christian University bore out that thinking.<span id="more-1448"></span></p>
<p>A steady flow of prospects began circulating through the exhibit room shortly after the fair started. Walls wasn’t surprised.</p>
<p>“Enrollment has gone up because of the economy,” he said. “<a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >Schools</a> tend to do better when the economy is down.”</p>
<p>Wednesday’s fair was sponsored by the West Central Texas <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/career/"title="career" >Career</a> Consortium, which consists of eight local colleges and universities and Dyess Air Force Base.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“If more <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/jobs/"title="jobs" >jobs</a> were out there and more money was out there, I might just stop with my master’s,” Klein said.</p>
<p>But because of limited well-paying positions for clinical psychologists with only a master’s degree, Klein decided to check out doctoral programs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“There just weren’t that many out there,” he said.</p>
<p>On the flip side, the recruiting is picking up.</p>
<p>“It’s been kind of good for graduate schools,” he said.</p>
<p>Another man with an easy job Wednesday was Make Nall, who represented the Texas Tech University School of <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >Pharmacy</a> in Abilene.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-schools-university/"title="pharmacy schools" >pharmacy schools</a> gets more applicants than it can handle, Nall said.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/pharmacy-school/"title="pharmacy school" >pharmacy school</a>s because the entry level pay for a pharmacist can be as high as $140,000 a year, Nall said.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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“It’s been big,” Cortez said. “People have been having a hard time finding a job.”</p>
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		<title>UB Unveils Ambitious Capital Expansion Plan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) &#8211;   	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 [...]<p><a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/pharmacy-schools-university/2009/11/24/ub-unveils-ambitious-capital-expansion-plan">UB Unveils Ambitious Capital Expansion Plan</a> is a post from: <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com">Pharmacy in jobs, news, schools</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span><span>BUFFALO, NY</span></span> <span><span>(WBFO)</span></span> &#8211;   	<span><span>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.&#8221;It is what is sometimes referred to as b-hag, a big hairy audacious goal,&#8221; said Robert Shibely, director of UB&#8217;s Urban Design and lead on the master plan project.<span id="more-1446"></span></p>
<p>As evidence of that, Shibley had giant, impressive architectural renderings, scores of data, and even an inch and half thick bound hardcover book containing the finished product.</p>
<p>The plan took three years from inception to completion, a cadre of planners, input from thousands of people and $4.5 million dollars. And that was just to get it on paper. Now the real work begins.</p>
<p>But Shibley said for the first time, UB has a solid concept for future growth that does not leave campuses or buildings stranded.</p>
<p>One of the first priorities of the plan was to make sure each campus has its own academic mission. That will mean expansion and improvements on all three campuses and shifting some programs.</p>
<p>The north campus will retain the college of arts and sciences, engineering and management. The south campus will become home to the professional <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/schools/"title="schools" >schools</a>, including architecture, law, social work and <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/education/"title="education" >education</a>. And the downtown campus will complete UB&#8217;s biomedical corridor vision, with all health sciences located at the rapidly expanding campus.</p>
<p>That includes eventually relocating all health sciences from the south campus, including the dental and <a href="http://pharmacy-in-jobs.pharmacy-bg.com/"title="pharmacy" >pharmacy</a> schools. UB President John B. Simpson said they are prepared for opposition.</p>
<p>The medical and nursing schools would be the first to move downtown, followed quickly by public health and, many years later, dentistry and pharmacy. Once complete, the downtown campus is expected to house about 13,000 students, faculty and staff.</p>
<p>Expansion and population growth are also planned at the other two campuses. Shibley said the south campus will not be abandoned. He said the professional schools will make good neighbors, and the campus will get a new look with refurbished historic buildings and a more parklike setting.</p>
<p>The north campus would be enhanced to accommodate the largely undergraduate population. The spine could be widened and extended, connecting Ellicott around the lake.</p>
<p>But central to the plan also is tying all three campuses together.</p>
<p>Shibley said the best way to create a &#8220;spine&#8221; to do that is by extending metro rail. He said UB is actively working with the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to push for extension of rail service that would link all three campuses before the NFTA extends service to the airport.</p>
<p>The tally for the twenty plus year build out at all three campuses is between five and six billion dollars. $2.9 billion of that would have to come from the state. Simpson said that is not as much of a reach as it seems.</p>
<p>&#8220;The plan is about capital expansion, which is one time funding, which the state of New York, generally, even in difficult times like last year, has been willing to come up with for investments in the future,&#8221; said Simpson. &#8220;And this kind of plan really is an investment in the university, and therefore, an investment in the region.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, Simpson said how fast the plan evolves will depend largely on passage of the UB 20-20 bill. The law, which would give UB greater financial flexibility, is currently stalled in the legislature.</p>
<p>Still, some work is already progressing, even without the bill. Shibley said cranes are in the air and the plan is moving forward. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of if it will get done, but when,&#8221; said Shibley.</p>
<p>UB officials said the master plan is closely linked with other plans for the region and demonstrates UB&#8217;s long range commitment to western new york.</p>
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