Alumni & Friends

By Becky Kramer, Originally published in the Washington State Magazine Being a pharmacist on Vashon Island puts Tyler Young (’13 PharmD) on the front lines of health care. Although it’s part of […]

Pharmacotherapy Associate Professor Julie Akers (’00) has been appointed Executive Associate Dean for the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, effective on July 1. In this new role, Julie will […]

Retired hospital pharmacist David Bell (’76) and retired Eli Lilly executive Ron Schleif (’76) met as classmates at WSU in the mid-1970s. They became best friends while majoring in pharmacy […]

Class of 2013 alumna Theary Chhim shares her career path which combined her love of pharmacy and design into an entrepreneurial opportunity. The UX/UI designer for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer […]

Every February, it has become a tradition to feature a pharmacy couple who met during their time at the WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. This year we share […]

Every year, the WSU pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences alumni community make their annual pilgrimage from across the nation to the college. Their collective goal? To pay tribute to their own […]

The WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is pleased to announce that 71% of participating registrants matched with a residency program this year. Nearly 70% of those matched will […]

The first recorded Black student who graduated from Washington State University (or Washington State College as it was known at the time) was a Black woman named Jessie Senora Sims. […]

From their first day of pharmacy school 70 years ago, through two sons, and three grandchildren, Earl (’55) and Barbara (’56) McIntosh have faced it all together. Below Barbara shares […]

For Hung Truong (’00) and Megan McIntyre, a Montana pharmacy graduate from 2004, meeting at a Bartell Drug store was all it took for a future to unfold. They met when Megan was on a Pharmacy Administration rotation with Bartell Drugs in the summer of 2003 and Hung worked at Bartell’s Coal Creek location. If Hung was telling the story he would say that she was his intern. According to Megan, she was technically licensed as an intern but met Hung when she was training him on her rotation project to establish new point of care services throughout Bartell Drugs (of course, Megan tells the correct version). And the rest is history.