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.
Russell Heaton (’00) remembers seeing his future wife, Kristi (’00), in 1995, while they were both students in a chemistry class at Eastern Washington University. He immediately thought she was beautiful, so he approached her and asked a question about the lab. Russ says she was not impressed by him, at all, and Kristi doesn’t even remember this encounter. But a year later, when they were both at WSU, they met again and started to hang around with mutual friends.
Leon, class of 1991, and Merrie Kay, class of 1993, met while students in pharmacy school and in 2017 they celebrated their 24 years of marriage. They established this scholarship […]
The Carolyn Backstrom Scholarship Fund was set up in 2001 by Carolyn Backstrom, a 1934 pharmacy graduate who worked in pharmacy until retiring in 1977.
The Arby and Cathaline Baker Scholarship in Pharmacy was established by their son, Danial Baker ’78, who credits them with giving him a strong work ethic and drive. Dr. Baker […]
The David E. Bell Scholarship in Pharmacy was started in 2007 by David E. Bell of Lacey, Washington, a 1976 pharmacy graduate who has spent most of his career in […]