 About the School
Founded in 1946, the School of Pharmacy offers the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) as the sole entry-level professional degree. Professors at the School of Pharmacy are experienced in teaching, dedicated to their field, and skilled in clinical service and research. Classes of 52 students assure each student maximum individual attention. Faculty conduct world-class basic and applied research in the pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy practice, health-care systems, drug-delivery systems, and treatment of disease.
John H. Vandel, B.S. Pharmacy
Dean, School of Pharmacy
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MISSION STATEMENT:
The mission of the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy is to be recognized as a leader in pharmacy education by:
Providing and sustaining knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors and values necessary to develop outstanding pharmacists capable of delivering patient-centered care in a rural-frontier environment.
Promoting professional development through a commitment to life-long learning.
Achieving recognition for innovation or leadership in teaching, service, research and practice.
Promoting excellence in the practice of pharmacy by being agents of positive change.
Providing service to health care providers, health care systems and patients to promote excellence in health care.
Statement of Values:
The School of Pharmacy values professionalism in all of its various guises.
Accreditation:
The School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) , 20 North Clark Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, IL, 60602-5109. The school received a full six-year accreditation from ACPE in July 2007. Full accreditation status through 2012-2013 was re-affirmed by ACPE in 2009. The school will send updates to ACPE during the 2009-2010 academic year. ACPE Accreditation Standards and Guidelines.
College of Health Sciences Center:
The newly upgraded $20 million Health Sciences Center, which opened its doors to students in fall 2006, unites most College of Health Sciences departments and offices under one roof. The College of Heath Sciences includes the School of Pharmacy; Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing; the divisions of kinesiology and health, communication disorders, disabilities studies, and social work; and medical education and public health programs. It also includes family practice residency programs in Cheyenne and Casper, the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, and the Center for Rural Health Research and Education. (Read More.)
History of the School of Pharmacy:
The increasing importance of health sciences to the people of Wyoming culminated in the 1967 construction of the School of Pharmacy established within the College of Health Sciences. Today facilities of the school augment the other science missions of the university. The south facade of the building was originally planned to open onto a courtyard following removal of the old Agricultural Hall. Plans changed, however, and the hall became the Biochemistry Building, providing a closed connection between the chemistry laboratory needs of agriculture, the arts and sciences, and health sciences.
R.W. Schropfer and Henry Therkildsen, University of Wyoming architectural engineering graduates, designed the Pharmacy Building. The contemporary styling is a modern, somewhat experimental, adaptation of Beaux arts tradition that blends well with the Western Research Institute Building to the North as well as with the much older Biochemistry Building to the south. The use of native stone materials and glass panels is in keeping with other buildings on the west end of the campus.
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