College of Pharmacy News

Texas Pharmacy faculty and students are not afraid to blaze trails, follow their curiosity and experiment—they are the exemplars of burnt orange excellence. On Wednesday, March 29, The University of Texas at Austin’s Pharmacy Council honored and celebrated top educators and student pharmacists from across the college at its 2023 Celebration of Excellence.

Get to know some of Texas Pharmacy's P1 students.

A university is only as great as its faculty and the College of Pharmacy went all-in on faculty excellence. On Wednesday, April 6, The University of Texas at Austin’s Pharmacy Council honored and celebrated top educators from across the college at its 2022 Teaching Excellence Awards.

Student pharmacist Cara Rutledge (Pharm.D. Class of 2022) wrote an article for the Pharmacy Times about her honors program thesis which aimed to address the various complexities of student motivation, engagement and attendance in relation to mastery of course material.

UT student pharmacists Kailee Marikar, Sadaf Helforoosh, Hannah McCullough, Agaustin Wong and Cara Rutledge talked to the Pharmacy Times’ Skylar Kenney about their experiences balancing their studies in the midst of the pandemic and how COVID-19 showed a pharmacist's vital role in public health.

The college was awarded the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s 2020 Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award. This video outlining the community service efforts of the college was included in the virtual ceremony on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 during AACP's annual meeting.

Pharmacy Council announced the winners of 2021’s Teaching Excellence Awards for the College of Pharmacy’s hardworking faculty during a virtual ceremony.