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2004
WELCOME
FROM VICE PRESIDENT DAN DWYER
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A ROUNDUP OF UM SCIENCE NEWS
PHARMACY
SCHOOL
ON THE GROW
SCHOOL
OF THE MIND
BRAIN STUDIES MAY COMBAT CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES
PATHWAYS
OF LIFE
NEW LAB TACKLES VASCULAR DISEASE
GENETIC
HEALING
BIOLOGIST SEEKS DNA-LEVEL CURES FOR HEARING LOSS, CANCER PAIN
HIGH
TECH INSTRUMENT CENTER
SUPER COMPUTING AIDS UM RESEARCH
RETURN
TO BLACK MOUNTAIN
LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER FIRE, NATURE THRIVES
EXTREME
LIVING
HOT POOL CREATURES MAY OFFER GLIMPSE OF LIFE BEYOND EARTH
TUNNELS
TO SAFETY
ANIMALS USE CULVERTS TO CROSS HIGHWAYS
VIENNA
EXPERIENCE
STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAM LEAVES A LASTING IMPRESSION
PROTEINS
MAY UNLOCK MAD COW DISEASE
UM RESEARCHER MICHELE MCGUIRL WORKS TO PROTECT FOOD SUPPLIES
WHEN
SPEECH WASN'T FREE
PROFESSORS DELVE INTO MONTANA'S TROUBLED PAST
FAMILY
ALCHEMY
RESEARCHERS BALANCE SCIENCE, MARRIAGE AND KIDS
CULTURE
CLASH
DIFFERENCES IMPACT ACADEMIC SUCCESS
INVISIBLE
SPACE RAIN
RESEARCHER STUDIES MYSTERIOUS COSMIC RAYS
BRAIN
PAIN
RESEARCHER OFFERS TIPS FOR MIGRAINE SUFFERERS
CAMAS
MAGAZINE
VOICES RISING IN THE WEST
SCHOOL ON THE GROW
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UM's School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences is experiencing meteoric growth. The school was the top unit for University research in 2003, bringing in $11 million. That total ranked the school seventh in the nation among 90 pharmacy institutions for earning research dollars.
That’s a big change from 16 years ago when Dean Dave Forbes first took the reins at the school. Back then pharmacy had essentially zero research funding, housed 12 faculty members and was in danger of losing its accreditation. The school now has 32 tenure-line faculty and 13 research faculty and has become an international leader in biomedical research. In addition, student enrollment has jumped from 90 to 275.
The school also has a new home, the Skaggs Building, which it moved into in January 1999. The school already has outgrown Skaggs, and a 59,000-square-foot building addition is planned. Pharmacy also has added six new degrees programs since 1996 – with plans for more – as well as several new scientific centers and institutes. Surging research even prompted administrators to add “biomedical” to the name of the school’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The pharmacy school is an exciting place these days, with new discoveries hiding behind every lab door. Turn the page to sample some of the cutting-edge science being explored by the school and its partners.