Despite the limitations presented during the pandemic, DKICP students are finding ways to continue carrying out part of the college vision to engage and give back to the island community and beyond.

Yan Yee Ho, a P4 student at DKICP, is one of 85 pharmacy students around the country who was chosen for the 2021 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Walmart Scholars program. She will receive a $600 scholarship to attend the Pharmacy Education 2021 event with her faculty mentor

This year five DKICP faculty were successful in the Promotion and Tenure process. “We value the contributions of these faculty members and recognize their dedication in helping to fulfill our mission of education, research and service,” says Dean Carolyn Ma.

State pharmacy associations have recently recognized two DKICP alumni with prestigious awards. Dr. Katie Bass, Class of 2014, was selected to receive the Bowl of Hygeia award from the California Pharmacists Association at their state conference in May. Fellow 2014 graduate Dr.

Several members of the DKICP faculty and staff were honored for their years of service, along with a special achievement, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo end-of-year award ceremony.

Forty of 80 students in the DKICP Class of 2021 and one graduate student receiving his Ph.D. were able to be in Hilo for the degree granting and hooding ceremonies, held Saturday, May 8, 2021.

For the second year, the DKICP spring awards ceremony was conducted online, with awards and scholarships presented to 67 students and faculty. Also announced was the 2021 Preceptor of the Year, Dr. James Montague, a 2014 DKICP alumni who has precepts Ambulatory Care APPE rotations at the

This year’s University of Hawaiʻi Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Poster Festival was held on Monday, May 3, with four student pharmacists from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy presenting the results of their individual research projects.

An annual spring gathering of the Hawaiʻi Pharmacists Association spotlighted personal projects of pharmacy residents around the state. Two alumni from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Class of 2020 made presentations to the online gathering Friday evening, May 7.

Five students pursuing a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at DKICP presented updates on their on-going research in the annual spring Graduate Student Seminar Series held online May 7.