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The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo has been recognized as one of the top 300 universities in America.  

May 15, 2020 

Dear Graduates of the Class of 2020, 

My heartfelt congratulations on achieving your dream of fulfilling your aspiration of becoming a pharmacist!  Alongside your family and friends, our faculty and staff share in your joy and excitement. 

The end-of-year award ceremony for the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy went online recently. There weren’t any handshakes but there were plenty of cheers for the Preceptors of the Year and teaching award winners.

Faculty and staff of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy gathered virtually with students recently in an online version of the annual end-of-schoolyear awards ceremony.

With their audience on screen instead of in a large conference room, four alumni of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy recently presented their post-graduate residency research projects to an online meeting of the Hawaiʻi Pharmacists Association (HPhA).

Henry Quach, a third-year student pharmacist at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, recently won the national American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Patient Counseling competition. Quach, who competed against students from most of the pharmacy schools across the country, will receive a plaque and $1,000 prize.

Improving the health of everyone within a community, throughout an island, or within a state, takes some creative thinking, as well as coordination of resources and efforts across a variety of health professions.

Charlene, Tammy & Caroline worked hard to set up an assembly line to mass produce reusable face masks.   The masks were cut, sewed and an elastic string was added. They will be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and fill the much needed supply.  

Ten students preparing to graduate in May from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo recently were matched to post-graduate residency programs at hospitals and health care systems around the county.

In the Scripts column, read about the ambulatory care clinical pharmacy services through the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy faculty.