{"id":60328,"date":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/college-of-pharmacy-fact-sheet\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"college-of-pharmacy-fact-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/college-of-pharmacy-fact-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Pharmacy Fact Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tThe College of Pharmacy\u2019s $75 million, five-story, 144,000 square-foot building is the largest academic building on the Kingston campus. <\/p>\n


\nBuilding Overview:<\/p>\n


\no\t160-seat, 3D auditorium

\no\tResearch labs: 18 labs w\/ 3 research stations each = 54 research stations

\no\tFour dry labs for Pharmacokinetic, Economic and Clinical Research

\no\tThree teaching wet labs

\no\tProfessional practice lab w\/sterile preparation, patient assessment areas

\no\tOne 50-seat and two 30-seat general assignment classrooms

\no\t3,000 sqft analytical instrumentation facility

\no\t1,000 sqft dual Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

\no\tStudent study and informal gathering areas

\no\tNine conference and meeting rooms <\/p>\n


\n\tFeatures:<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tInterdisciplinary Health Delivery Simulation Center with three private patient rooms, a three-bed ward, nurses station, and debriefing conference room.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tAdvanced Cisco telepresence video conference technology in all classrooms and three conference areas.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\t$6 million, 7,000 sqft current Good Manufacturing Practice Facility (cGMP) that will open later in the fall, where best practices in cGMP technique and documentation can be taught to company employees and students, and where the college can partner with biomedical companies on the development and manufacture of human use pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tA CVS Caremark model pharmacy to be outfitted like a CVS pharmacy and used for teaching and to film educational videos.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\t3D visualization auditorium, a 12-seat, 3D animation production lab, and a 3D printer room so students can animate, visualize, then print 3D models to help them understand complex biomedical structures and interactions.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tCompounding Lab where students learn the art of pharmaceutical compounding to prepare personalized medications for patients.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tWhen completed, the extensive outdoor medicinal garden will contain plants that help prevent or cure everything from cold sores to cancer. The garden functions as an educational display of medicinal plants herbs and spices and also as a conservatory source of standard specimens.

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\n\u27a2\tThe building accommodates as many as 820 students, a 50 percent increase from 2006 when the $65 million bond was approved. The college\u2019s most recent home, the 66,000-square-foot Fogarty Hall, was opened in 1964 and was designed for 235 students.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tDesigned by Payette architects of Boston, the new pharmacy building is expected to earn a “Gold” rating in the U.S Green Building Council’s LEED\u00ae rating system. With advanced green technologies to minimize energy and water consumption, it is a sustainability model for science buildings nationwide.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 the College of Pharmacy<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tThe College of Pharmacy has brought in more than $83 million in federal and private research dollars since 2000. <\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tThe College\u2019s Health Care Utilization Management Center has helped save the state Department of Corrections in excess of $13 million since 2002.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tRecently a college professor won a highly competitive Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation grant that will deliver $14 million dollars to improve care for RI cognitively and physically impaired and Alzheimer patients. <\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\t54 full-time faculty members, 8 professional pharmacy staff, 19 support staff, 19 post docs, 85 graduate students, and 820 undergraduate students.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tOver the last five years, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Pharmacy job placement rate has exceeded 95 percent each year.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tPharmacists have gone from earning a four-year bachelor of science degree to a five-year bachelor\u2019s degree and now a six-year doctor of pharmacy. The doctor of pharmacy is said to have 180 career options associated with it. <\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tA new four-year bachelor of science in the pharmaceutical sciences degree was created to be combined with an MS, MBA or PhD to steer students toward careers in drug research, discovery, development and manufacturing. Graduates in this program are also prepared to enter sales, marketing and management positions at large pharmaceutical companies or government regulatory agencies.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tNumerous pharmacy graduates go on to other professional degree combinations in law, medicine, dentistry and business.<\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tIn clinical practice, pharmacists are providing care in a wide array of community, hospital, clinic, physician office and senior care practice settings working directly with other health care professionals on interdisciplinary teams. <\/p>\n


\n\u27a2\tPharmaceutical scientists are exploring the growing need for personalized medicine and the role that genetics plays in drug therapy effectiveness and toxicity. <\/p>\n


\nFacts 溏心vlog免费B站 the Project Construction:<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 3,000 cubic yards of concrete

\n\u2022 1,100 tons of structural steel

\n\u2022 10,000 pieces of brick

\n\u2022 26,000 sqft of exterior glazing

\n\u2022 325 doors

\n\u2022 1.3 miles of fire sprinkler lines

\n\u2022 109 tons of duckwork

\n\u2022 7 miles of plumbing piping

\n\u2022 10 miles of mechanical piping<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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