On April 1st, 2019, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Rockford Campus was awarded a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) grant from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Dr. Allison Schriever, the Principal Investigator, and Co-Investigators Dr. Joseph Ross, Dr. Christopher Schriever, Dr. Annette Hays, Dr. Kevin Rynn and Megan Magnuson will use the award funds to conduct a study investigating the “Reactions, attitudes, and perceptions of multidisciplinary teams during IPE outreach”.

Carol Retzky, along with her late husband Herbert, owned pharmacies in Chicago most of their working lives. They were leaders in their community and within the profession of pharmacy. Carol recently lost Herb at the age of 93. In the last decade, they’ve become philanthropists in the Oak Park area as well as to UIC, Herb’s alma mater (Class of 1946). Both Carol and Herb came from families with pharmacy backgrounds. Herb’s father passed away while he was a senior in high school forcing him to go to pharmacy school so the family could make ends meet. Carol’s father and brother were both pharmacy owners as well.

The Class of 2019 will graduate on the May 9 at 10 a.m. in a ceremony at UIC's Credit One Arena. The UIC College of Pharmacy is proud to announce that the graduation speaker will be alumna Jenny Colombo, PharmD ’89, RES ’91, FEL ’92, Vice President Global Patients and Scientific Affairs for Takeda Pharmaceuticals International.