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University of Wyoming

About the School of Pharmacy

The School of Pharmacy offers a four-year professional program of study leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. This is preceded by a pre-professional program of not less than two years, making the study of pharmacy a six-year commitment. UW's pre-professional pharmacy program will give you a back-ground in general education, mathematics, communication, and the sciences necessary to enter into studies for our professional degree. Our professional program is designed to educate you as a pharmacy practitioner capable of providing primary pharmaceutical care in a rural/frontier environment.

Our discipline is firmly based in pharmaceutical sciences, the pathology and physiology of disease, drug therapy, and the understanding of patients, as well as in the skills of critical thinking, decision-making, problem solving, and communication. Your final year will consist of practicums with pharmacy practice faculty and licensed preceptors at their practice sites. When you graduate from the program, you'll be eligible to take the state board of pharmacy examinations.

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy is to be recognized as a leader in pharmacy education by:

· Providing and sustaining knowledge and skills necessary to develop outstanding pharmacists capable of delivering pharmaceutical care in a rural-frontier environment.

· Cultivating professionalism and a commitment to life-long learning

· Achieving recognition for innovation and leadership in research and practice.

· Promoting excellence in the practice of pharmacy by being agents of positive change.

· Providing service to health care providers, health care systems and patients to promote excellence in health care.

 

History

 

October 2005

Grand Opening for UW Health Sciences Center

PHARMACY BUILDING

The increasing importance of health sciences to the people of Wyoming culminated in the 1967 construction of the School of Pharmacy established within the College of Health Sciences. Today facilities of the school augment the other science missions of the university. The south facade of the building was originally planned to open onto a courtyard following removal of the old Agricultural Hall. Plans changed, however, and the hall became the Biochemistry Building, providing a closed connection between the chemistry laboratory needs of agriculture, the arts and sciences, and health sciences.

R.W. Schropfer and Henry Therkildsen, University of Wyoming architectural engineering graduates, designed the Pharmacy Building. The contemporary styling is a modern, somewhat experimental, adaptation of Beaux arts tradition that blends well with the Western Research Institute Building to the North as well as with the much older Biochemistry Building to the south. The use of native stone materials and glass panels is in keeping with other buildings on the west end of the campus.

Centennial Celebration, September 27, 1986