MESSAGE FROM DEVELOPMENT

Ken Boyden

Returning Home

The return to in-person classes for the fall of 2021 was unlike any other semester here at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, as is true for most of our experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, thanks to the leadership of Dean Eddington, the School’s Board of Visitors, the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s administrative team led by President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, and our faculty and staff, the School of Pharmacy continues to excel in service to our students, alumni, researchers, clinicians, partners, and friends.

The fall semester also marked the official opening of the spectacular, state-of-the-art Pharmapreneurs’ Farm innovation center in the Ellen H. Yankellow (PharmD ’96, BSP ’73) Grand Atrium of Pharmacy Hall. With this impressive facility, generations of students, faculty, alumni, and collaborators will have a home base for facilitating new solutions, discoveries, and other efforts to improve human health. Since its opening in 2010, Pharmacy Hall has provided modern classrooms, labs, and meeting spaces, and now, with the addition of The Farm, our tradition of expertise, influence, and impact continues.

Additionally, the School of Pharmacy’s history museum, just down the (Clayton, BSP ’58) Warrington Family Gateway from the Yankellow Grand Atrium, has been renamed the Joseph U. Dorsch Sr. (BSP ’39) Pharmacy Museum. Also, the recent naming of the Ferdinand “Ferd” F. Wirth Jr. (BSP ’52) Sterile Prep Lab and the Dorothy Levi (BSP ’70) Seminar Room, each resulting from generous alumni donations, add to the School’s commitment to provide the finest in facilities, in faculty, and in forwardthinking education.

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy also is always acutely cognizant of the financial burdens experienced by many of our students from tuition and other expenses. As such, we also celebrate recent student support through the Wagner Family of Endowed Scholarships supporting nine students each year, and the remarkable Felix Khin-Maung-Gyi (BSP ’83) Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Pharmapreneurship, the only one-year full tuition scholarship offered by the School.

We remain extraordinarily grateful to our donors, alumni, and friends for their continued support. It has been said that “home is the tranquility we return to when the world turns into confusion.” The COVID-19 pandemic has provided the confusion in our lives. We are all comforted by the tranquility and support that this academic year’s return to our School of Pharmacy and its community provides us.

Thank you for your support, association, and contribution to the School’s resilient community.

Ken Boyden, JD, EdD Associate Dean Office of Development and Alumni Affairs 410-706-4415 kboyden@rx.umaryland.edu