school news
what’s up? White Coat Ceremony Elisabeth Plunkett, Pharm.D. candidate 2012, receives her white coat from Professor Brad Williams at the annual White Coat Ceremony held on August 21. The ceremony welcomed the 187 new students composing the Class of 2012. The entering class has an average undergraduate GPA of 3.5.
TAP Program
PEP Dean Vanderveen; Walter Cathey, special assistant to the Dean for the School’s Diversity Initiative; Brian Taylor, head of schools for the Inner City Education (ICE) Foundation Public Schools in Los Angeles; and John Davis, founder and current director of Med-COR, at the dinner launch of the Diversity Initiative. Cathey has successfully started the Pharmacy Explorers Program (PEP), incorporating it into the Med-COR curriculum which mentors high-school students interested in health careers.
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WINTER 2009 | USC PHARMACY MAGAZINE
Professor Mel Baron (center) with USC seniors Michael Childress and Jasmine Knight, both in the Trojan Admission Prepharmacy (TAP) program. Students enrolled in the TAP program are guaranteed admission into the Pharm.D. program provided they meet prerequisiste and GPA requirements. Childress and Knight are two out of the likely 40 TAP students slated to begin the Pharm.D. program in the fall of 2009.