October 6, 2021
AUBURN, Alabama – Thirty students were inducted into the Zeta Chapter of the Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society on Tuesday, September 28. The initiation ceremony was held on both the Auburn and Mobile campuses.
Dr. Erin McCreary, clinical assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of stewardship innovation with UPMC and Infectious Disease Connect, served as the keynote speaker. A member of Rho Chi, she graduated from HSOP with her Pharm.D. in 2015.
The initiation was administered by Dr. Paul Jungnickel, the chapter faculty advisor and associate dean for academic programs at HSOP, and current chapter president Victoria Donaldson.
Of the 30 initiated, 29 are Pharm.D. students with one graduate student. Those initiated were:
Founded in 1922, Rho Chi is an international honor society for pharmaceutical sciences that seeks to advance pharmacy through intellectual leadership. To be invited to join, students must rank in the top 20 percent of their class, have a minimum GPA of 3.0, have not been disciplined for violations of academic integrity or professional standards, and must be elected by a vote of the current chapter members. Auburn’s Zeta Chapter was established in 1925 as the sixth Rho Chi chapter in the country.
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Auburn University’s Harrison School of Pharmacy is ranked among the top 25 percent of all pharmacy schools in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report. Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the School offers doctoral degrees in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) and pharmaceutical sciences (Ph.D.) while also offering a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences. The School's commitment to world-class scholarship and interdisciplinary research speaks to Auburn's overarching Carnegie R1 designation that places Auburn among the top 100 doctoral research universities in the nation. For more information about the School, please call 334.844.8348 or visit http://pharmacy.auburn.edu.