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College is a founding member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
1902
Department of Pharmacy becomes College of Pharmacy
1904
W.J. Teeters becomes Dean
1905
College of Pharmacy assumes distribution of all drugs in University Hospitals
1917
College of Pharmacy produces “bootleg” aspirin
1926
Pharmacy moves to the Pharmacy-Botany Building addition of the Chemistry Building
1928
Pharmacy Building Drug Room (Pharmaceutical Service) created
1937
R.A. Kuever is appointed Dean of the college
1938
Iowa establishes the first graduate program in hospital pharmacy in the country
1952
Louis C. Zopf becomes Dean
1962
Tester begins study that establishes unit dose system
1963
College of Pharmacy moves into current home on west side of campus
1965
College of Pharmacy develops the national-standard Unit Dose System
1965
Iowa Drug Information Service (Division of Drug Information Service) founded
1972
Dale E. Wurster is appointed Dean of the college
1974
1974 Division of Pharmaceutical Service, led by Director John Lach, begins producing pharmaceutical dosage forms for clinical testing in compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Good Manufacturing Processes
1983
Biocatalysis Research Group (named Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing in 1990) established with Pharmacy Professor Jack Rosazza as head
1984
Robert A. Wiley becomes Dean
1992
Gilbert Banker is appointed Dean of the college
1992
Professor Robert Linhardt carries out first chemical and structural characterization of human heparin leading to landmark findings on structure and function of heparin and other complex polysaccharides
1993
Center for Advanced Drug Development established
1994
Established Iowa Center for Pharmaceutical Care in Collaboration with the Iowa Pharmacy Association and Drake University College of Pharmacy
1996
South Wing building dedicated
1997
First entire class graduated with Doctor of Pharmacy degrees
1999
Jordan L. Cohen becomes Dean
1999
Residency education was expanded to community sites and achieves the first nationwide accreditation for a multi-site community pharmacy residency
2007
Donald E. Letendre is appointed Dean
2008
Division of Pharmaceutical Service and Center for Advanced Drug Development merge to become the University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals
2009
College is restructured, moving from three academic divisions to two departments; Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
2011
Barry Carter becomes the recipient of the college’s first named professorship, the Patrick E. Keefe Professor in Pharmacy
2012
William Doucette is named to the Deborah K. Veale Professorship in Healthcare
2012
Inaugural Osterhaus Medal for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Robert Osterhaus, Max Eggleston, and Thomas Temple
2013
Aliasger Salem is named the Lyle and Sharon Bighley Endowed Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences
2015
The college’s first fully-endowed named chair is bestowed upon Robert Kerns, named the John L. and Carol E. Lach Chair in Drug Delivery Technology
2015
James B. Ray appointed to James A. Otterbeck OnePoint Patient Care Professorship in Hospice and Palliative Care
2015
The college implements the Learning and Living Curriculum
2016
The college breaks ground on a new facility
2016
The college hosts the inaugural Zada Cooper Leadership Symposium, honoring the first known female faculty member in a College of Pharmacy—Zada Cooper—also a pioneer
2017
The college offers its first certificate in palliative care, within the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum
2017
The college offers its first-ever PGY2 residency in pain management and palliative care pharmacy
2018
The college offers its first-ever undergraduate certificates: in Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, and Drug Disposition and Metabolism—the first certificate-level opportunities in the College of Pharmacy to be available to UI undergraduate students
2018
A Sign the Beam celebration takes place, representing the last beam hoisted into the new building
2018
The college offers a dual PharmD and MS degree in Health Informatics