State board helps out

J. Lyle Bootman, dean, and others from the College of Pharmacy accepted $600,000 from the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy during a board meeting in Phoenix Sept. 11. The money will enable the college to embark on a number of critical initiatives that will yield benefits not only to the profession of pharmacy but to the citizens of Arizona, Bootman says.

The college will use the funds:

• to open and staff the new facility in downtown Phoenix at TGen
• to purchase state-of-the-art telecommunications equipment to develop a distance learning capability that will link the Tucson and Phoenix campuses
• to attract matching funds from foundations and other sources that will leverage the state’s investment in the UA College of Pharmacy.

“We are pleased that the Arizona state legislature agreed with the board that this was a good use of these funds,” says Hal Wand, executive director of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.

The college will receive the funds in quarterly installments.

Photo shows Tom Vanhassel, president of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy, presenting Dean Bootman (right) with a symbolic check.