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Students used continuous glucose monitoring sensors and simulated insulin injections with syringes filled with saline to practice adjusting their own blood sugar, logging meals, and fulfilling responsibilities people with diabetes manage day-to-day.
Her term of service will be February 2026 through August 2027.
When thinking about the Minnesota State Fair, food is usually one of the first things that comes to mind. Food and crowds. That makes it an ideal location for Dr. Paula Rabaey to conduct her “Mealtime Madness” study on pediatric feeding and eating challenges.
Dr. Carolyn Fairbanks, associate dean for research and professor in pharmaceutics, leads a research team that has designed, synthesized, and characterized new molecules that could reduce chronic pain without the side effects often associated with opioids.
Community emerging practice has been a part of the OT program for over a decade, bringing students to sites across the state where they build critical relationships and offer insights that improve barriers in the environments around them.
Despite the 7.7 million nonmetropolitan residents who reported having a mental illness and more than 16% of U.S. adults who reported taking prescription medication to help with mental health in 2023, access to medical and mental health services remains significantly limited. This is the backdrop to the recent pause in the College of Pharmacy’s longstanding partnership with the Human Development Center, a certified community behavioral health clinic serving northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Every eight weeks, pharmacists from rural practice settings across Minnesota gather to tackle barriers to integrating pharmacists and MTM services into rural health systems. The workgroup offers a virtual space for practitioners to find resources, give each other guidance, and bring forward questions
Unique to the college, these traineeships offer graduate students an extended period of immersion at an organization to more fully participate in research projects and experience a realistic post-graduate work environment.
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences aren’t unique in and of themselves, but the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy’s approach to them is.
The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy received the 2025 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.