Our UK AAPS Chapter’s mission is to enhance research and employment opportunities by fostering interactions between students, faculty, alumni and visitors. More specifically we aim at increasing student participation in AAPS activities, providing updated information on advances in the pharmaceutical sciences and career opportunities, promoting outreach activities and creating opportunities for professional advancement.
Here are some of the professional activities our chapter has hosted in the past including a successful Young Scientist Development Seminar Series, lunches for guest speakers and pharmaceutical company visits. These activities vary from purely scientific and academic to a variety of carrier-related subjects including job hunting, post-Ph.D. career options, start-up companies and others.
Our chapter has also organized past social meetings including annual softball/volleyball spring picnics and a welcome picnic for new graduate students. They serve as great occasions for professors and students to interact in a non-laboratory setting and act as refreshing and rejuvenating events in graduate student life.
2010 Events
Febuary 2010
Outreach: UK Engineering Day.
March 2010
Young Scientist Seminar: Faulty Panel Discussion, Academic Start-up Companies.
Spring Picnic
July 15th 2010
Lexington Legends game (summer social activity)
August 19th 2010
AAPS orientation for new students and welcome packages
August 24th 2010
Fall Picnic
September 24th 2010
Chapter elections
Young Scientist Seminar: Student Panel on Industry Internships
October 15th 2010
UK College of Pharmacy/ AAPS T-shirt design and sale
October 21st and 22nd 2010
Visiting Scientist – Dr. Jerome Skelly
December 2010
Bowling Night (pics)
2009 Events
January 2009
Pizza lunch with UK Undergraduates;
Young Scientist Seminar Series (Topic: Ethics in Scientific Writing)
February 2009
Participation at Engineers Day Open House (pics)
March 2009
Pizza lunch and presentation with Dr. Lynne Taylor, a visiting speaker. The topic of the presentation was "The changing face of the pharmaceutical industry and what it means to future pharmaceutical scientists".
June 2009
Hosted for the first time a visiting scientist from Pfizer (Groton, Connecticut) as part of the AAPS Visiting Scientist program. Topic for seminar was: "The role of nanotechnology in pharmaceutical development". Dr. Cao (visiting scientist) and the graduate students also had a very interactive and insightful discussion on careers in the pharmaceutical industry and differences as well as similarities between careers in industry and academia.
August 2009
Fall Welcome Picnic for new students
November 2009
AAPS Annual Meeting (pics)
December 2009
Industry visit in Eli Lilly laboratories (pics)
AAPS Bowling Night (pics)
2008 Events
October 2008
Open House for Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS Undergraduates invited)
November 2008
Student and Faculty Holiday Potluck
2007 Events
January 2007
UK Basketball Get Together
February 2007
Young Scientist Seminar
April 2007
Post Graduate Conference
Reception
Scientific Talks (Keynote Speaker: Bill Charman) and banquet
Keeneland
May 2007
Spring Picnic
2006 Events
August 2006
Fall Picnic to welcome new students
October 2006
AAPS officer elections
Careers in the FDA: Dr. Jerry Skelly
November 2006
Thanksgiving Potluck
How to write a Paper: Dr. Brad Anderson
December 2006
Christmas Potluck
2005 Events
Spring 2005
Young Scientist Development Seminar Series
April 2005
Post-Graduate Conference
May 2005
Annual Spring Picnic and Students vs. Faculty Softball Game
August 2005
New Student Welcome Fall Picnic
2004 Events
January 2004
Seminar: "Preparing for Your Post-Ph.D. Career in Academia or Industry" by Guest Speaker Dr. Russell Mumper
February 2004
Seminar: "So You Want to Form a Company?" by Guest Speaker Dr. Peter Crooks, Yaupon Therapeutics, Inc.
March 2004
Seminar: "How to Write and Effective Resume" by Guest Speakers Dr. Sharon Childs & Dr. Dian Snow
December 2004
Young Scientist Development Seminar Series: How to Write and Review a Paper
2003 Events
Spring 2003
Picnic/Faculty vs. Students Softball Game
Fall 2003
Welcome Back Picnic
October 2003
AAPS Annual Meeting
Spring 2003
Seminar: "How to Start Your Own Company"
Spring Picnic (pics)