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 Drug Delivery and Development Colloquium, professional development panels 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 fall picnics to welcome new students and several fun trivia nights! 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.
2020 Events
2019 Events
September 26: Seminar by Eric King, Director of Federal Relations at UK
explained federal budget and funding process; how scientists can steer policy discussions and decisions
September 18: AAPS Fellow Seminar, Dr. Jim Wang
UK Student Chapter won AAPS Student Chapter of the Year Award!
August 21: Welcome Picnic and Scavenger Hunt
August 12: Welcome Lunch for New Students (picture above)
July 23: Qualifying Exam Panel
April 20: Expanding your Horizons
April: AAPS News Magazine Feature (written by 2019 Chair: Freddy Acre)
March 22: Slice of Science, Ryan Wheeler
2018 Events
November 17: Volleyball at Marrika’s!
October 10: Industry Internship Panel
August 20: Eli Lilly Trip (picture above)
August 6: Student Chapter selected for 2018 AAPS Student Chapter Award
2017 Events
November 22: Annual AAPS Meeting
Honorable Mention for Student Chapter of the Year!
November 11: “The Chemistry of Fruit” Workshop at the 13th Annual GEMS Event
November 10: Alltech Headquarters Visit in Nicholasville, KY
August 24: Potluck Picnic to welcome new students!
August 17: Orientation meeting with new students!
August 2: Tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN
July 27: Lexington Legends Baseball Game
May 23: Industry Survival Guide
May 13: American Heart Association Heart Walk
April 10: Securing the Job - Good Interview Practices Seminar
February 26: E-Day hosted by UK’s College of Engineering
2016 Events
2015 Events
August 2015 Lexington Legends Baseball Game Fall Welcome Picnic
July 2015
Patheon Trip
On July 23, the UK AAPS Student Chapter was hosted by Patheon in Cincinnati, OH for a site visit of Patheon's Pharmaceutical Development and Production facilities. This was a great opportunity to learn about the manufacturing side of the pharmaceutical industry.
May 2015
American Heart Association Heart Walk
AAPS End of Year Picnic
January 2015
Endnote Workshop for graduate students and post-docs.
2014 Events
August 2014
Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Metabolism (PPDM) Education Initiative Seminar Series- Dr. Joseph Polli (GSK)
Orientation lunch for incoming graduate students
Annual fall welcome picnic for new graduate students
July 2014
Prepare welcome packages for incoming graduate students
June 2014
Qualifying exam panel discussion
Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research Meeting
April 2014
Grant writing workshop for graduate students and post-docs
February 2014
UK Engineering Day (Science Fair)
Officer dinner- welcome new officers, thank old officers
January-February 2014
UK Pharmaceutical Sciences Alumni visit and seminar
2013 Events
December 2013
AAPS visiting speaker seminar
Winter Bowling party
October 2013
Chapter leadership elections
September 2013
Annual Fall Welcome Picnic
August 2013
Eli Lilly trip
July 2013
Spring Picnic & Faculty VS Grad Students Volleyball Game
June 2013
Alternate Careers for PhD's (Alumna Seminar)
May 2013
American Heart Association Heart Walk (pics)
Qualifying Examination Discussion Panel
March 2013
2013 UK AAPS Student Chapter T-shirt Design Competition
February 2013
University of Kentucky Enginnering Day (pics)
UK Alumni Seminar and Panel Discussion (pics)
January 2013
AAPS Winter Bowling Party (pics)
2012 Events
December 2012
AAPS Officer Elections
August 2012
AAPS New Graduate Students Welcome Picnic
March 2012
Qualifying Exams Discussion Panel
2011 Events
Febuary 2011
Outreach: UK Engineering Day
Young Scientist Seminar
March 2011
Young Alumni Panel Discussion: Dr. Phil Empey and Dr. Jigna Patel.
April 2011
Industry trip to Eli Lilly and company
Yound Scientist Seminar
Relay for Life
May 2011
Spring Picnic