Pharmacy Students to Receive White Coats, Marking First Year of Professional Study

Two hundred third-year pharmacy students will participate in the 16^th annual School of Pharmacy White Coat Ceremony this weekend.

The ceremony, which marks students’ entrance into their first year of professional study as pharmacists, will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26, in the A.J. Palumbo Center. In addition to being presented with the white coats they will wear during their laboratory and experiential education, the students will each receive a School of Pharmacy pin and recite a pledge of professionalism during the ceremony.

Laura Mark, vice president of pharmacy at the Allegheny Health Network and a 1996 graduate of the School of Pharmacy, will deliver the keynote address.