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Annisija Hunter, subject librarian at Hilton M. Briggs Library at Ģ������Ƶ, has received the prestigious 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Innovation Grant for her project, “Humanizing Health Sciences Education with Graphic Medicine.” She accepted the award during the annual American Library Association Annual Conference in June.

This spring’s American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles may have been Aubrey Kooima’s last as a student pharmacist, but it was also a culminating moment for this notable leader.

When Susan Immanuel talks about her research, one theme is clear. “I like solving puzzles,” she said. At Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Immanuel is applying that mindset to pancreatic cancer, exploring new ways to deliver effective cancer drugs more precisely and effectively to tumors.

In rural communities across South Dakota, access to healthcare often comes down to access to people. According to Marissa Trosen, director of the respiratory care program in Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, this is especially true for those needing access to the specialized care provided by respiratory therapists.

Ģ������Ƶ’s medical laboratory science program, housed in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, has earned a continuing 10-year accreditation from the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

Darci Fink, a researcher in Ģ������Ƶ's Biosystems Networks and Transformative Ģ������Ƶ-Insight into Inflammation Center of Biomedical Ģ������Ƶ Excellence (BioSNTR-II COBRE) received a flagship grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the underlying causes of lymphedema, a disfiguring disease that affects 10 million people in the U.S.

Like so many, the COVID-19 pandemic changed Gavin Eischens’ life in profound ways. While still in high school, he became a certified nursing assistant at the height of the pandemic, an experience he jokingly said means he’s “been a CNA for my whole life.” More seriously, those early experiences inspired Eischens, now finishing his second year in Ģ������Ƶ’s respiratory care program, to pursue a career in respiratory therapy.

Irene Arango Gómez, community care coordinator for the Community Practice Innovation Center in Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, says her work is shaped by a need to know and understand public health systems and advocate responsibly within them.

Austin Allen, a student in the Ģ������Ƶ College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, has been selected as a Pharm4Me Student Ambassador by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

The American Academy of Health Behavior recently honored Christopher Robbins, assistant professor of allied and population health in Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, and his colleagues with the 2025 Paper of the Year award.