Alaska University-ISU pharmacy students and staff are safe
Idaho State University says a cohort of its Coillege of Pharmacy students at the University of Alaska in Anchorage (UAA) has been accounted for and all are safe.
None of the university’s faculty or staff were harmed in any way. The university said each person’s family has been contacted. ISU is working to ensure that all caught in the Alaska earthquake Friday have power, water, heat, and food.
Assistant Dean for Alaska programs Dr. Tom Wadsworth said the UAA campus was evacuated and classes were canceled. “We are certainly shaken by this event, but thankful to have all of our students and staff safe and sound,” Wadsworth said.
Idaho State’s College of Pharmacy Campus facilities in Anchorage have been found to be repairable. School officials said most of the damage in Anchorage appeared to be to infrastructure, like roads and power lines.
ISU faculty in Pocatello was busy as well.
Dr. Chris Owens, interim dean for the College of Pharmacy, says, “I think the way the group pulled together up there, and here in Pocatello with Brooke [Buffat] and her office making phone calls to family members as well, and how everyone was focused on taking care of our students and notifying families was awesome.”
UAA began working with ISU’s College of Pharmacy in 2011 in an effort to prepare pharmacists in Alaska. Students began classwork in the new UAA-ISU College of pharmacy in 2016. The inaugural class will graduate five pharmacists.
