Vision / Mission / Values
Vision - To achieve national recognition as a top 10-ranked program in pharmaceutical sciences research, a leader in teaching and learning, and a valued contributor of service to the profession and community.
Mission - We are a multidisciplinary department providing expertise in the areas of drug discovery, development, and evaluation. We are dedicated to pursuing scholarship that creates new knowledge, to learning that disseminates and preserves knowledge, and to engagement that exchanges knowledge. Our Mission is to:
- Provide an integrated, multidisciplinary education in the pharmaceutical sciences to students enrolled in our professional and graduate programs.
- Maintain innovative research programs in the pharmaceutical sciences which contribute to our understanding of the design, synthesis, delivery, disposition, and action of biologically active compounds.
- Serve as a resource of expertise in these areas to the University and the community at large.
Values and Commitments - The Department will champion, and be led by values and commitments that define its character, principles and standards of its being. They include to:
- Foster appreciation of the critical and unique contributions made by basic pharmaceutical sciences to the professional and graduate pharmacy programs, and to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
- Enhance the scientific and professional communities within and beyond the university.
- Strive for excellence, through assessment and continuous quality improvement activities.
- Maintain teaching and learning at the cutting edge of knowledge in our specializations.
- Promote and serve as models of life-long learning.
- Champion collaboration and interdisciplinary learning and research.
- Contribute to an atmosphere that supports outstanding communication.
- Pledge to act with honesty and integrity, and adhere to the highest standards of professional behavior.
- Make members and alumni proud of the quality of the department and offerings.