Thank you for your interest in the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Implementation Scholar Award for individuals who participated in the AACP workshop Implement – Implementation Science for Transforming Pharmacy Practice and Education. The purpose of this award is to support workshop participants in the further planning of and preparation for an implementation science research project. Goals for the award could include furthering your growth as an implementation researcher, advancing preparation of a funding proposal, or helping establish the necessary partnerships for a project. All participants in the February 18 workshop are welcome to apply for an Implementation Scholar Award, even if they didn’t submit a project idea for discussion at the workshop.

Selection for the award is based on a competitive application process. The application provides information about your implementation science research project idea and outlines your plan for using the award for professional development and/or other activities that will support planning and preparation for your project. We encourage individuals with varying levels of implementation science research experience to apply. The project information and relevant background provided should allow evaluation of the project’s significance and contribution to your continued development as an implementation researcher. The detail and sophistication of the project information should reflect your experience and the project’s maturity. The award plan should be appropriate for your level of experience in implementation science research and likely to advance project planning and preparation.

Applications are due Monday, May 15.

AFPE anticipates making two (2) $2500 awards. Award notifications are expected to be made by early July 2023, with award start dates no later than October 1, 2023. 

Eligibility: The award is open to individuals who are faculty or staff at a pharmacy school and participated in the AACP workshop Implement – Implementation Science for Transforming Pharmacy Practice and Education on February 18, 2023. An individual must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to receive funding from AFPE. 

For questions, please contact Dorothy Farrell (dfarrell@aacp.org), Chief Science Officer at AACP. 

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Information previously collected in the Pharmacy School Admission Requirements (PSAR) tables is now available in the PharmCAS Compare Pharm.D. Programs feature.

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Admission Prerequisites

Schools may require more than one course per subject area. AACP captures course prerequisite data at the beginning of every admissions cycle. Please refer to the PharmCAS Compare Programs and School Directory pages for the most current information.

Tuition and Fees

AACP asks schools to report their tuition and mandatory fees for Pharm.D. and graduate programs during the upcoming year. View the Tuition and Fees tables for the latest tuition data. Check out the AACP Institutional Research tableau public profile for other information regarding colleges and schools of pharmacy.

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The AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award is designed to recognize excellence of our academic pharmacy faculty engaged in and/or supporting scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. According to Richlin (2001), Scholarly Teaching is a process that involves observing a teaching-learning problem or opportunity, consulting literature, selecting and applying an educational intervention, conducting systematic observation, documenting observations, analyzing results and obtaining peer evaluation.

Now accepting submissions for 2026! 
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Submission Deadline December 5, 2025 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time

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2025 Award Recipients

• Michelle Z. Farland, Pharm.D.
• Daniel R. Kennedy, Ph.D.

2024 Award Recipients

• Jeanne Frenzel, Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCSCP
• Jacqueline E. McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Past Award Recipients

2023

• Neal J. Benedict, Pharm.D.
• Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.

2021

• Marie Chisholm-Burns, Pharm.D, MPH, FCCP, FASHP
• Amy L. Seybert, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCCP, CHSE

2020

Katherine Kelley, Ph.D.

2019

Therese Poirier, Pharm.D.

2018

• Kristin K. Janke, Ph.D.
• Frank Romanelli, Pharm.D.

2017

• Jeff J. Cain, Ed.D.
• Adam M. Persky, Ph.D.

2016

• Naser Z. Alsharif, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
• David A. Holdford, Ph.D.
• Melissa S. Medina, Ed.D.
• Reza Mehvar, Pharm.D., Ph.D.

U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) has been working with an AACP task force for the past two years, to improve their ranking surveys of colleges and schools of pharmacy.  That task force has made progress in expanding their ranking process to include more objective data, but they are also planning to include reputation as a ranking criterion (which had been the only criteria in the past).  The magazine plans to conduct the reputation survey again this December and has asked AACP to provide an updated list of individuals appointed by each CEO dean to complete the reputation survey.

AACP is requesting that every CEO dean provide names and email addresses of four (4) individuals at their institution who will receive and complete the reputation survey.  CEO deans who wish to fill the survey out themselves should include their own name and email address along with three others.  Those who do not wish to fill the survey out themselves can provide four names.  AACP will provide this information directly to USNWR, and they will use the list when they field the survey.

Please submit your appointments using the link below by Friday, October 31, 2025.  AACP staff will follow-up with any college or school of pharmacy that does not provide this information by the requested deadline.

More information about the new ranking process, and the upcoming request for more objective data, will be forthcoming as the process is finalized.