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Fall 2024

How do pharmacists help people manage medications?

Pharmacists offer crucial help to people with complex medication regimens.

As people get older, the number of medications they take often keeps growing. That can make for a tricky exercise in making sure they use the right prescribed medicine at the right time.

But they’re not alone in managing multiple medications. Pharmacists, and specifically consulting geriatric pharmacists, offer help in a number of ways.

At Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, pharmacotherapy professor Brian Gates (’99 PharmD) and associate professor Jeffrey Clark (’09 PharmD), both board-certified geriatric pharmacists, teach pharmacy students as well as practice as consulting pharmacists.

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Fall 2024

Why are they absent?

Q&A with Washington State University researchers on assessing chronic absenteeism and truancy in schools

The number of students who regularly miss school has caused a truancy crisis across the country. The pandemic definitely inflamed the problem, but it hasn’t eased much in recent years. Chronic absenteeism—defined differently across the states but generally means regularly missing a lot of classes—significantly affects Washington state too.

To get some insight into chronic absenteeism, Washington State Magazine talked to four experts from Washington State University:

Brian French: Berry Family Distinguished and Regents Professor, College of Education, WSU Pullman
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Fall 2024

Resolve: An excerpt from A Life Impossible

 

Michel and I went swimming in the shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico to get in some light exercise without putting too much strain on my body. I waded along the shoreline in chest-high water so I could still touch the sand with my feet. Then, very gradually, a subtle undertow pulled me into deeper water. In astonishment and with raw, primal fear, all I could do was look at Michel, and do my best to cry “Help.”

I had always been a strong swimmer, but now I was seeing and comprehending in stark detail just how much my body had withered. My … » More …

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Summer 2024

License to Coug

It’s one of the ways to say “Go Cougs!” without saying “Go Cougs!”

It’s also a means of supporting students through scholarships, recognizing fellow Washington State University alumni and fans on the road, and showing Cougar pride.

More than 23,000 crimson Cougar license plates travel Washington roadways—more than double any other university in the state. (Take that, Huskies.)

One of the best things about that high number—besides outdoing the Dawgs—is $28 from each WSU license plate supports student scholarships. Last year, that meant more than $640,000.

To celebrate, Washington State Magazine asked holders of Coug license plates to share the stories behind and photos of … » More …