THE UST Faculty of Pharmacy kicked off the year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary this week with an international conference on health education and research.
Pharmacy Dean Prof. Aleth Therese Dacanay opened the 1st International Congress on Collaborative Education and Research in Healthcare on March 9. It will be held via Zoom until March 12.
The conference, sponsored by pharmaceutical retail giant Mercury Drug, will feature plenary and parallel lectures and oral presentations by professors and doctors from local and international universities and hospitals.
The faculty also opened Pharmacy week, which will be observed with webinars, lectures and competitions until March 12.
A Mass was offered by Pharmacy Regent Fr. Pompeyo de Mesa, O.P. on Monday, March 8.
It was followed by the launching of the faculty’s sesquicentennial website and a preview of a coffee table book. The official sesquicentennial hymn was also presented.
In a message, Dacanay said the sesquicentennial celebration was a time to “remember, revitalize and reinvent the glorious past” of the Faculty of Pharmacy and inspire future generations of pharmacists, medical technologists, biochemists and botanists.
The Faculty of Pharmacy, along with the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, was founded on May 29, 1871. It was the first to offer a pharmacy program in the Philippines.
A sesquicentennial year recollection will be held on Saturday, March 27.
A virtual research expo will be held on Wednesday, April 28.
On May 29, the faculty will unveil the marker for the sesquicentennial. It will also give awards to outstanding alumni and exceptional students, organizations, faculty members and other stakeholders.
The 2020 Grand Alumni Homecoming, in cooperation with the UST Faculty of Pharmacy Alumni Association and Scholarship Foundation, Inc., will be held on Oct. 9.
The faculty will also hold a “grand medical mission” to its partner communities on Oct. 10.
The closing ceremonies will be held from Dec. 4 to 7.
“Retracing My Roots: A Walk To Remember” and the Botanical Garden Plant Festival will be held on Saturday, Dec. 4.
A sports and family day will be held on Monday, Dec. 6. This will include a fun-run called “150 miles for 150th.”
A fair and open house will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 7. It will be followed by “Vin d’honneur,” a night of thanksgiving, to close the year-long projects.
The theme of the sesquicentennial celebrations is “Dreaming Beyond Our Seeing.”
