The page cannot be found

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

The page cannot be found

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

Students in Drake's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will gain leadership and entrepreneurial skills through a two-prong program funded through a new three-year pledge and partnership with Wal-Mart.

"We are very excited to be a partner with Drake and are thrilled that the program is showing the promise that it has," said Mike Peerson, director of talent services and corporate relations at Wal-Mart.

The student leadership development program provides students with the opportunity to hear scholars and professionals in pharmacy and health sciences as well as other fields speak about leadership. Once a month, a speaker visits campus to talk to CPHS students, faculty and staff.

In addition, the 30 student leaders in Drake's CPHS organizations, fraternities and advisory board, meet for an hour before the speaker presents to talk about leadership.

"We want students to take what they learn in small group meetings and what they hear from speakers and use that in working with their organizations," said Allison Reich, director of student programs for CPHS. "It is a really great group of students who are motivated hard working. It's obvious why they are leaders in their organizations."

"The student leadership program is really great! It brings all the pharmacy student leaders together to collaborate and share ideas on their different styles of leadership," said Lindsay Krahmer, president of the student pharmacy group DRxUGS. "These sessions have helped me grow stronger as a leader and envision how I plan to use my leadership skills in the future as a professional pharmacist.

"This program exposes students to the very basics of leadership," Peerson added, "but also gives them additional tools, such as delivering powerful presentations and other useful ideas that will help them beyond the practice of pharmacy."

Ben Thankachan,
manager of talent services and
campus relations for Wal-Mart,
spoke to CPHS students,
faculty and staff in October
as part of the student leadership series.

The competition, which premiered in spring 2007 during National Entrepreneurship Week, challenges students to use entrepreneurial leadership skills to solve health care-related problems. In 2007 the winning business plan was an on-site clinic for genetic cancer testing, screening and early prevention plans.

Students compete in rounds where top performers advance to the next round. Each round requires either a presentation of a health care idea or impromptu solution to a health care problem or a business plan for a new health care endeavor. Jurors representing pharmacy, business and health care judge the participants. The top three winners are awarded cash prizes. Contest winners will compete in the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition with the opportunity to travel to attend the NCPA annual meeting with expenses paid by Wal-Mart's gift.