May 23, 2022: The USC College of Pharmacy has received a $20,000 scholarship from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation for innovative and diverse educational programs. Read more... 

May 11, 2022: Pamela Hite, KPIC program coordinator, was presented the Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation Award by the College of Pharmacy Honors and Awards Committee on May 11, 2022. This annual award recognizes faculty and staff engaged in entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation above and beyond their faculty or staff job description. Read more...

April 22, 2022: The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center and the USC College of Pharmacy partner with a variety of community-based pharmacy practice sites to offer post-graduate residency training positions. Read more... 

April 22, 2022: The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center held its annual pharmacy ownership business plan competition in April with seven teams of students competing. Read more... 

January 12, 2022: KPIC was honored to host Jordan Ballou, Pharm.D., January 11-12, 2022. Dr. Ballou has built a national reputation as a leader in the pharmacy profession. She is actively involved in community pharmacy practice transformation within the state of Mississippi. Her advice and expertise are highly sought after from community pharmacy practitioners and faculty. On January 11, Dr. Ballou shared her career journey with 45 student pharmacists and visited with pharmacy owners from THE Pharmacy, Hawthorne Pharmacy, Yorkville Pharmacy, and Ehrhart Pharmacy. On January 12, Dr. Ballou met with COP student leaders, administrators and faculty as well as pharmacy owners from Riley Drugs and Medicine Mart-West Columbia.

November 18, 2021: The annual Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center Career Summit provides students the chance to explore non-traditional pharmacy career options and to expand their professional network. Read more... 

October 20, 2021: KPIC was honored to host Lakesha Butler, Pharm.D., as speaker for two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conferences. Dr. Butler is a highly recognized and sought-after national speaker on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is the CEO and Founder of the Dr. Lakesha Butler, LLC Consulting Agency. As a Certified Diversity Facilitator, her mission is to dismantle and disrupt inequities and injustice in health care and higher education. Dr. Butler met, virtually, with 23 COP faculty, staff, and preceptors on September 22, 2021. On October 20, 2021, she met, virtually with 78 students.

October 18, 2021 (Academic Pharmacy Now): The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center pushes students to find the gaps in the profession and fill them with radical roles. Read more...

June 3, 2021 (APhA): The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announced the results of elections for the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS), Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM), and the APhA-APPM Special Interest Groups. Read more...

May 21, 2021: The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center has been a launching pad for initiatives that have pushed the USC College of Pharmacy to new heights since September 2010. Read more... 

May 12, 2021: Patti Fabel, executive director of the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center, received the Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation, presented by the Office of the Provost. Read more... 

March 30, 2021: The Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation honors USC faculty who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to best teaching practices and innovative learning strategies. Read more... 

December 16, 2020: Associate Professor Patti Fabel, Executive Director of the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center at USC, has been named an American Pharmacists Association 2021 fellow. Read more... 

October 20, 2020: Pharmacy and pre-pharmacy students spent a recent Saturday learning about non-traditional career opportunities as the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center held its Annual Career Summit. Read more... 

August 27, 2020 (Scribble SC): The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center aims to transform pharmacy education at the USC College of Pharmacy by creating a culture of interdisciplinary learning and collaboration amongst faculty, students, and the practice community.

June 30, 2020: Pharm.D. student Ellis Ann Frank writes a student perspective blog post on adapting to COVID-19 for the Flip the Pharmacy initiative. Read more...

June 18, 2020: Lou Kennedy, co-founder of the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center and president of Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation, was named a 2020 honoree of South Carolina ETV's “Women Vision SC” initiative. Read more...

June 1, 2020: Pharm.D. student Hope Snell advocates for point-of-care testing using CLIA-waived tests in a student blog post for the Flip the Pharmacy initiative. Read more...

May 13, 2020: Pharmacy student Mary Creek wowed the judges with her business plan and came away the winner of the 2020 Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center Business Plan Competition. Read more... 

May 12, 2020: Michael Scruggs grew up working in his hometown corner drugstore where he learned that being a pharmacist means so much more than just dispensing medications. Read more... 

February 9, 2020 (Post and Courier): It’s Lou Kennedy's drive and ability to get things done that make her the Midlands business leader who groups approach for community projects. Read more...

November 20, 2019 (Pharmacy Times): The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) recently sponsored a study entitled, “Evaluation Of Enhanced Community Pharmacy Services.” Research was done by Patti Fabel, Pharm.D., and Gene Reeder, Ph.D., at the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center in partnership with The University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, and enhanced pharmacy services were carried out by John Pugh, Pharm.D., and Carmen Monts, Pharm.D, at Prosperity Drug in Prosperity, South Carolina. Read more...

June 28, 2019 (Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation): Ernst & Young (EY) honored Nephron Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Lou Kennedy as Health Care Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast. Read more...

June 19, 2019: Patti Fabel is known by her peers in the association as an influential member who works to guide the profession of pharmacy to become a stronger profession. Read 

May 22, 2019: Since its founding in 2011, the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center has positively impacted the lives and career aspirations of hundreds of University of South Carolina students and alumni. Read more... 

April 2019: Executive Director Patti Fabel publishes an article in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA) along with fourth-year Pharm.D. student Tyler Wagner and former faculty members Bryan Ziegler and Bob Davis. Read more...

Summer 2017 (Carolina's Future, pg. 6): The majority of the students who earn pharmacy degrees from the University of South Carolina will build careers as retail pharmacists. But, as the future of health care and business changes, so does the career path for pharmacists. Read more...

January 1, 2016 (Pharmacy History): Robert Davis, a professor at the Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, piloted the concept of pharmacists embedded on health care teams back in the 1970s. Read more...

March 31, 2015: Pharmacy students, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are getting full-immersion, hands-on training in sterile compounding in the new Aseptic Compounding Experience (ACE) Lab. Read more...

March 15, 2014 (The State): The University of South Carolina’s College of Pharmacy is opening a facility aimed at improving the safety of compounded medications after more than 750 people in 20 states, including three in South Carolina, were sickened in 2012 by contaminated steroid injections. Read more...

March 14, 2014 (WLTX): The University of South Carolina's College of Pharmacy opened a new lab Friday that could indirectly save your life one day. The Aseptic Compounding Experience Lab will give pharmacy students, and practicing pharmacists, hands-on training in making compounded medications. Read more...

March 14, 2014: Prompted by medication safety concerns after the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak at a New England lab that killed 64 and sickened hundreds, the South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP) at the University of South Carolina is opening a state-of-the-art sterile medication compounding facility that is one of only a few of its kind in the country. Read more...

October 8, 2010 (The Catalyst): Two University of South Carolina alumni with a desire to transform pharmacy education and practice are making a $30 million gift to the university’s South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP), the second-largest in the university’s history. Read more...

September 17, 2010: Announced September 17 by University President Harris Pastides, a $30M gift from USC alumni William and Lou Kennedy of Orlando, Fla., will establish The William P. and Lou W. Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center. Watch the announcement...