July 29, 2021

A Bloody Business: American Vaccine Production at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and…

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July 28, 2021

Watch 2021 Kreminar Videos

In May and June of 2021, AIHP hosted and helped organize the second annual Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs. The Summer 2021 “Kreminar” explored the…

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July 26, 2021

2021 AIHP Glenn Sonnedecker Prize Awarded

The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP) is pleased to announce that the 2021 AIHP Glenn Sonnedecker Prize has been awarded to Isaac C.K. Tan, a PhD candidate…

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July 22, 2021

AIHP Announces 2021 Board Election Results

AIHP is pleased to announce that Institute members have elected John Grabenstein, RPh, PhD, as the organization’s next president, and John E. Clark, PharmD, MS, FASHP, FFSHP, as a director….

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July 22, 2021

AIHP Receives Grant for Cannabis History Project

AIHP recently received a $2,000 “mini-grant” from Wisconsin Humanities, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to develop programming that traces the changing history of cannabis in…

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July 1, 2021

Metta Lou Henderson Receives AIHP Robert P. Fischelis Award

AIHP’s Board of Directors has awarded the 2021 AIHP Robert P. Fischelis Award to Metta Lou Henderson, PhD, for her extraordinary contributions to the Institute and the field of pharmacy…

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June 30, 2021

Remembering Glenn Sonnedecker

Glenn Sonnedecker (1917–2021), a leading historian of pharmacy and a former Director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, died on June 25, 2021 at the age of…

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June 18, 2021

AIHP Mourns the Passing of Alice Jean Matuszak

AIHP recently learned of the passing of Alice Jean Matuszak, a longtime member and former AIHP President. Dr. Matuszak was professor emerita of pharmaceutics and medicinal chemistry at the University…

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April 29, 2021

“Buried Alive in a Chemical Tomb”: The Story of the “Trip or Trap” Anti-Drug Playing Card Deck

This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and…

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April 27, 2021

AIHP Awards 2021 PhD Research Support Grants

AIHP Historical Director Dr. Lucas Richert has announced the awarding of two AIHP PhD Research Support Grants for 2021 to Miriam F. Lipton, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University,…

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