Pharmacy Hall

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is the fourth-oldest school of pharmacy in the country. Since its founding in 1841, the School has been recognized as a place of innovation. The School has a highly progressive history, from graduating its first female pharmacist in 1898 to supporting the entrepreneurial efforts of its graduates, including the founders of Noxzema and Sharp & Dohme (now Merck) and a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner. Today, the School is building on its past and proactively looking for opportunities to transform pharmacy education, research, and practice in order to best prepare current and future pharmacy professionals to meet the needs of our ever-changing health care environment.

Moving forward, the School is emphasizing the concept of Pharmapreneurship™, which the School believes in so strongly that we trademarked the term in 2018. The idea that education, practice, research, and community service can and must intersect with innovation informs all the activities at the School. This can be seen in the many new developments underway, including the design and upcoming construction of the “Pharmapreneurs’ Farm”— a hub for brainstorming, idea fermentation, and exploration — in the Ellen H. Yankellow Grand Atrium of Pharmacy Hall, and the expanding number of pharmapreneurial master’s degrees.