{"id":16206,"date":"2016-10-05T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sop.washington.edu\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:37:57","slug":"class-of-2017-honors-professor-doug-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/class-of-2017-honors-professor-doug-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2017 Honors Professor Doug Black"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UW School of Pharmacy’s PharmD Class of 2017 have decided to honor Dr. Doug Black with\u00a0a gift to his endowment <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UW School of Pharmacy’s PharmD class of 2017 announced their class gift this week. They will work together over the coming year to make a P4 Class Giving Fund<\/a>\u00a0donation to the\u00a0Doug Black Endowed PharmD Award, a scholarship that is given each year to a UW School of Pharmacy student who exemplifies an outstanding commitment to learning and the profession of pharmacy.<\/p>\n

“Scholarships are a huge benefit to current students as they allow us to participate in conferences and other events like Medical Brigades that we would have difficulty affording otherwise,” they shared in their announcement. “These experiences are invaluable to us and often help shape our future practice.”<\/p>\n

The Class wanted to honor Dr. Doug Black who has been an important influence on them, both as a professor and a mentor, and has pushed them\u00a0to become better students and pharmacists. “Doug has consistently gone above and beyond what is expected of a professor. He has always been happy to take time out of his day to meet with students and help in any way that he can. Last year, as the course master for our infectious disease therapeutics course, Doug would send out emails daily encouraging us in our studies and reminding us that no matter how hard things seemed, we could handle it. Doug\u2019s emails were often what we would wake up to in the morning, as he gets up most mornings at 4 am, much earlier than any of his students.”<\/p>\n

Below are a few excerpts from some of those emails that represent what a truly caring and encouraging professor he is:<\/p>\n