Student Organizations
Whenever possible, students are encouraged to develop some outside interest or activity in addition to academic study. A well balanced college career includes extracurricular involvement as well as classroom and laboratory work.
Students have opportunities to obtain military training; join social and honorary fraternities, sororities and clubs; participate in intercollegiate and recreational sports; the Purdue Bands and Musical Organizations; and a number of honorary societies. Women students may also participate in the Association for Women Students (AWS).
Both men and women students engage in the social activities centered in the Purdue Memorial Union, take part in the University Theatre, do staff work and writing for student publications, and enter into all the various extracurricular affairs of the campus.
All Student Organizations at Purdue University
Listing of all student organizations at Purdue
Pharmacy Student Organizations
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
Established in 2002, the Purdue University Student Chapter of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is a student organization that recognizes pharmaceutical sciences as a multi-disciplinary field integrating the disciplines of engineering and health, life, and physical sciences. The Chapter provides opportunities for academic growth, professional advancement, and leadership development related to all aspects of drug development in order to increase student awareness of career opportunities in the pharmaceutical sciences.
American Pharmacists Association, Academy of Students of Pharmacy
The Purdue chapter of the Academy is also affiliated with the Indiana Pharmacists Association (IPA). Membership is extended to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in pharmacy programs. Its objectives are to encourage and provide for student participation in national, state, and local association affairs; to encourage scholarly, scientific, and professional attitudes and performance among pharmacy students; to provide a forum for discussion of matters relating to these objectives; and to familiarize students with the conditions existing in and the problems confronting the pharmacy profession.
Kappa Epsilon
Pi Chapter of Kappa Epsilon is a national professional fraternity. Members are chosen on the basis of scholarship, character, and leadership. The object and purpose of this professional fraternity is to promote women in pharmacy and to foster professional consciousness. Membership provides opportunities for leadership development, community service, and fellowship.
Kappa Psi
Pi Chapter of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity is a professional fraternity. Each year a new group of men and women is pledged from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The pledges are selected by the members on the basis of character, leadership, scholarship, and interest in furthering the profession of pharmacy. The various activities encountered through Kappa Psi offer the active member fellowship with their school colleagues and an opportunity to become involved in community projects, both socially and professionally.
Mentoring Program
The Mentoring Program assists in the adjustment of prepharmacy students to both Purdue and the School of Pharmacy. Freshmen are matched with an upper class pharmacy student who provides support, encouragement, and guidance. All freshmen are eligible to participate. First, second, and third professional year pharmacy students serve as mentors.
Purdue Pharmacy Ambassadors (PPA)
The Purdue Pharmacy Ambassadors plan, implement, and evaluate the annual Pharmacy Job Fair in order to provide all students interested in pharmacy-related careers a basis on which to find employment opportunities, information on pharmacy careers or information on further education in their fields. The organization members also serve to represent the School at various University-related functions. Membership is open to all prepharmacy and pharmacy students.
Purdue Pharmacy Christian Students Association
The Purdue Pharmacy Christian Students Association is a non-denominational Christian organization open to students studying pre-pharmacy or in the professional pharmacy school. PPCSA is a Bible study in which a book of the Bible is read over the course of a semester and discussed weekly among the group. As well as gaining a better understanding of the Bible itself, we also discuss how the scriptures can be applied to our lives as future pharmacists and how Christianity and pharmacy can work hand in hand together.
Pharmacy Student Council
The Pharmacy Student Council serves as a communication resource between students and the faculty. It consists of two representatives from each class, including the prepharmacy students (elected by each class in November to serve one year terms), and representatives of the other student organizations within the School. In addition to their main goal to foster communication between students and faculty, the Pharmacy Student Council has been involved with improvements within the School such as providing lockers and adding vending machines to the student lounge area. Other service activities include sponsoring the Pharmacy First Nighter each fall and a curb cut to improve accessibility to the handicapped. The Pharmacy Student Council also serves as an advisory group in matters pertaining to educational, professional and extracurricular activities within the School. It meets regularly (usually twice a month) and is a ready sounding board for student ideas.
Phi Delta Chi
America's first professional fraternity in pharmacy. It is a co-ed fraternity and annually pledges both men and women who are either 2nd year prepharmacy students or enrolled in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Phi Delta Chi, a lifelong experience, promotes scholastic, professional, and social growth in its Brothers. We strive to provide quality service to our patients, thereby advancing public health and strengthening ourselves as health professionals. Phi Delta Chi encourages Brothers to develop as leaders, as excellent pharmacists, and as well-rounded citizens. Excellent pharmacists are the most important product of Phi Delta Chi.
Phi Lambda Sigma
The Alpha Rho Chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma promotes and recognizes the development of leadership qualities in pharmacy. The Society encourages participation in all pharmacy activities; members are selected by peer recognition. Students considered for membership must have completed 90 hours of scholastic work and have attained a scholastic grade point average of 2.50. Members have demonstrated dedicated service and leadership to the advancement of pharmacy. Faculty, professional staff, and alumni are also eligible for membership.
Prepharmacy Club
This organization is open to all students enrolled in the prepharmacy curriculum. The club sponsors events which promote social involvement among students. Assistance in scholastic achievement is also available.
Purdue Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
This organization, established in 1990, provides an opportunity for students to become knowledgeable about providing pharmaceutical care in hospitals and other institutions. In addition, students have the opportunity to observe pharmacy practice in an organized health care setting. Membership and participation in the Indiana Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is encouraged both as a student and upon graduation.
Rho Chi
Alpha Zeta Chapter of Rho Chi is a national honorary pharmaceutical society. Elegibility for membership is limited to upper class professional and graduate students in pharmacy and is based on high attainment in scholarship, character, personality, and leadership being limited to a maximum of 20% of each class. The initiation banquet for new members is held annually in the fall, while each spring Rho Chi sponsors an honors convocation to recognize scholastic achievement among all classes of pharmacy.
National Rho Chi Web Page
Society of Nuclear Pharmacy, Purdue Student Chapter
This organization, established in 1993, extends membership to students who are enrolled in prepharmacy or pharmacy curricula with an interest in nuclear pharmacy. The organization's objectives are to give the students a better opportunity to learn about the profession through contact with their peers and invited speakers and through participation in Society functions. The Society also serves to improve communications between the students and the companies and individuals involved in nuclear pharmacy practice.
Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA)
The Purdue student chapter of the National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) extends membership to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in pharmacy programs. Its main objectives are to provide mechanisms by which minority pharmacy students may participate in shaping their professional curricula; to develop within minority communities, a positive image of black, Latino, and other minority health professionals; and, to inform pharmacy students of opportunities and obligations as future health care professionals. To attain its purposes and objectives, SNPhA develops, conducts, and coordinates programs which provide services, research, and training in areas directly affecting the health care or minority peoples.
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