The Alaska pharmacy schools were built for those who own a bachelor degree and want to pursue a four-year advanced degree of Doctor of Pharmacy (or PharmD) in Alaska. Please note that PCAT which stands for Pharmacy College Admissions Test is required for applicants for admissions to pharmacy schools, while Doctor of Pharmacy is a must for those who want to consider working as a pharmacist in Alaska.
This page lists all Alaska pharmacy colleges that are accredited by the ACPE – Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Included are complete contact information and website addresses of all Pharmacy schools, colleges, and universities within the state of Alaska.
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| 1 | University of Alaska and the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Address: Department 3375, Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 402-280-2662 E-mail: MackenzieBuxcel@creighton.edu Website: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/departments/pharmacy.cfm |
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Alaska
Alaska – the largest US state, on the northwestern outskirts of North America. Includes the Aleutian Islands.
Geography
The state is located in the extreme northwest of the continent, separated from the Chukotka Peninsula (Russia) by the Bering Strait, in the east it borders on Canada. It consists of the mainland and a large number of islands: the Alexander Archipelago, the Aleutian Islands, the Pribylov Islands, Kodiak Island. It is washed by the Arctic and Pacific oceans. On the Pacific coast – the Alaska Range; the inner part is a plateau with a height of 1200 m in the east to 600 m in the west; goes downhill. To the north is the Brooks Range, beyond which lies the Arctic Lowland.
Mount McKinley (Denali) (6194 m) is the highest in North America. There are active volcanoes. Glaciers in the mountains (Milespin).
In 1912, as a result of a volcanic eruption, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes arose. The northern part of the state is covered by tundra. To the south are forests. The state includes the island of Little Diomede in the Bering Strait, located at a distance of 4 km from the island of Great Diomede (Ratmanov Island), which belongs to Russia.
On the Pacific coast, the climate is temperate, maritime, relatively mild; in other areas – arctic and subarctic continental, with severe winters.
Administrative division
Unlike most other US states, where the main local administrative unit of local government is the county ( county), the name of the administrative units in Alaska is baro ( borough). Another difference is even more important – 15 baro and the municipality of Anchorage cover only part of the territory of Alaska. The rest of the territory does not have enough population (at least interested) to form local self-government. For the purposes of the census and for the convenience of administration, territories that are not included in any district are divided into so-called census areas. There are 11 such zones in Alaska.
History
Groups of Siberian tribes crossed the isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago. The Eskimos began to settle on the Arctic coast, the Aleuts settled in the Aleutian archipelago. The first Europeans to visit Alaska were Vitus Bering and Alexander Chirikov (1741). Alaska became a Russian colony in 1744 (the colony was called “Russian America”). A permanent Russian settlement was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island by Grigory Shelekhov (now the only entirely Russian settlement, Nikolaevsk on the Kenai Peninsula, was founded and settled in 1968 by Old Believers).
Alaska was bought by the United States from Russia as a result of negotiations between the Russian envoy E. A. Stekl and Secretary of State W. Seward in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars, which is about 2 cents per acre of land (bank check No. 9759). Five years later, gold was discovered. The region developed slowly until the start of the Klondike gold rush in 1896. It became a state in 1959. Since 1968, various mineral resources have been developed there, especially in the Prudhoe Bay area, southeast of Point Barrow. In 1977, an oil pipeline was laid from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez. In 1989, there was an oil spill from the Prince William tanker, which caused serious environmental pollution.
Economy
In the north, the extraction of crude oil (in the area of the Prudho Bay and the Kinai Peninsula; the Alieska oil pipeline 1250 km long to the port of Valdez), natural gas, coal, copper, iron, gold, zinc; fishing; rearing reindeer; logging and hunting; air transport; military air bases. Tourism.
Oil production has played a huge role since the 1970s. after the discovery of deposits and the laying of the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
Population
Although the state is one of the least populated in the country, many new residents moved here in the 1970s, attracted by vacancies in the oil industry and in transportation, and in the 1980s the population growth was more than 36 percent.
Population growth in recent decades:
- 1990 – 550,000 inhabitants;
- 2004 – 648,818 inhabitants;
- 2005 – 663,661 inhabitants.
In 2005, the population of Alaska increased by 5,906 people, or 0.9%, compared to the previous year. Compared to 2000, the population increased by 36,730 people (5.9%). This figure includes natural population growth of 36,590 people (53,132 births minus 16,542 deaths) since the last census, as well as an increase due to migration of 1,181 people. Immigration from outside the United States added 5,800 to Alaska’s population, while internal migration decreased it by 4,619. The population density in Alaska is the lowest of all US states.
About 75 percent of the population is white, native to the United States. There are about 86 thousand indigenous people in the state – Indians (Atabaskans, Haidas, Tlingit, Simshians), Eskimos and Aleuts. There are also a small number of Russian descendants living in the state. Major religious groups include Catholics, Orthodox, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists. For the past 20 years, the state has traditionally voted Republican.