Mary Lynn McPherson turns pain into smiles. As professor and vice chair of academic affairs at the School of Pharmacy, McPherson does this for students, patients, and faculty colleagues.

Alexander MacKerell Jr., the Grollman-Glick Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the School of Pharmacy, is known to thousands of scientists around the world as the man who built his research program in force field development to an elite level.

Professor emeritus is internationally recognized for his research and mentoring in pharmaceutics, drug process engineering, and in dietary supplements.

Eddington becomes third person to hold this important position since organization’s inception in 2007