Mark Farrage, a third year pharmacy student at Creighton University, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Lou Carta Scholarship from the Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association. The award is $1000 to be applied to Mark's fall 2009 tuition. Finalists included students from Creighton, UNMC, Drake, and Iowa. Committee members were Lou Carta, Tom Fox, Andi Crossley, Alicia Vanden Bosch, and Tony Beraldi. SIPA has awarded the scholarship annually for the past 10 years, since 2000.
The committee members are always impressed by the broad range of activities that the applicants are involved in, as well as their academic performance. For more information about the scholarship, please go to the web site at http://www.siparx.org/ and click on "Lou Carta Scholarship" at the top.