For the first time in 50 years, the CoP has a building fully dedicated to its use. Currently, the College maintains a presence in seven other buildings across the Health Sciences Center campus, with plans to reduce that footprint to three.

The renovation has six aspiration-guiding principles:

• To deliver a clearly defined and beautiful path forward—physically and academically

• To be welcoming and accessible to students, faculty, and community

• To support wellness and sustainability by encouraging growth and collaboration in the study of nature and science

• To utilize the latest technology to push innovation and access

• To promote flexibility and transparency within the department and embrace autonomy for faculty, staff, and students so that they may pursue their own journey and discoveries.

• To be grounded in the local culture with a foundation that is prepared to evolve over time

The renovation of the CoP building creates a welcoming, future-ready environment that strengthens our identity and long-term impact. A high-performance façade improves energy efficiency and increases natural daylight deep into the building, while modernized systems and flexible, collaborative spaces support innovation, learning, and community across the UNM campus.

A transformational new home for the College of Pharmacy offers meaningful naming opportunities across our teaching, research, student, and community spaces. These opportunities allow donors to create a legacy while directly supporting pharmacy education, research, and healthcare access for New Mexico.

Ranging from premier building and floor naming to classrooms, research labs, student success spaces, and community-focused areas. Naming opportunities provide options that align with a wide range of philanthropic interests and investment levels.

$3 million of philanthropic funding will help us breathe new life into our existing infrastructure.

Investing in student success at the UNM College of Pharmacy means opening doors for talented students who will become the next generation of pharmacists, scientists, clinicians, and health care leaders. Increased scholarship support reduces financial barriers, expands access to pharmacy education, and allows students to focus more fully on their academic, clinical, and professional growth. Philanthropic support also creates meaningful professional development opportunities, including leadership training, research experiences, conference participation, rural and underserved practice experiences, and career-building activities that prepare students to serve New Mexico and beyond. By supporting scholarships and student development, donors help ensure that College of Pharmacy graduates are well prepared to improve health, advance pharmacy practice, and meet the evolving needs of the communities they will serve.

Philanthropic support to offset travel, housing, fuel, and related expenses allows more College of Pharmacy students to participate in rural clinical rotations without facing undue financial hardship. These rotations are essential to preparing students to serve the diverse health care needs of New Mexico by exposing them to the realities of rural practice, including limited access to care, broader pharmacist responsibilities, interprofessional teamwork, and the importance of building trusted relationships within communities. For many students, these experiences also deepen their commitment to practicing in underserved areas after graduation. By reducing financial barriers to rural rotations, donors help strengthen the rural health care workforce pipeline and ensure that communities across New Mexico benefit from well-prepared pharmacy graduates.

$2 million of philanthropic funding will help us establish endowed chairs, professorships, and post-doctoral fellowships.

Endowed professorships and chairs are among the most powerful investments donors can make in the long-term excellence of the UNM College of Pharmacy. These positions provide sustained resources to recruit, retain, and recognize exceptional faculty whose work advances discovery, strengthens pharmacy education, mentors students and trainees, and improves health outcomes for New Mexico and beyond. In a competitive academic environment, endowed support allows the College to attract nationally recognized scholars and educators while also honoring current faculty whose contributions elevate the College’s reputation and impact.

Endowed positions are important because they create a lasting foundation for innovation and academic leadership. The flexible support associated with a professorship or chair can help faculty launch new research initiatives, support student and trainee involvement in scholarship, develop innovative teaching approaches, build collaborations across disciplines, and respond quickly to emerging needs in science, health care, and education. By investing in endowed professorships and chairs, donors help ensure that the College of Pharmacy remains a destination for outstanding faculty and a leader in preparing the next generation of pharmacists, scientists, and health care professionals.

$2 million of philanthropic funding will help us realize this initiative.

Philanthropic support for College of Pharmacy community outreach strengthens the College’s ability to bring health education, prevention services, and pharmacist expertise directly to communities across New Mexico. Through health fairs and community-based events, students and faculty can provide medication education, blood pressure and diabetes screening, immunization awareness, poison prevention education, cancer screening outreach, and guidance on safe medication use. These experiences also help students develop cultural humility, communication skills, and a deeper understanding of the social and geographic barriers that affect health. By investing in community outreach, donors help the College extend its public service mission while preparing students to become pharmacists who are responsive to the needs of the people and communities they serve.

Supporting the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center is a powerful way to advance health equity across the state. The Poison Center provides timely, expert guidance to families, health care professionals, first responders, schools, and communities when medication errors, poison exposures, substance-related concerns, or environmental hazards occur. Because this service is available regardless of location, income, insurance status, or ability to travel, it is an essential safety net for rural, frontier, tribal, and underserved communities. Philanthropic investment helps sustain and expand poison prevention education, public health response, and access to expert toxicology support, ensuring that all New Mexicans can receive trusted, potentially life-saving assistance when they need it most.

$1 million of philanthropic funding will help us realize this initiative.