The University Of Tennessee Health Science Center

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Memphis, TN

University Website:  www.uthsc.edu/

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is a public medical school in Memphis, Tennessee. It includes the Colleges of Health Professions, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Since 1911, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has educated nearly 57,000 health care professionals. As of 2010, US News and World Report ranked the College of Pharmacy 17th among American pharmacy schools.

Graduate medical education programs are located in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville; family medicine centers in Jackson, Knoxville, and Memphis; dentistry clinics in Bristol, Jackson, and Union City, as well as public and continuing education programs across the state. The Health Science Center is part of the statewide, multi-campus University of Tennessee system.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center also runs the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Systems, which celebrated its 53-year anniversary in 2016. The center educates on sterile product preparation, develops a basis for parenteral medications, and provides services to the pharmaceutical industry and individuals. Hands-on training in aseptic processing is also offered four times a year at the facility.

Areas of emphasis are the university's research efforts, which receive nearly $100 million in yearly grants from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations. The Translational Science Research Building and the Cancer Research Building house collaborative research teams for the UTHSC campus.

The school was segregated for most of its history. The first black student, Alvin Crawford, graduated in 1964.

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College Scholarships

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Peyton Manning Scholarship

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The Peyton Manning Scholarship is available to first - year students at The University of Tennessee. You must be enrolled in the honors program to be eligible for this award.

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Peyton Manning Scholarship

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The Peyton Manning Scholarship is available to first - year students at The University of Tennessee. You must be enrolled in the honors program to be eligible for this award.

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