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Dr. Rebecca Gryka, Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences,\u00a0came to Cedarville as a key founding faculty member in the School of Pharmacy after working in Southern California for 40 years. She played a pivotal role in launching the School of Pharmacy in fall 2012, and the School of Pharmacy is grateful\u00a0for her influence on so many lives during her time at Cedarville.\u00a0She will retire at the end of the 2017-18 academic year.<\/p>\n
“I am so very thankful that God brought Dr. Gryka to Cedarville at a key time in our School’s development. She has played a major role in our success,” said Dr. Marc Sweeney, Dean of the School of Pharmacy.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Gryka will be remembered for one of her favorite sayings, \u201cJust because it\u2019s hard, doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s not what God wants you to do\u201d and her commitment to follow\u00a0Hebrews 12:1-3, “to run with endurance the race set before us.” Her passion for teaching and investing in the lives of students is evident in graduate student Stephanie Wu’s\u00a0testimony:<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Gryka has impacted me in ways I will carry through the next\u00a0three years\u00a0years I have here at Cedarville. In my last year of undergrad, I questioned my abilities and strengths, but mostly I began to\u00a0question if I had made a huge mistake going down the path of pharmacy. I questioned if I had heard God wrong and if this was all against His will for me. That’s when I met Dr.Gryka. She sat with me every week as I walked through each system of the body. Some grades were lower than others, but here I am, a P1. I am continually thankful for her constant reminder that this will always be a battle, but to get up and try every day, no matter the outcome. She has been my cheerleader in the stands and my prayer warrior when I feel weak. Her passion\u00a0for teaching and leading me is why I owe so much of where I am today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Gryka was instrumental in the School of Pharmacy receiving full accreditation status and meeting every benchmark to pass in June 2016. She\u00a0coordinated the clinical trial for Venture Therapeutics Projects and has contributed greatly to research and scholarship while at Cedarville. She also earned the Ohio Excellence in Education Award in 2016.\u00a0She will cherish her memories of contributing to the success of the first graduating class in 2016 and is thankful for the time she had at Cedarville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Rebecca Gryka, Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences,\u00a0came to Cedarville as a key founding faculty member in the School of Pharmacy after working in Southern California for 40 years. She played a pivotal role in launching the School of Pharmacy in fall 2012, and the School of Pharmacy is grateful\u00a0for her influence on so… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/benchmarx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}